Franui: Ghost Variations for Actors, Singers and Band

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A recital of German 'lieder', or songs, with theatrical elements featuring Tyrollean group Musicbanda Franui, baritone Otto Katzameier and actor Daniel Christensen, “Schau lange in den dunklen Himmel” pays homage to the work of Robert Schumann.

The Ghost Variations, his final work before being admitted to a psychiatric clinic, makes up the musical substance of the evening along with other musical sleep and dream works. The abysmal realm of unlived dreams, longings and hopes—between delirium and reality, melancholy and humour, tragedy and comedy—is explored in association with texts by Swiss poet Robert Walser who shares a similar style, Viennese Heinz Janisch, Emil Cioran, and others. Musicbanda Franui performs with utmost virtuosity on the instruments found in the Festtagskapelle of its native village including hammer dulcimer, zither, and a choir of wind instruments. The instrumental performance of the Alpine Banda, its musically lively interpretations of Schubert, Brahms and Mahler songs is as melancholy as it is beguilingly beautiful.