SUN, WIEGERS UND DAS MKO

Night has so many faces! There is the beguiling darkness of the soul inherent in Enno Poppe’s song cycle ‘Augen’ (Eyes), based on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler. The 25 miniatures – the shortest just eight seconds long, and yet each a whole world of love and pain in its own right – are brought to life by dedicatee Sarah Maria Sun. Later, the soprano slips into the role of the man-killing femme fatale in Alban Berg’s ‘Lulu Suite’ and leads the MKO deep into the lust and horror of the night. Anton Webern’s ‘Langsamer Satz’ for string quartet is late-romantic and wistful, yet points to the future. What a contrast to the string serenade by the Salzburg court conductor Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – a cheerful piece of evening entertainment music in which the night watchman’s song ‘Hört, ihr Herren, lasst euch sagen’ is also sung.