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Berio - Orchestral Realisations | Chandos CHSA5101

Berio - Orchestral Realisations

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHSA5101

Barcode: 0095115510124

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th January 2012

Contents

Works

Berio, Luciano

Schubert - Rendering

Brahms, Johannes

Clarinet Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.120 no.1 (orch. L Berio)

Mahler, Gustav

Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit, Book 1
» no.1 Fruhlingsmorgen (orch. L Berio)
» no.2 Erinnerung (orch L Berio)
» no.3 Hans und Grete (orch. L Berio)
» no.5 Phantasie aus Don Juan (orch. L Berio)
Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit, Book 2
» no.2 Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grunen Wald (orch. L Berio)
Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit, Book 3
» no.3 Scheiden und Meiden (orch. L Berio)

Artists

Roderick Williams (baritone)
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Edward Gardner

Works

Berio, Luciano

Schubert - Rendering

Brahms, Johannes

Clarinet Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.120 no.1 (orch. L Berio)

Mahler, Gustav

Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit, Book 1
» no.1 Fruhlingsmorgen (orch. L Berio)
» no.2 Erinnerung (orch L Berio)
» no.3 Hans und Grete (orch. L Berio)
» no.5 Phantasie aus Don Juan (orch. L Berio)
Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit, Book 2
» no.2 Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grunen Wald (orch. L Berio)
Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit, Book 3
» no.3 Scheiden und Meiden (orch. L Berio)

Artists

Roderick Williams (baritone)
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Edward Gardner

About

Berio had an abiding fascination with reconciling the past and the present, which can be seen in his orchestral realisations of works by Mahler and Brahms, and most notably, in Rendering (1990), his typically creative completion of unfinished symphonic sketches by Schubert.

In Rendering, Berio – in his own words – sets himself the target of ‘following those modern restoration criteria that aim at reviving the old colours without, however, trying to disguise the damage that time has caused, often leaving inevitable empty patches in the composition’. In the ‘restoration’, Schubert’s sketches have been beautifully orchestrated in period style, and the ‘empty patches’ have been filled with music composed by Berio himself, in his own voice – thereby successfully combining the musical worlds of the early nineteenth and late twentieth centuries into one convincing whole.
 
The Clarinet Sonata by Brahms embodies the composer’s taut and concentrated compositional style. In transcribing the work, Berio felt that, when experienced in the less intimate surroundings of today’s concert halls, the extreme compression of Brahms’s late chamber music style was in need of some additional support, and his version, recorded here, includes a fourteen-bar orchestral introduction to the first movement, leading into Brahms’s own, much shorter opening phrase, as well as five additional bars at the beginning of the second movement.

Berio completed his orchestration of six early songs by Gustav Mahler in 1987, and conducted the first performance with the Toscanini Orchestra on 7 December that year, with Thomas Hampson the baritone soloist. The six songs in this orchestrated set are ‘Hans und Grete’, ‘Phantasie’, ‘Scheiden und Meiden’, ‘Erinnerung’, ‘Frühlingsmorgen’, and ‘Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald’.

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Edward Gardner, with Roderick Williams the baritone soloist in the songs by Mahler and Michael Collins the soloist in Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata.

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