Speak Low. Songs about masculinity and queer utopias

with Johannes Worms (baritone) und Nasti (piano)

Johannes Worms & Nasti
Johannes Worms & Nasti © Thi Thuy Nhi Tran
  • Doors open 18:30

  • Start 19:30

  • Interval

The art song – a mirror of a bygone era and yet surprisingly contemporary. Johannes Worms and Nasti invite you to an evening that looks at familiar and new works from an unusual perspective.

Performers

Johannes Worms baritone

Nasti piano, live electronics

Programme

Songs by Hugo Wolf, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Mahler, William Bolcom, Franz Schubert and others

Hugo Wolf
Auf dem grünen Balkon / Spanisches Liederbuch, Weltliche Lieder Nr. 5

Benjamin Britten
Sonnetto XXXVII / aus: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo op. 22

Gustav Mahler
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen / aus: Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Robert Schumann
Einsamkeit / aus: Sechs Gedichte von Lenau und Requiem op. 90

Dame Ethel Smyth
Nr. 1 The Clown / aus: Three Songs

Thierry Tidrow
Das Kind vor dem Spiegel

Benjamin Britten
Sonetto XXX / aus: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo op. 22

Franz Schubert
Memnon D 541

Lili Boulanger
Elle est gravement gaie / aus: Clairières dans le ciel

Kurt Weill
Speak Low / aus: One Touch of Venus

– Interval –

Aaron Copland
Why do they shut me out of Heaven? / aus: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

William Bolcom
Cabaret Songs based on texts by Arnold Weinstein / aus: Cabaret Songs nach Texten von Arnold Weinstein

Franz Schubert
Wandrers Nachtlied II D 768 »Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh«

Promoter: TheaterGemeinde Hamburg e.V.

In cooperation with TONALi

During your visit

Elbphilharmonie Plaza

A public viewing platform on the 8th floor of the Elbphilharmonie

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Food and Drink

Before the concert and in the interval

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Coughing, clapping, chatting

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