Renée Fleming - Sieben frühe Lieder - Berg LIVE (2007) plus "An Leukon"
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Seven Early Songs and An Leukon
No. 1 Nacht
No. 2 Schilflied
No. 3 Die Nachtigall
No. 4 Traumgekrönt
No. 5 Im Zimmer
An Leukon (UK premiere) arranged: Chris Gordon
No. 6 Liebesode
No. 7 Sommertage
Renée Fleming
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
I absolutely adore Berg's Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven early songs) - the incredible beauty of the vocal writing, Berg's sensuous response to the texts, and his magnificent orchestration which he furnished the songs with in 1928, at the height of his powers, two decades after he wrote them. Berg is one of the most consummate masters of the orchestra - of his era only Strauss, Schoeck, Ives and Janacek match him for range, sheer beauty and aural imagination in this regard.
In this performance singer, orchestra and conductor give full rein to the music's intoxicating, almost feverish sensuality, Renée Fleming's trademark lyricism finding itself in ideal repertoire. Added to the familiar seven early songs is an extra early song by Berg "An Leukon" here given its UK premiere (12:05). It was orchestrated in Bergian style by Chris Gordon. In the same concert she sang some excerpts from Korngold operas (I will post versions of these soon)
Renée Fleming sang these songs several times in the mid 2000s, one particularly fine live performance with Abbado/Berlin Phil being released together with Mahler 4th symphony. It's one of her most exquisite discs in fact - the Berg is more refined, poetic and mysterious than the reading we get here, which is by comparison more overtly passionate and urgent (more operatic shall we say). Although she has never sung Marie or Lulu on stage, she actually recorded extracts of both roles in her first major commercial recording in 1993 - Levine and the Met orchestra give sublimely beautiful support - another disc really worth seeking out: rarely has Berg sounded more lushly romantic. Also in the mid 2000s she gave several performances of the Altenberg Lieder which represent a slightly more "advanced" tonal/atonal idiom, and then in 2015 with the Emerson Quartet she recorded the "secret song" contained within the last movement of Berg's Lyric Suite.
The original video broadcast had very distorted sound on all the high notes, so I have spliced together the image with a higher quality radio broadcast. I plan to do the same with the Korngold songs from the same concert.
Hi! It is my orchestration of Alban Berg's song, An Leukon, which Renée Fleming sang so beautifully with the Seven Early Songs at the BBC Proms on 6 August 2007.
I completed 4 orchestrations of Berg songs for Universal Edition, Vienna, and 3 of them (An Leukon, Die Sorglichen and Schließe mir die Augen beide) are what I call 'Berg's Missing Songs' as he originally planned a set of 10 songs - the Seven Early Songs plus the 3 songs mentioned above. These ten songs were given to his wife, Helene, as a present for their 6th wedding anniversary on 3rd May 1917.
Chris Gordon thanks so much for this comment. And thanks for the orchestration! Glad I can share it!
Great moments of opera You are welcome! The 'Ten Early Songs' have now been performed 8 times by Swedish soprano, Lisa Larsson, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Get Gelders Orkest of Arnhem, The Netherlands and the Reutlingen Philharmonie , Reutlingen, Germany.
Chris Gordon would love to hear the others. Some of my favourite music. I had already credited you in the video description, so don't worry!
Great moments of opera Hi, yes, I noticed you had credited me with the orchestration of An Leukon. It was very nice of you and I am grateful to you. I thought it would be interesting for your subscribers to get confirmation from 'the horse's mouth', so to speak, and I thought it would help if I explain that An Leukon has 2 companions!
There is a radio recording of one of the concerts of Het Gelders Orkest (cond. Antonello Manacorda) with Lisa Larsson, soloist in Utrecht, I think it was but I will have to check and get back to you. The concert was in April, 2016. Best wishes, Chris
Chris Gordon yes link it here if you like.
She does a wonderful job on these. It's so great to hear them again! Brings back many memories of my discovery of Alban Berg in college.
These songs performed by the late Jessye Norman is quite wonderful, as well.
An absolute gem. Gorgeous performance of such an underrated and underperformed work. Lovely thank you.
Thanks for the lovely comment. She was on fire that concert - look up her "Ich ging zu ihm" from Der Wunder der Heliane from the same concert.
22才でこれを作る
驚異的
ベルクが尊敬するマーラーの歌曲集と、ベルクの師匠のシェーンベルクの「グレの歌」からの抜粋みたいな歌曲集
ロマンチックで、後期ロマン派の最後にいるようなオーケストラ伴奏
I like this very much. Is there anything similar?
Berg's Altenberg Lieder. Jessye Norman's recording with Boulez is referential.
12:08からラオコーン
オーケストラ伴奏版を初めて聴いた
ベルクはピアノ伴奏版しか作らなかった
ベルクのオーケストレーションと全然違う
Listen to the late Soprano, Chloe Owen
Don't you just love smart phones' 'predictive text' !
Corrections:
Im Sommerwind
Het Gelders Orkest
Listen to the late Soprano, Chloe Owen