Here's a recording that doesn't introduce its star name until it's more than half over, and works quite well on that account. The understanding of the opening work, Alban Berg's six-movement Lyric Suite (1926), has evolved since scholars discovered a secret copy of the work that, despite its use of the abstract 12-tone system, outlines a quite specific program depicting the course of the composer's extramarital affair with Dorothea Robetin the previous year. The finale was even shown to contain an unsung melody, a setting ...
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Here's a recording that doesn't introduce its star name until it's more than half over, and works quite well on that account. The understanding of the opening work, Alban Berg's six-movement Lyric Suite (1926), has evolved since scholars discovered a secret copy of the work that, despite its use of the abstract 12-tone system, outlines a quite specific program depicting the course of the composer's extramarital affair with Dorothea Robetin the previous year. The finale was even shown to contain an unsung melody, a setting of a very relevant Baudelaire poem, and to be performable with the melody sung. That's what you get here in the "alternative version" performed by Renée Fleming with the Emerson String Quartet; the original textless version is also given. The album proceeds with much less common music: a set of Sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Op. 52, by Berg's contemporary Egon Wellesz, in a German translation by none other than Rainer Maria Rilke. They may be worth the price of admission for...
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Add this copy of Berg: Lyric Suite; Wellesz: Sonnets By Elizabeth to cart. $7.49, good condition, Sold by Zoom Books Company rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lynden, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Decca.
