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2024-02-19 16:02:25
Alban Berg, Part III, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: February 5, 2024. Alban Berg, Part III, Lulu. Frank Wedekind was a famous (and controversial) German playwright. Among his more famous plays were two, Earth Spirit, written in 1895, and Pandora's Box, from 1904, usually paired together and called Lulu plays, after the name of the protagonist. For a while, the plays were banned for presumed obscenity. Berg saw the plays in the early 1900s in Berlin, with Wedekind himself playing Jack the Ripper in Pandora's Box. He was much taken by the plays, and some quarter century later, following the success of his first opera, Wozzeck, decided to write another one, based on Wedekind’s plays. The storyline of the plays is convoluted: Lulu, an impoverished girl, is saved by a rich publisher, Dr. Schön, from life on the streets. Schön brings her up and makes her his lover. Later, he marries Lulu off to […]
2024-02-19 15:26:57
Alban Berg - Lulu Suite, Part 2Arleen Auger (Soprano)City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)Simon Rattle (Conductor)
2023-11-24 00:00:00
Bruckner, Pettersson, Prokofiev, Rawsthorne, Suk: Mainly Orchestral Works (Handley, Lloyd-Jones, Nelsons, Pešek et al)
Josef Suk:1.01 - 1.08 Zrání 'Ripening'. Symphonic Poem, op.34 [41'21]1.09 Praga. Symphonic Poem op.26 [25'22]2.01 - 2.08 Epilogue for soprano, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra, op.37 * [40'38]2.09 - 2.12 Pohádka 'Fairy Tale', op.16 [29'24]Luba Orgonasova- soprano, Ivan Kusnjer- baritone, Peter Mikulas- bass, Royal Liverpool Philharnonic Choir *; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Libor PešekErato 5099991257659 [recorded August 1992 and June 1997 for Virgin Classics; this reissue 2013][digital downloads; flacs, cover and inlay scans with booklets for the original Virgin Classics releases sourced from internet]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: Mike Clements; Producer: John H. WestAlan Rawsthorne:01 Street Corner Overture (1944) [5'36]02 - 05 Madame Chrysanthème. Ballet Suite (1957) [8'25]06 - 12 Practical Cats. An Entertainment for Speaker and Orchestra (1954) * [22'48]13 Theme, Variations & Finale (1967) [15'13]14 - 15 Medieval Diptych for Baritone and Orchestra (1962) ^ [14'09]16 Coronation Overture (1953) [5'33]Simon Callow- speaker *; Jeremy Huw Williams- […]
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