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2024-02-19 16:02:25
Alban Berg, Part III, 2024
[…] of Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius, who died of polio, became one of Berg’s most successful compositions. Understanding that Lulu most likely wouldn’t be staged in Germany – or anywhere else – anytime soon, Berg decided to write a suite for soprano and orchestra based on the opera, the so-called Lulu Suite. Erich Kleiber performed it in November of 1934, it was well received by the public but the level of condemnation by Goebbels and his underlings was such that Kleiber was not only forced to resign from the Berlin Opera but emigrated from Germany. Berg continued working on the orchestration of Lulu but never completed it: in November of 1935 he was bitten by an insect, that developed into a furuncle, which led to blood poisoning. Berg died on Christmas Eve of 1935. In 1979, the Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha completed the orchestration of the third act; […]
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2022-08-16 10:08:36
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2021-09-07 14:01:00
Musikfest Berlin (3): Stefanovich/RSB/Jurowski - Stravinsky and Hindemith, 4 September 2021
[…] for me, more strongly than ever, in line with Jurowski’s astute guidance to follow the balletic muse. It was, even on a second hearing, less hermetic, more lyrical, and with all the potential for the visual imagination of Petrushka. More please! What could be more of a Berlin piece than the Mathis der MalerSymphony, premiered by the Philharmonic and Furtwängler in 1934, a regrettable milestone in both artists’ relations with the Nazi regime and Goebbels in particular. Not that one heard any of that here, though one certainly noted from the outset a very different sound and compositional method from that heard in Stravinsky’s music. The first movement flowed well with no suspicion of worthiness, let alone dullness (however unfair the charge to Hindemith). And then, almost before one knew it, the motoric side of Hindemith kicked in, suggestive less of Stravinsky than of earlier Hindemith, Cardillac in particular. […]
2021-09-01 04:00:26
Enescu’s opera offers little redemption but Heiner Goebbels’ new work is destined to enter the repertoire
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