Australian-born Nick Cave arrived in West Berlin in the 1980s, desperate for prospects and broke, immersed himself in the drug world and becoming an underground legend.
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Vollgutlager Alte Kindl Brauerei
In the underground of the former Kindl Brewery, the 1988 album Tender Prey by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds experiences a romantic-symphonic synthesis as part of the Schall&Rausch festival:
The orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, under the direction of General Music Director James Gaffigan, combines the pitch-black longing for death of a post-punk junkie with the world-weariness of Franz Schubert's lonely wanderer.
Songs of farewell and aimlessness from the 1827 song cycle Winterreise resound with the immediate, chilling sound in Hans Zender's orchestral arrangement, repeatedly breaking through Nick Cave's dark sound with poignant longing.
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NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Tender Prey (arranged for orchestra)
HANS ZENDER [1936–2019] Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’, A Composed Interpretation for Tenor and Small Orchestra
HANS ZENDER [1936–2019] Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’, A Composed Interpretation for Tenor and Small Orchestra
Participating artists
James Gaffigan (Musikalische Leitung)
Matthias Klink (Tenor)
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin (Orchester)
Dates
February 2026
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