Fischer Z

Named after a lyric from Magazine’s ground-breaking hit, ‘Shot By Both Sides’, TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING tells a musical story of how the UK’s post-punk scene evolved from the spirit of 1977 and the arrival of key labels such as Fast, Rough Trade, Zoo, Factory and Cherry Red.

Orpheus was the child of Apollo, the god of music, and Calliope, the eldest of the muses. With his playing, he was able to enchant people and to tame wild animals. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most beautiful mythological stories about the power of love. No wonder Claudio Monteverdi, the father of early opera, chose this story as the theme of his legendary work. During this musical journey, we are led by the muses, and following in Orpheus’s footsteps, we reach the goal of the music marked out by Monteverdi: to touch the soul of listeners, to awaken their feelings, and to speak to the heart.

Busoni’s opera, Doktor Faust is unquestionably one of the experimental operatic masterpieces of the twentieth-century. The composer wrote his own libretto and worked on the composition for nearly two decades, although it remained unfinished on his death in 1924. Doktor Faust was completed the following year by Busoni’s pupil, Philipp Jarnach.