Kurt Weill
"Berlin im Licht" für Mezzosopran und Orchester (Text von Bertolt Brecht, Ochesterfassung von Otto Lindemann)
Hanns Eisler
Suite No. 2 for orchestra op. 24 from the music for the film "Niemandsland"
Alfred Schnittke
Suite for orchestra from music to the film "Die Glasharmonika"
Paul Hindemith
“Neues vom Tage” - Overture with concert closing
Kurt Weill
“Die Dreigroschenoper” (excerpts)
Frank Strobel
Conductor
Frank Strobel - Conductor

Frank Strobel is one of the internationally accomplished conductors with a stylistically incredibly diverse repertoire. For years he has been one of the most important protagonists in the interdisciplinary field of film and music, through his commitment film with live orchestra has found its way into leading opera houses and concert halls. Strobel works as a consultant for the silent film programme of ZDF/arte and in 2000, together with Beate Warkentien, founded the cultural institution EUROPEAN FILMPHILHARMONIC INSTITUTE, which under his artistic direction has rendered outstanding services to highly acclaimed film in concert productions.
Strobel is also in demand internationally for performances of music by the late-Romantic composers Franz Schreker, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Siegfried Wagner. The great Russian-born composer Alfred Schnittke, came to see Strobel as an ideal interpreter of his works. To the present day, Frank Strobel has the editing rights to his compositions.
2014 Strobel conducted the world premiere of Philippe Schoeller’s newly-written score for Abel Gance’s film J’accuse with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. In 2016 Frank Strobel realised the reconstructed film Iwan Grozny by Sergei Eisenstein, for the first time performed with the complete music in its’ original orchestration by Sergei Prokofiev with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) at the Musikfest Berlin, followed by a performance with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in 2017.
Frank Strobel is the designated chief conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester. He enjoys close and long lasting relationships with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, with the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Cologne and Paris Philharmonie as well as the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Veit Schubert
narrator
Anja Petersen
Sopran (Polly)
Katharina Hohlfeld
Sopran (Jenny, Lucy)
Hildegard Rützel
Mezzo-soprano
Hildegard Rützel
Mezzosopran (Mrs. Peachum)
Volker Nietzke
Tenor (Maceath)
Johannes Schendel
Bass (Mr. Peachum)
Jonathan E. de la Paz Zaens
Bass (Tiger Brown)
Solisten des RIAS Kammerchores
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Lights off, sound on
A foretaste of the 100th RSB season in 2023/2024 is offered by two concerts at the Haus des Rundfunks that bring radio, music and orchestral history to life in a sensual way by presenting music that was composed or specially arranged for the new medium almost one hundred years ago. This includes works by Hindemith and Weill – two radio pioneers par excellence. In particular, the excerpts from the “Threepenny Opera” will be heard in the version that Bertolt Brecht recorded in 1930 especially for the radio medium, complete with connecting commentary.
In addition, there will be selected music by Eisler and Schnittke because – although composed later – they also follow the principle of making what is usually visible audible. The excerpts from the two film scores, which were as new as they were experimental at the time, captivate with their extraordinary musical impressiveness.
Live radio broadcast DLF Kultur 11
Kooperation roc
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Weill, Eisler, Hindemith, Schnittke