Webern: Vocal and Chamber Music - CD
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Barkod: 0747313251629
, Katalog No: 8.557516 , Firma: Naxos
, Yayınlanma Tarihi:
18 Ocak 2016 , Orijinal Yıl: 2015
Format Türü: CD, Format: 1 CD, Süre: 74:11
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The scholar-conductor Robert Craft recorded the music of Anton Webern (1883 -- 1945) in the late 1950s and has concluded his second cycle of Webern with this recording on Naxos of vocal and chamber works. Craft is an authority on musical modernism, including Stravinsky and Schoenberg. I have learned a great deal about Schoenberg from Craft's many Naxos recordings. These recordings encouraged me to hear this CD of Webern, Schoenberg's friend and student. Naxos kindly sent me a copy of this CD to review.This CD includes five sets of songs for soprano and piano, a cantata for soprano chorus and orchestra, two works for string quartet, and Berg's transcription of Schoenberg's 1906 Chamber Symphony No. 1, op. 9. The music is largely atonal, short, taut, and intense. It has been highly influential. Many listeners find Webern forbidding and cold. I find the music lyrical and fresh, casting romanticism and passion in a modern idiom.
The five short song cycles on this CD range from 1908 to 1934 and feature soprano Tony Arnold and Jacob Greenberg. Both these performers understand and love this music and perform it with the passion it deserves. The two early cycles, op. 3 and op. 4 set poems by Stephan George while the op. 12 cycle sets a folk song, a poem by Li Tai Po (700-762), and texts by Strindberg and Goethe. These songs are each short but within the range of much traditional lieder. They are concentrated, emotive, and intense. The remaining two sets, op. 23 and op. 25, date from 1934 and set texts by Webern's friend, the poet Hildegarde Jone (1891 -- 1963) who is not much known in the United States. The opus 23 set includes deeply religious poems while the opus 25 set includes nature poems. The musical settings are atonal, structured, and full of feeling. The vocal range is large, the phrasing shifts from long lines to short, punctuated notes, and for all their brevity, the work is full of pregnant pauses.
Webern also set texts by Jone in the op. 29 Cantata for Soprano Solo and Mixed Chorus composed in 1939. This is the only work on the CD conducted by Craft, and it features soprano Claire Booth, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Simon Joly Chorale. This cantata of about eight minutes is in three short movements, the first of which features the chorale, the second the soprano, and the third both the soloist and the chorale. It is fascinating music.
Webern's compositions for string quartet are probably better known than his vocal compositions. The CD includes idiomatically tight and expressive performances by the Fred Sherry String Quartet of the set of six bagatelles, op.9, and the three -movement string quartet, op. 28 of the mid-1930s. This latter work compresses the intimacy, voice writing, varied textures, and emotional range of a string quartet into eight minutes.
The final and longest work on this CD is Webern's 1923 arrangement of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1. Schoenberg's work, one of his masterpieces, is composed for fifteen instruments including ten winds (flute/piccolo, oboe, English horn, clarinet, e-flat clarinet, bass-clarinet, bassoon, contra-bassoon, two French horns) together with two violins, viola, cello, and double bass. A fine recording of Schoenberg's original version is available conducted by Craft as part of his Schoenberg series on Naxos. Schoenberg: Pierrot LunaireWebern arranged the work for five instruments, including flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. He followed Schoenberg's movements and markings closely. As might be expected, the piano, performed on this CD by Orion Weiss, has a predominant role. Other performers in this recording are flutist Sooyun Kim, clarinetist Charles Nedlich, violinist Leila Josefowicz, and cellist Fred Sherry. Webern's setting is effective in its own right. If possible his arrangement should be heard together with Schoenberg's original version.
Eser Listesi
- 1. No. 1 Dies Ist Ein Lied Für Dich Allein
- 2. No. 2 Im Windesweben
- 3. No. 3 An Bachesranft
- 4. No. 4 Im Morgentaun
- 5. No. 5 Kahl Reckt Der Baum
- 6. No. 1 Eingang
- 7. No. 2 Noch Einmal Zwingt Mich Treue
- 8. No. 3 Ja Heil Und Dank
- 9. No. 4 So Ich Traurig Bin
- 10. No. 5 Ihr Tratet Zu Dem Herde
- 11. No. 1 Mäßig
- 12. No. 2 Leicht Bewegt
- 13. No. 3 Ziemlich Fließend
- 14. No. 4 Sehr Langsam
- 15. No. 5 Äußerst Langsam
- 16. No. 6 Fließend
- 17. No. 1 Der Tag Ist Vergangen
- 18. No. 2 Die Geheimnisvolle Flöte (Nach Gedichten Von Li T'ai-Po)
- 19. No. 3 Schien Mir's, Als Ich Sah Die Sonne (Nach Gedichten Von August Strindberg)
- 20. No. 4 Gleich Und Gleich (Nach Texten Von Goethe)
- 21. No. 1 Das Dunkle Herz
- 22. No. 2 Es Stürzt Aus Höhen Firsche
- 23. Nr. 3 Herr Jesus Mein
- 24. No. 1 Wie Bin Ich Froh!
- 25. No. 2 Des Herzens Purpurvogel
- 26. No. 3 Sterne
- 27. 1. Mäßig
- 28. 2. Gemächlich
- 29. 3. Sehr Fließend
- 30. Zündender Lichtblitz Des Lebens: Getragen: Lebhaft
- 31. Kleine Flügel Ahornsamen: Leicht Bewegt
- 32. Tönen Die Seligen Saiten Apolls: Ruhig
- 33. 1. Langsam - Sehr Rasch
- 34. 2. Sehr Rasch
- 35. 3. Viel Langsamer
- 36. 4. Viel Langsamer
- 37. 5. Schwungvoll
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