Classical Music
»The Art of Being Human«
Wednesday, 12/03/2025 / 08:00 PM - 09:20 PM / Elbphilharmonie (Großer Saal)
- from 13.00€ to 53.00€
Human existence is a contradictory business. »The Art of Being Human« explores the complex impacts of this trite fact. The Grammy award-winning viola da gamba ensemble Phantasm thereby ensures a musical performance at the very highest level. Its members put their instrumental mastery into operation for an evening in which old sounds and contemporary dance blend into an inseparable unit and jointly try to fathom the darkest recesses of the human condition.
Choreographer Sommer Ulrickson and allround visual artist Alexander Polzin create a multidisciplinary framework in which music and movement come together, connect with each other, hook into each other, collide and cross fertilise.
Under the leadership of Laurence Dreyfus, Phantasm plays music of English masters, such as John Dowland, Henry Purcell and William Byrd. At the same time, the musicians interact in the most diverse way with the dancers, who move as partners and yet adversaries around sculptures by the Berlin artist Alexander Polzin. The result is a staged concert evening, which makes full use of the potential of this currently popular format!
PERFORMERS
Phantasm chamber ensemble
Laurence Dreyfus viola da gamba and direction
Camille Jackson dance
Amie-Blaire Chartier dance
Saeed Hani dance
Sami Similä dance
Rodolfo Piazza dance
Sommer Ulrickson choreography
Alexander Polzin visual concept
PROGRAM
»The Art of Being Human«
An interdisciplinary performance with music by John Dowland, William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons and others
Christopher Tye
In Nomine »Trust«
Christopher Tye
In Nomine a 5 »Crye«
William Byrd
Fantasia à 4
William Byrd
Fantasia à 5 »Two Parts in One in the 4th Above«
Elway Bevin
Browning à 3 »The Leaves Be Green«
Thomas Tomkins
Alman à 4
William Byrd
Prelude and Ground à 5 »The Queen’s Goodnight«
John Dowland
Dowlands Lamentation: Semper Dowland semper dolens P 9
Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia à 5 »In nomine«
William Lawes
Consort Set Nr. 1 à 5 g-Moll
Matthew Locke
Suite Nr. 1 à 3 c-Moll
Orlando Gibbons
The Silver Swan
Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia Nr. 4 à 2
Henry Purcell
Fantasia Nr. 1 à 3 d-Moll Z 732
Henry Purcell
Fantasie Nr. 11 à 4 G-Dur Z 742
Henry Purcell
Fantasia Nr. 7 à 4 c-Moll Z 738
Henry Purcell
Fantasia Z 745 »Fantasia upon One Note«
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