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Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
Catalogue No: CHSA5074(2)
Label: Chandos
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

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Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (Arr. for Orchestra)

Work length12:52

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Berg: Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6

Work length21:04

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

I. Präludium. Langsam

Track length4:46

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II. Reigen. Anfangs etwas zögernd. Leicht beschwingt

Track length5:35

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III. Marsch. Mäßiges Marschtempo

Track length10:43

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Berg: Der Wein

Work length13:00

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Robert Murray

Berg: Passacaglia (Arr. for Orchestra)

Work length4:24

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Berg: Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)

Work length28:13

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Isabelle van Keulen

I. Andante - Allegretto

Track length11:11

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II. Allegro - Adagio

Track length17:02

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Berg: Three Wozzeck-Fragments

Work length20:09

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Geraldine McGreevy, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, Saga Danielsson

No. 1, Act I Scene 2. Marsch - Act I Scene 3. Wiegenlied

Track length7:23

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No. 2, Act III Scene 1. Variationen

Track length5:36

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No. 3, Act III Scenes 4 & 5. Abschluss

Track length7:10

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Berg: Lulu-Suite (Five Symphonic Pieces) for soprano and orchestra

Work length34:24

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Geraldine McGreevy

I. Rondo. Andante und Hymme

Track length15:49

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II. Ostinato. Allegro

Track length3:54

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III. Lied der Lulu. Comodo

Track length2:44

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IV. Variationen. Moderato

Track length3:08

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V. Adagio. Sostenuto

Track length8:49

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Berg: Der Wein

Work length13:41

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Geraldine McGreevy

Strauss, J, II: Wein, Weib und Gesang!

Work length9:27

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Mario Venzago, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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The works on the present SA-CDs span Berg’s creative career from his first published piece, the Piano Sonata, Op. 1, here performed in the orchestration by Theo Verbey, to the Violin Concerto and the Symphonic Pieces from the Opera ‘Lulu’, the last works that were fully completed when Berg died at the age of fifty in 1935.

The Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen performs the Violin Concerto, for which she is well known. The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote last year: ‘Van Keulen brought Manon Gropius vividly to life in the concerto, matching her tone and expression to each episode; flighty and cheerful in the first, plucky and aggressive in the second, serenely resigned at the end, where Berg quotes a Bach chorale. The enigmatic folksong woven into both movements (hardly Bachian with its risqué text) had a mysterious feel, and van Keulen tied it all up in a performance as narrative as it was nimble.’

This comprehensive collection, performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (the National Orchestra of Sweden) under its former Principal Conductor Mario Venzago, is released on two Surround-Sound hybrid SA-CDs. It is the only available Berg collection on SA-CD and sold at the price of a single SA-CD.

The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra recently made its debut on Chandos with a disc of concertos by Weinberg, which was widely praised.

Reviews

May 2009

Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight, this set represents an outstanding addition to the catalogue…

May 2009

That the suites from Wozzeck and Lulu are the most pressing reasons to hear this set is due in large part to the stature and eloquence of Geraldine McGreevy's contributions, for if she ever sang either of Berg's hapless heroines on stage in the UK, I would beat a path to the opera-house door.

2011 edition

The main orchestra works come off extremely well here...the orchestral suites from Wozzeck and Lulu have both intensity and atmosphere. The Three Pieces, Op. 6 have more warmth here than usual, though the finale has a fine sense of impending doom.

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