Sieben Frühe Lieder (7 early song) Anne Sofie von Otter(Piano) vs. Renée Fleming(Orchestra) + 황수미

[BigMouth]

Sieben frühe Lieder (7 early song)

* Alban Berg (1885-1935) 曲 7 frühe Lieder (1905-08):

1. Nacht (Night)
2. Schilflied (Song of the Reeds)
3. Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale)
4. Traumgekrönt (Crowned in a Dream)
5. Im Zimmer (In the Room)
6. Liebesode (Ode to Love)
7. Sommertage (Summer Days)

* 7 Songs for voice and piano constitute the greater part of Alban Berg's earliest efforts at composition. Though completed 1905 - 08, the composer's Seven Early Songs were not published until 1928. (Berg also made orchestrations of the accompaniments at this time.) These songs, the product of the early years of Berg's apprenticeship to his most important mentor, Arnold Schoenberg, present an apparent simplicity. Upon closer examination, though, they reveal a subtlety and imagination beyond what might be expected of a composer of such relative inexperience. Musicologist Mark DeVoto notes that Berg's earliest songs are technically and creatively superior to those of fellow pupil Anton Webern, who became particularly known for his lieder, and who worked in this genre more prolifically than in any other. The Seven Early Songs have a strong motivic structure; some are built upon a single motivic cell, extensively manipulated and layered. Harmonically, the songs exist in the world of late-Romantic expanded tonality, with a certain ambiguity between major and minor modes, suspension, delayed and sometimes avoided resolutions, and occasionally superfluous key signatures. DeVoto also points out that the Seven Early Songs exemplify a Bergian harmonic tendency, namely "creeping"--that is, harmonic progressions related not by conventional rules but by "stepwise relation and common tones." This means that, for example, successions of chords may simply be related chromatically, descending or ascending by semitone. The Seven Early Songs also display Berg's penchant for symmetrical melodic structures, a characteristic evident in the composer's frequent use of inversion. [Alexander Carpenter]

Another 3 songs(An Leukon, Die Sorglichen and Schließe mir die Augen beide) are to be included 'Berg's Missing Songs' as he originally planned a set of 10 songs - the Seven Early Songs plus the 3 songs. These ten songs were given to his wife, Helene, as a present for their 6-th wedding anniversary on 3rd May 1917.

MzSop. Anne Sofie von Otter (w/ piano Bengt Forsberg)

Sop. Renée Fleming (w/ Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado)

[보너스] 황수미 Sop. Sumi Hwang (Helmut Deutsch - Piano)

(* 정확한 딕션으로 호평받은 2015년 연주에 힘입어, 2018년 4월 국내 초연 독창회 예정)

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