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Alban Berg
Songs from the Youth |
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Wo der Geldregen steht |
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Vorüber! |
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Schlummerlose Nächte |
01:06 |
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Sehnsucht I |
01:11 |
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Abschied |
00:36 |
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Ich will die Fluren melden |
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Geliebte Schöne |
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Er klagt, dass der Frühling so kortz blüht |
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Tiefe Sehnsucht |
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Über den Bergen |
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Am Strande |
01:31 |
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Winter |
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Verlassen |
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Regen |
01:23 |
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Traurigkeit |
01:23 |
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Flötenspielerin |
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Im Morgengrauen |
01:51 |
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Grabschrift |
01:33 |
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Mignon |
01:10 |
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Das stille Königreich |
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Leukon |
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Total Time |
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| Digital Booklet - only with album |
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Berg’s early lieder owe their existence largely to the young composer’s great interest in literature; nevertheless it was his friend Hermann Watznauer, who actually inspired him to embark on composing his first lieder around 1900/01.
And Berg enjoyed himself so much that he continued along the same lines until 1903, completing another 30 lieder; even Arnold Schönberg was essentially fascinated by them: "Berg’s earliest compositions, however clumsy they may have been, already reveal two qualities: first, that to him music was a language and that he actually expressed himself in this language; and secondly: abundant warmth of feeling."
If Alban Berg had not chosen a completely different road later on, he would still be recognized as a direct successor of the Romantic lieder tradition today. But his later compositions, such as his orchestral works, his violin concerto, the great lieder cycles for orchestra and trend-setting operas like Wozzeck or Lulu, soon eclipsed these early compositional attempts.
The lieder themselves shall be called upon to testify to their great aesthetic, even poetic merit; and thanks to Hélène Lindqvist and Philipp Vogler, a larger audience is now, for the first time, given an opportunity to study these works. |
1CD | Vocal | Classics | Contemporary |
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