"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)

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