Berg Three Orchestral Pieces
Lawrence Chalmers
have:
the Boulez/BBC Phil, which I read about here, and Ernest Amsermet. If
anybody has heard this latter, I'd appreciate hearing some comments as
the availability will be 4-6 weeks
from amazon.uk. Also appreciated are some opinions on Abbado LSO vs.
VPO on DG.
David7Gable
I've never heard Ansermet, but the Boulez/BBC SO recording is the finest
performance of the piece I ever hope to hear. It's certainly one of the
recordings in which Boulez is most "on." I also have Abbado/LSO but have never
heard Abbado/VPO. I remember the LSO recording being pretty good but haven't
listened to it in a while.
I can see that I haven't been very helpful.
-david gable
Lawrence Chalmers
ships in 4-6 weeks
(may not be available at all)' or such. I'd like to get the Boulez,
even though I'm not a Boulez fan, because its so highly spoken about.
The
Ansermet was only a curiosity item. If the Boulez turns up unavailable,
would someone burn me a copy? Email if so. (I hate to 'beg'
online...)
Kalman Rubinson
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1949 Revision).
Anton Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10.
Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6.
Alban Berg: Lulu Suite.
Helga Pilarczyk, soprano. London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati,
cond.
Mercury Living Presence 432 006-2. 1961-2.
Kal
David7Gable
>Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1949 Revision).
>Anton Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10.
>Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6.
>Alban Berg: Lulu Suite.
>
>Helga Pilarczyk, soprano. London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati,
>cond.
>Mercury Living Presence 432 006-2. 1961-2.
>
I've got it, but I've got so many damned recordings of the Schoenberg and Berg
orchestral pieces I can't keep 'em straight.
-david gable
David7Gable
>would someone burn me a copy?
I hope Sony hasn't deleted this!!!!!!!!!!! I have seen a few Sony Boulez
edition items at Berkshire, but only stuff that was o/p and never this Berg
disc.
-david gable
Paul Holbach
> news:<27418-3DBF679C-98
> @storefull-2236.public.lawson.webtv.net>...
There´s another recording I enjoy very much:
Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker, Deutsche Grammophon/The Originals,
recorded 1973.
(together with Webern´s Passacaglia and Schoenberg´s Variations - a
brilliant CD in my opinion!)
regards
PH
Matthew B. Tepper
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What do you guys think of the Levine/Berlin Schoenberg/Berg/Webern disc?
As I recall, the Fanfare reviewer likened it to being on Saturn....
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Lawrence Chalmers
heard his Sony/Met Orchestra, though.
Bruce Hodges
> I think the Levine/Berlin is superb! I think its OOP now. Haven't
> heard his Sony/Met Orchestra, though.
I agree totally: Levine/Berlin is excellent. Actually my favorite
performance on the disc isn't the Berg (great as it is), but the
Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, with perhaps the most dramatic
fourth movement I've ever heard.
But the Sony/Met disc is also marvelous (still priced in stores for
around $12 for some reason), and has Renée Fleming singing excerpts
from Lulu and Wozzeck. (I might be in the minority, liking her in
this repertoire.)
No doubt, Levine really has a knack for this music.
--Bruce
Matthew B. Tepper
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If you mentioned in rec.music.opera that you liked her, you might find
yourself in the minority. She appears to be despised there; but then, it's
a newsgroup where practically any unrelated thread can degenerate into a
Placido Domingo bashing session.
> No doubt, Levine really has a knack for this music.
Then that Saturn disc is recommendable?
JRsnfld
Then that Saturn disc is recommendable? >>
I'm not sure what the Saturn connection is, but when I last compared versions
of the Berg 3 Pieces, the Levine/BPO proved to be my least favorite, maybe
nosing out Abbado. The recording is not bad, in part because the playing is
good and so is the engineering. But Boulez, Rosbaud, Maderna and Karajan (I'm
sure I'm forgetting someone else) seem to find more interesting things about
the rhythms, the orchestration, the dynamics, etc. There just seems to be more
dimensions to the music than found on that DG recording. Nonetheless, the DG
disc isn't all that bad--suave and assured. But if you want that, get the
Karajan.
--Jeff
Lawrence Chalmers
Rosbaud (so is the Webern and "Agon").
I like , for different reasons, _all_ the recordings I have:
Levine BPO
Von Karajan BPO
Gielen SWR
Rosbaud SWR
Naxos (can't remember who at the moment)
Dorati LSO
Metzmacher - Bamberg (emi)
As old and limited in sound the Rosbaud is, you can hear everything,
every flutter tongue, percussion (the softest even) and is _the_
reference recording for me.
I hope that, if the Boulez does arrive, the soundstage is not set up for
quad sound that
Sony was doing at the time.
James Meckley
>
> > No doubt, Levine really has a knack for this music.
>
> Then that Saturn disc is recommendable?
The Fanfare reference was to Neptune, I believe. At least it always
sounded more like Neptune than Saturn to me. :-|
James Meckley