Works by Eisler, Weill, and Schoenberg
During the Weimar Republic, art, entertainment, and political engagement rarely went hand in hand as closely as they did then.
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HK GRUBER
With songs by Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill, composer, conductor, and chansonnier HK Gruber—a connoisseur of this period—and pianist Kirill Gerstein offer a musical look at this era of profound social change.
The second part of the evening features Arnold Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon — a work from his American exile (1942/43), based on a sharp-tongued poem by Lord Byron and intended as a musical statement against tyranny.
PROGRAM
- Kurt Weill - Berlin in Light
- Hanns Eisler - Ballad of the Cripple Guard, Op. 18 No. 1
- Hanns Eisler - Return to Nature
- Kurt Weill - Bilbao Song (from Happy End)
- Kurt Weill - At Potsdam Under the Oaks (from The Berlin Requiem)
- Hanns Eisler - Newspaper Clippings, Op. 11
- Kurt Weill - Song of Mandeley (from Happy End)
- Hanns Eisler - Ballad of the Sack Throwers, Op. 22 No. 4
- Kurt Weill - Song of the Inadequacy of Human Striving (from The Threepenny Opera)
- Hanns Eisler - Superstition Couplet (from the incidental music to Johann Nestroy's Fear of Hell)
- Hanns Eisler - That's a Political Master (from the incidental music to Johann Nestroy's Eulenspiegel)
- Kurt Schwertsik - The Eagle Owl Looks So Clear au (from Seven Viennese Songs, Op. 20)
- Kurt Weill - Song of the Rhineland
- Arnold Schoenberg - Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for Narrator, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 41
- Hanns Eisler - Roses Scattered on the Path
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Participating artists
Kirill Gerstein
HK Gruber
Studierende der Barenboim-Said Akademie
Dates
September 2025
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