HK GRUBER, KIRILL GERSTEIN & STUDENTS OF THE BARENBOIM-SAID AKADEMIE
Works by Eisler, Weill, and Schoenberg
HK GRUBER, KIRILL GERSTEIN & STUDENTS OF THE BARENBOIM-SAID AKADEMIE
Works by Eisler, Weill, and Schoenberg
Rarely in European history have art, entertainment, and political activism been more closely intertwined than in the years of the Weimar Republic. Composer, conductor, and singer HK Gruber, a renowned expert for this musical era, and pianist Kirill Gerstein explore a time of radical social change in songs by Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill. The program’s second half is dedicated to Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon, another musical manifesto against tyranny, based on a scathingly satirical poem by Lord Byron and written in 1942–3 during the composer’s American exile.
Concert program
Kurt Weill - Berlin im Licht
Hanns Eisler - Ballade von der Krüppelgarde Op. 18 No. 1
Hanns Eisler - Rückkehr zur Natur
Kurt Weill - Bilbao Song (from Happy End)
Kurt Weill - Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen (from Das Berliner Requiem)
Hanns Eisler - Zeitungsausschnitte Op. 11
Kurt Weill - Song von Mandelay (from Happy End)
Hanns Eisler - Ballade von den Säckeschmeißern Op. 22 No. 4
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Kurt Weill - Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens (from The Threepenny Opera)
Hanns Eisler - Aberglauben-Couplet (from the incidental music for Johann Nestroy's Höllenangst)
Hanns Eisler - Des is a politischer Herr (from the incidental music for Johann Nestroy'sEulenspiegel)
Kurt Schwertsik - Da Uhu schaud me so draurech au (Sieben Wienerlieder Op. 20)
Kurt Weill - Song of the Rhineland
Arnold Schoenberg - Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for String Quartet, Piano, and Reciter Op. 41
Hanns Eisler - Rosen auf den Weg gestreut
Duration
1 hour 45 minutes
Pauses
1
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Cast
Pierre Boulez Saal
Französische Straße 33 DBarenboim-Said Akademie
10117 Berlin
10.00 EUR - 55.00 EUR