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Berg - Orchestral Works | Chandos CHSA50742

Berg - Orchestral Works

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHSA50742

Barcode: 0095115507421

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 2nd March 2009

Penguin Guide 4 stars

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The works on these SACDs span Berg’s creative career from his first published piece, the Piano Sonata, Op.1, here performed in the orchestration by Theo Verbey, to the Violin Concerto and the Symphonic Pieces from the Opera ‘Lulu’, the last works that were fully completed when Berg died at the age of fifty in 1935.

The Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen performs the Violin Concerto, for which she is well known. In 2008 the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote: ‘Van Keulen brought Manon Gropius vividly to life in the concerto, matching her tone and expression to each episode; flighty and cheerful in the first, plucky and aggressive in the second, serenely resigned at the end, where Berg quotes a Bach chorale. The enigmatic folksong woven into both movements (hardly Bachian with its risqué text) had a mysterious feel, and van Keulen tied it all up in a performance as narrative as it was nimble.

This comprehensive collection, performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (the National Orchestra of Sweden) under its former Principal Conductor Mario Venzago, is released on two Surround-Sound hybrid SA-CDs. It is the only available Berg collection on SA-CD.

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