Philharmonia Orchestra
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre
Sep 23, 2019
12:00 AM GMT+1
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About this concert
Step back in time with the Philharmonia Orchestra for a show bursting with the songs and street music of 1920s Berlin.
The spirit of the cabaret is reflected on-screen in still and moving images – of cartoons and paintings, scraps of films and photographs, and snatches from poems, stories, plays, diaries and letters.
Art created during the Weimar Republic was suffused with echoes of street life and popular culture: with noisy crowds in bustling streets and markets, the clatter of patriotic marches and political rallies, and, above all, the songs of the cabaret singers.
A programme of:
Welcome to Berlin: Including music from Wilhelm Grosz' jazz ballet Baby in der Bar and Friedrich Hollaender's Falling in Love Again from the film Der Blaue Engel
On the Street: Including music from Kurt Weill's show Marie Galante and Hans Eisler's score for the film Kuhle Wampe
Evening on the Town: Including Kurt Weill's satirical Berlin im Licht-Song and music from Paul Dessau's hilarious score for Walt Disney's animation Alice the Fire Fighter
Night Thoughts: Including Hans Esiler's devastating anti-war song Der Graben
To the Dance Hall: Including Tangos and jazz numbers by Erwin Schulhoff and Wilhelm Grosz and music from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical comedy Happy End
To the Cabaret: Including cabaret classics by Werner R Heymann, Paul Abraham and Freidrich Hollaender
-: Each scene also features readings from stories, poems and memoirs of the time
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Philharmonia Orchestra Biography
The Philharmonia is an orchestra based in London. Since 1995 it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the Resident Orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Bedford Corn Exchange.
The orchestra was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, and although it did give the occasional live concert, it was mainly intended to be a recording orchestra for EMI, where Legge was an executive. Thomas Beecham led its debut concert in 1946, but he was ruled out as a long-term conductor of the group when he tried to take control of the orchestra and change its name (Beecham instead went on to found his own Royal Philharmonic Orchestra).
In its early years, many prominent conductors made recordings with the ensemble, including Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler. However it was Herbert von Karajan (who was not allowed to work in Germany or Austria at the time because of his Nazi record) who was most associated with the Philharmonia in its early years. Karajan built the orchestra into one of the finest ensembles in the world, and made numerous recordings, including all the Beethoven symphonies.
The Philharmonia is the most recorded orchestra in the world, with over one thousand recordings. It has also been heard on the soundtracks of many films, performing the musical scores of such classics as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film version of Shakespeare's Henry V, and David Lean's film version of Oliver Twist (1948).
Read MoreThe orchestra was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, and although it did give the occasional live concert, it was mainly intended to be a recording orchestra for EMI, where Legge was an executive. Thomas Beecham led its debut concert in 1946, but he was ruled out as a long-term conductor of the group when he tried to take control of the orchestra and change its name (Beecham instead went on to found his own Royal Philharmonic Orchestra).
In its early years, many prominent conductors made recordings with the ensemble, including Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler. However it was Herbert von Karajan (who was not allowed to work in Germany or Austria at the time because of his Nazi record) who was most associated with the Philharmonia in its early years. Karajan built the orchestra into one of the finest ensembles in the world, and made numerous recordings, including all the Beethoven symphonies.
The Philharmonia is the most recorded orchestra in the world, with over one thousand recordings. It has also been heard on the soundtracks of many films, performing the musical scores of such classics as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film version of Shakespeare's Henry V, and David Lean's film version of Oliver Twist (1948).
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