Berg - Lulu Suite & Drei Orchesterstücke

Recorded Live Concertgebouw Amsterdam 19, 20, 23 October 2005 (Lulu Suite) 27, 28, 29, 30 September 2006 (Drei Orchesterstücke)

Anat Efraty (soprano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti

…conductors as well as listeners can be distracted by the high-gloss surfaces of Berg's orchestration, especially in the Lulu Suite, but Gatti always draws the ear inwards, past smoochy saxophone... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2008
Catalogue No: RCO08004
Label: RCO Live
Length: 54 minutes

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Berg: 3 Orchesterstücke, Op. 6

Work length20:56

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti
Recorded: 27-30 September 2006
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam

3 Orchesterstücke, Op. 6: No. 1, Präludium (1929 Revised Version) [Live]

Track length5:18

3 Orchesterstücke, Op. 6: No. 2, Reigen (1929 Revised Version) [Live]

Track length5:53

3 Orchesterstücke, Op. 6: No. 3, Marsch (1929 Revised Version) [Live]

Track length9:45

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

Work length33:20

Anat Efraty (soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti
Recorded: 19-20, 23 October 2005
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Lulu Suite: I. Rondo. Andante und Hymne (Live)

Track length14:48

Lulu Suite: II. Ostinato. Allegro (Live)

Track length3:13

Lulu Suite: III. Lied der Lulu. Comodo (Live)

Track length2:54

Lulu Suite: IV. Variationen. Moderato (Live)

Track length3:13

Lulu Suite: V. Adagio (Live)

Track length9:12

Applaus

Work length0:33

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti
Recorded: 19-20, 23 October 2005
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Applause (Live)

Track length0:33

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Since taking audiences by storm in his first appearance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in April 2004, conductor Daniele Gatti has been a regular and welcome guest with the orchestra. His concert performances are characterised by highly individual interpretations of traditional orchestral repertoire and a fondness for less common repertoire, with a particular preference for the Second Viennese School and related movements. On this CD, Gatti's first recording with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, he conducts two key works by Alban Berg: the early Drei Orchesterstücke and the suite from the unfinished opera Lulu, Berg's swansong. Under his baton, both works, which Gatti conducted from memory in these concerts, are given highly ominous, atmospheric performances.

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February 2009

…conductors as well as listeners can be distracted by the high-gloss surfaces of Berg's orchestration, especially in the Lulu Suite, but Gatti always draws the ear inwards, past smoochy saxophone and celesta, deep inside those contrapuntal caverns of ecstasy where Berg is even more in his element that Mahler or Strauss.

10th October 2008

Gatti's Berg is very much post-Romantic rather than proto-modernist, with the Mahlerian influences emphasised. In the Three Orchestral Pieces, however, he generates shocking intensity throughout...here you really do feel you've been witness to the wartime dissolution of a world.

Berg - Lulu Suite & Drei Orchesterstücke

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