Alban Berg
Drei Orchesterstücke Op. 6
Symphonische Stücke aus der Oper "Lulu"
Anat Efraty
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti
RCO Live 8004
„Meinem Lehrer und Freunde Arnold Schönberg in unermeßlicher
Dankbarkeit und Liebe“
- reads Alban Berg's dedication of his Three Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6, the pinnacle of the late romantic orchestral output; according to some. "Mahler's 11th", as I sometimes call it, or rather the first mature work of a genial innovator? Berg's music always defies labels and speaks to us with its unmistakable fondness and unsurpassed sensuality.
And where sensuality itself becomes "music", then we are in the magic world of Lulu...
One of the highest dramatic masterpieces of the last century, combining perfect complex musical structures with the most natural, sweet and human listening experience.
Some 20 years after Berg had composed his Pieces Op. 6, and at the end of his brief life, the Viennese master adapted some magnificent symphonic excerpts from his second drama into a famous Suite.
Opening with the tragic, lustful and desperate Alwa's love hymn in the magic first piece, and ending with the eternal love's vow from the dying Countess Geschwitz - both, like the many fallen heroes of Pandora's Box, Lulu's victims and executioners alike.
In this RCO release, our beloved Milanese Maestro, Daniele Gatti is leading the glowing Concertgebouw not only with heart but also with precision, as a true apostle of Berg's music (I still recall his touching Lulu at La Scala back in 2010), joined by the Israeli soprano Anat Efraty (Lulu at the Massimo of Palermo in 2001), who shines in the fiendish Lied, and also takes on Geschwitz's final lines, although she certainly is no match for the divine Margaret Price in Abbado's classic recording from 1970.
FLACs and Cover (Front Cover is all I got 4 years ago from a very mean, world renowned digital store... sorry!)
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