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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 Rilke fans on that basis alone, but the music, in an idiom that only enthusiasts will be able to tell from early Berg, can stand on its own. It benefits greatly from the effective contrast between the dramatic, swooping Fleming and the intellectual, skittering Emerson. The final work, a soprano and string quartet arrangement of a song by the Austrian Jewish composer Eric Zeisl (later known for the score to The Postman Always Rings Twice), is still less familiar, but it's a gorgeous death ode a click or two closer to tonality than Wellesz, and it's sung to the hilt by Fleming. With lots of fresh music and impeccable performances, this is a winner for Second Viennese School devotees.
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Lyric Suite For String Quartet (1926) (Alban Berg)
Alban Berg, Composer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Lyric Suite for String Quartet (1926) (Alban Berg)
Alban Berg, Composer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Lyric Suite For String Quartet (1926) (Alban Berg)
Alban Berg, Composer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Alban Berg, Composer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Alban Berg, Composer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Alban Berg, Composer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Lyric Suite For String Quartet (1926) - Version with Soprano (Alban Berg)
Alban Berg, Composer - Renee Fleming, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stefan George, Translator - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Author, Original Text Author
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Sonnets From The Portuguese, Op. 52 (Egon Wellesz)
Renee Fleming, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rainer Maria Rilke, Translator - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Author, Original Text Author - Egon Wellesz, Composer - David Frost, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Sonnets From The Portuguese (Egon Wellesz)
Renee Fleming, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rainer Maria Rilke, Translator - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Author, Original Text Author - Egon Wellesz, Composer - David Frost, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Sonnets From The Portuguese, Op. 52 (Egon Wellesz)
Renee Fleming, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rainer Maria Rilke, Translator - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Author, Original Text Author - Egon Wellesz, Composer - David Frost, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Sonnets From The Portuguese (Egon Wellesz)
Renee Fleming, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rainer Maria Rilke, Translator - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Author, Original Text Author - Egon Wellesz, Composer - David Frost, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Renee Fleming, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rainer Maria Rilke, Translator - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Author, Original Text Author - Egon Wellesz, Composer - David Frost, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Komm, süsser Tod (Eric Zeisl)
Anonymous, Author - Renee Fleming, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Da-Hong Seetoo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emerson String Quartet, String Quartet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Zeisl, Composer - David Frost, Producer, Recording Producer - J. Peter Koene, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2015 Emerson String Quartet
Album review
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 Rilke fans on that basis alone, but the music, in an idiom that only enthusiasts will be able to tell from early Berg, can stand on its own. It benefits greatly from the effective contrast between the dramatic, swooping Fleming and the intellectual, skittering Emerson. The final work, a soprano and string quartet arrangement of a song by the Austrian Jewish composer Eric Zeisl (later known for the score to The Postman Always Rings Twice), is still less familiar, but it's a gorgeous death ode a click or two closer to tonality than Wellesz, and it's sung to the hilt by Fleming. With lots of fresh music and impeccable performances, this is a winner for Second Viennese School devotees.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:13
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Emerson String Quartet Renée Fleming
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 2015 Decca Music Group Limited ℗ 2015 Decca Music Group Limited
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