"Pierrot lunaire" / Berlin Cabaret Songs 1900-1930 / Weill on Broadway The Sheridan Ensemble puts Schönberg's masterpiece in the context of other Berlin Cabaret songs from the first 30 years of the 20th Century. Photographic projections during the performance of "Pierrot lunaire" and atmospheric lighting enable a joining of the programme to a whole.
Arnold Schönberg
Pierrot lunaire, op. 21 A Melodrama Text: Otto Erich Hartleben (after Albert Giraud) Photo projections: Maurice Foxall
Berlin Cabaret Songs
by Mischa Spoliansky/ Marcellus Schiifer
Arnold Schönberg/Hugo Salus
Alexander Zemlinsky/Rudolf Alexander Schröder
Hanns Eisler/Bertolt Brecht
Friedrich Holländer
Stefan Wolpe
Mischa Spoliansky Interlude: "Sehnsucht" (violin/piano) (1929)
Kurt Weill on Broadway arranged for soprano and ensemble by Philip Mayers
Speak Low (Text: Ogden Nash) (1943) Mr Right (Text: Alan Jay Lerner) (1948) It never was you (Text: Maxwell Anderson) (1938) Sing me not a ballad (Text: Ira Gershwin) (1945) |