vioro.co presents DESIRE

Desire describes the distance between where you are and where you want to be. But can we live without desire? Or is desire an essential force for betterment and growth?

How is desire born, struggled with, consummated, enjoyed, sustained, abandoned, lost, or perhaps overcome? 

How do we react when our desires are dashed or obliterated? 

What changes when our desires are fulfilled?

Explore the varied shades of desire, as Margaret Plummer and Thomas Victor Johnson weave their way through a metaphorical life cycle, from birth to oblivion. Featuring works by Mahler, Berg, Debussy, Britten, Fauré, Copland, Schumann, Berlioz and Barber.

• Programme

  Samuel Barber
  Sure on this shining night

  Benjamin Britten
  A Charm

  Robert Schumann
  Seit ich ihn gesehen, glaub’ ich blind zu sein

  Gustav Mahler
  Liebst du um Schönheit

  Gabriel Fauré
  Après un rêve

  Samuel Barber
  The secrets of the Old

  Alban Berg
  Im Zimmer

  Hector Berlioz
  L’absence

  Alban Berg
  Schilflied

  Benjamin Britten
  At the mid hour of night

  Samuel Barber
  The Desire for Hermitage

  Claude Debussy
  La mer est plus belle

  Benjamin Britten
  The Highland Balou

  Benjamin Britten
  How sweet the answer

  Claude Debussy
  La flûte de Pan

  Samuel Barber
  The Monk and His Cat

  Samuel Barber
  Heart, we will forget him

  Hector Berlioz
  La spectre de la rose

  Samuel Barber
  A Nun Takes the Veil

  Samuel Barber
  The world feels dusty

  Gustav Mahler
  Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Bar @ 19:00 with drinks and snacks available from the sustainably-sourced Lobe Block kitchen.

Music @ 20:00 with a perfectly placed interval.