For Georg Nigl, the art song should always negotiate the contradictions and danger zones of our time. Together with Nicholas Ofczarek and Vladimir Jurowski , he embarks on the adventure of Karl Kraus' texts with the music of Gustav Mahler and Hanns Eisler in »Die letzten Tage der Menschlichkeit?«, in other words, the creations of three artists who, over a hundred years ago, viewed the everyday life of war and its consequences for the individual as if under a burning glass. The ruthlessness of their gaze still makes you shiver today...
Program
The last days of humanity?
Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht
Ballad of the Waterwheel
Hanns Eisler / Friedrich Hölderlin
To the Hoffnung
Gustav Mahler / Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Primordial Light
Gustav Mahler / The Boy's Magic Horn
The Tambourg'sell
Hanns Eisler / Berthold Brecht
Saying 1939
Gustav Mahler / The Boy's Magic Horn
The earthly life
Gustav Mahler / Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Where the beautiful trumpets blow
Hanns Eisler / Kurt Tucholsky
The ditch
Gustav Mahler / Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Revelge
Hanns Eisler / Peter Altenberg
And at last the longing dies
Dmitri Shostakovich
Prelude Op 34 No 14