Philharmonia Orchestra - Weimar Berlin: To the Cabaret!

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