Ute Lemper: Songs from the Broken Heart

Whether attracting or repelling her audiences, international chanteuse Lemper is never less than magnetic. Her style is perversely polymorphic: One moment she might tear into a song with predatory hunger, then she might purr out a dreamy croon or toss back her head for a brassy squeal of jazz. In her newest set, she applies her polyglot taste and aquiline glamour to songs by bards of loss including Charles Bukowski, Paulo Coelho, Leo Ferre, Jacques Brel, Nick Cave and Tom Waits.