Carnegie Hall presents Ensemble Modern
$39-$49
- Amarcord
- Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano
- Heinz Karl (HK) Gruber, conductor
Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Incidental Music from Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11
Arnold Schoenberg — Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene ("Accompaniment to a Film Scene"), Op. 34 (arr. Johannes Schöllhorn)
Kurt Weill — Die sieben Todsünden ("The Seven Deadly Sins") (arr. for 15 players by HK Gruber & Christian Muthspiel)
The Weimar Republic's urgent blend of desperate defiance and vast artistic possibility come together in this Ensemble Modern performance. It opens with Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 1, a masterstroke of postmodernism. Erich Korngold's hit suite from Much Ado About Nothing offers an early glimpse at his wildly successful partnership with Max Reinhardt, more than a decade before they fled Europe and made Hollywood history. Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene is—almost certainly intentionally—not so much a film "accompaniment" as it is a full-fledged main attraction. Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta joins in HK Gruber and Christian Muthspiel's brand-new arrangement of The Seven Deadly Sins, a biting satire composed the same year Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's works were banned in their native Germany.
About Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern is an international ensemble dedicated to performing and promoting the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries.
https://www.ensemble-modern.com/enAbout Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall's mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences.
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