Lyric Suite (with Schoenberg - Transfugured Night)
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ALBAN BERG
Lyric Suite (with Schoenberg - Transfugured Night)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Ensemble Resonanz
[ Harnmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 20 January 2014
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The First World War, that crucible of every kind of artistic change, intervened between Berg's Lyric Suite (1925) and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1899). On either side of that traumatic divide, each of the works refers to adulterous love. The poem by Richard Dehmel that inspired Transfigured Night evokes the conception of an illegitimate child and its pardon. The amorous dialogue between Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs and its painful epilogue form the subtext to the composition of the Lyric Suite.
"Queyras's Berg manifests a fine sense of phrasing and a sympathy for the music's violence. The quicksilver bounce of the third movement and the force of the fourth are especially impressive … a first-rate string quartet." (International Record Review)
"a strikingly assertive, beefy performance that emphasises the dramatic structure of Verklärte Nacht at the expense of the score's lyricism and textural beauty." (The Guardian)
