The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble by Weill, Hindemith, Strauss II, Ab (2024/2024), Carnegie Hall, New York City, Vereinigte Staaten

A chamber ensemble handpicked from The Met Orchestra explores the Weimar Republic’s “Golden Twenties.” This program highlights the era’s incredible contradictions and the thrillingly divergent, thriving artistic movements that came into shape as the republic approached catastrophe. Hear music from Weill and Brecht’s smash hit, the soon-to-be-banned Threepenny Opera. Hindemith’s grinning reconstruction of Wagner is paired with the well-loved Kammermusik No. 1, which offers excitement of a more sincere, if not significantly less eccentric nature. Also included are two of Schoenberg’s arrangements of Johann Strauss Jr., in which the “father of atonality” gave reverential treatment to Vienna’s beloved “Waltz King.”