Birkbeck German Society

Calendar

Christmas Party

Friday 9th December 2011

Room MAL B30, Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street. Starts at 8pm

Handel House Museum - concert and visit

Thursday 29th December 2011

6-30 - 7-30pm at the Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1 (just off Bond Street).

Masumi Yamamoto performS a solo programme of works by JS Bach and Froberger on the Bruce Kennedy double-manual harpsichord. Tickets: £6.00 adults, £5.00 concessions.

Arrive early to get a chance to look round this fascinating little Museum before the concert starts (see their website: www.handelhouse.org).

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

January 8th 2012, Covent Garden Opera House

Another glorious Wagner production, this time live and in the flesh!
Royal Opera House website

Curzon Cinema - Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

Either 10th or 11th February 2012 (date to be confirmed)

Live link-up to the Metropolitan Opera House, New York for their production of the final instalment of, as Anna Russell says, 'the only opera that comes in the giant economy package'. This will be epic. Fabio Luisi conducting; Deborah Voigt as Brunhilde; Gary Lehman as Siegfried. 384 mins of total music drama.

Recent events

Hamlet

Sunday 4th December 2011

At the Barbican Theatre, Thomas Ostermeier's production of Marius von Mayenburg's translation, by Berlin's Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. In German with English surtitles.
See Barbican website.

Summer reading group 2011

The summer reading group took place on Thursday evenings in July and August 2011

The programme included:

MUSIC: Richard Strauss Vier letzte Lieder and Mahler Rückert Lieder
BOOKS: Wende literature - short stories - more details to follow
FILM: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
BOOKS: Heinrich Böll short stories
BOOKS: Alfred Döblin Berlin Alexanderplatz - opening sequence and selected passages

Read about a previous year's reading group.

Summer party

Tuesday 14th June 2011

Lieder concert

Friday 17 December 2010 at Wigmore Hall
Roman Trekel baritone
Malcolm Martineau piano

Songs by Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Loewe.

Weekend in Dresden

5th to 8th November 2010

An informal weekend, attended by a group of six Members of the Society. Rread all about it.

Lieder concert

Friday 5 November 2010 at Wigmore Hall
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano

Decade by Decade – 100 Years of German Song 1810–1910
1830–1840