Pierre Boulez Saal

Katrīna Paula Felsberga, Julius Drake & Burghart Klaussner

Concert

Französische Straße 33 D 10117 Berlin

Lied und Lyrik: Hölderlin Settings by Eisler, Ullmann, Britten, and others

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Concert program

Friedrich Hölderlin
Selected Poems and Texts, Reading in German

Viktor Ullmann
Sonnenuntergang

Viktor Ullmann
Der Frühling

Hanns Eisler
An die Hoffnung (Hölderlin Fragment No. 1)

Hanns Eisler
Andenken (Hölderlin Fragment No. 2)

Hanns Eisler
Elegie 1943 (Hölderlin Fragment No. 3)

Paul Hindemith
Sonnenuntergang

Hans Pfitzner
Abbitte Op. 29/1

Benjamin Britten
Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61

Hanns Eisler
Die Heimat (Hölderlin Fragment No. 4)

Hanns Eisler
An eine Stadt (Hölderlin Fragment No. 5)

Hanns Eisler
Erinnerung (Hölderlin Fragment No. 6)

Hermann Reutter
Sonnenuntergang

Hermann Reutter
Lebenslauf

György Ligeti
Der Sommer

Viktor Ullmann
Abendphantasie

Description

Until the beginning of the 20th century, few composers engaged with the works of Friedrich Hölderlin— it almost seems as if music needed to shed tonality and formal restraints to come to terms with the expressive power of the poet’s language. In this Lied und Lyrik program, Katrīna Paula Felsberga and Julius Drake explore the wide-ranging musical afterlife of Hölderlin in the “free future century” he envisioned in his 1806 Hymn to Freedom. Acclaimed actor Burghart Klaußner (The White Ribbon, The Crown) reads the original poems.