Berg: Lulu Suite, Altenberg-Lieder / Abbado, Price
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Composer: Alban BergConductor: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Margaret Price
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1997-09-01
Music Label: Dg Imports
Soundtracks:
- Lulu-Suite: 1. Rondo. Andante (Introduzione) - Hymne. Sostenuto
- Lulu-Suite: 2. Ostinato. Allegro
- Lulu-Suite: 3. Lied der Lulu. Comodo
- Lulu-Suite: 4. Variationen. Moderato (Grandioso - Grazioso - Funebre - Affettuoso) - Tema. Subito a tempo moderato
- Lulu-Suite: Adagio. Sostenuto - Lento - Grave
- Drei Orchesterstucke op. 6: 1. Praludium. Langsam
- Drei Orchesterstucke op. 6: 2. Reigen. Anfangs etwas zogernd - Leicht beschwingt
- Drei Orchesterstucke op. 6: Marsch. Massiges Marschtempo
- Funf Orchesterlieder op. 4: 1. Seele, wie bist du schoner
- Funf Orchesterlieder op. 4: 2. Sahst du nach dem Gewitterregen den Wald
- Funf Orchesterlieder op. 4: 3. Uber die Grenzen des All
- Funf Orchesterlieder op. 4: 4. Nichts ist gekommen
- Funf Orchesterlieder op. 4: 5. Hier ist Friede
Music reviews of Berg: Lulu Suite, Altenberg-Lieder / Abbado, Price
Music Review: Breg doesn't get more enjoyable than this -- or dissonance in general
Rating: 5 Stars
This really is close to perfection. When Abbado made these recordings, in 1972, he was in a golden period of his career, leading the LSO with energy and brilliance (he became principal conductor seven years later), but more than that, he evoked a sense of joy and elan that I don't associate with the older Abbado. The secret to his thoroughly enjoyable alba Berg readings is that he knows that dissonance isn't supposed to hurt you. When Schoenberg claimed to have liberated the dissonance, he meant that it would join the other chords, the consonant ones, and become beautiful. If anyone can carry out that promise, it's Berg. Critics often point out his saving graces: a Mahlerian sense of tumultuous emotion, a profound romantic intensity, a melodic gift, and a natural link to all tings Viennese in the past. If you love those qualities, then performances of Berg's music should deliver them.
Abbado does. His way with dissonance doesn't hurt, because he finds the joy of a Strauss waltz or a high-stepping marching band or a jazzy riff on the saxophone, and he gives you that joy directly. The dissonance (meaning both the 12-tone system and atonality in general) is liberated only through enjoyment. On this CD the Lulu Suite will tell the tale. If you can respond to its neo-Mahlerian variety, expression, and sheer fun, the rest will come around more easily. There's no doubt that the Three Pieces for Orchestra are more daunting, and the Altenberg Lieder more aloof. At the time of its release, these impeccable readings by Margaret Price at her most lustrous were the only version in the catalog. We've had others since-- including a remake by Abbado himself with the Vienna Phil. -- and Jessye Norman's set is one to be reckoned with, but Price is more immediate and approachable.
The whole point to this CD is to take down the fences separating the ordinary listener form dissonance, and I think it succeeds, abetted by the LSO's great playing and DG's vivid analogue sound. A total winner.
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