Proms Chamber Music 4: 8.08.16 - Håkan Hardenberger

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

13:00 Monday 8 Aug 2016
Cadogan Hall

Tobias Broström: Sputnik
Kurt Weill: songs, including from ‘The Threepenny Opera’ and ‘The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’
Kurt Schwertsik: Adieu Satie excerpts
HK Gruber: Three MOB Pieces


Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
HK Gruber, voice
John Constable, piano
Mats Bergström, banjo/guitar
Claudia Buder, accordion
Academy of St Martin in the Fields

The most intrepid of trumpeters, Håkan Hardenberger is joined by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and some special friends for a celebration of the music of Kurt Weill and of proponents of the subversive and at times irreverent 'Third Viennese School', among them Kurt Schwertsik and HK Gruber, who appears as vocalist.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mw06m

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When I was school in the 1960s, we had a science teacher who was a Kurt Weill fanatic. He translated Der Jasager, and produced the first English language performance.

Not really anything to do with this concert. . .

[VodkaDilc]

This will be my first visit to the Proms this year. It should be a good day - especially with Mahler to follow in the evening.

[doversoul1]

13.20
A very enjoyable concert so far. Just right for lunchtime.

[Serial_Apologist]

13.20
A very enjoyable concert so far. Just right for lunchtime.

Should have been there. Just too whacked after cycling 18 miles in the heat yesterday.

[PJPJ]

Just caught up with this concert - great fun indeed.

For the performance, the pianist was Helen Crayford, not John Constable.

Wish I'd been there...............