![]() ![]() ![]() Like much of Schreker, if washes over and around you without gripping the ear. No bad thing in any event, and the music is extremely listenable when played as persuasively as this by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with haunting solos by concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich. ![]() If I’d heard it in a blind listening, I would probably have identified the music as Berg, though some passages could be mistaken for Franz Schreker, the arch-decadent opera composer of the day. In Davis’s orchestration, the sonata score sounds like a missing suite from his second opera, Lulu, while the Passacaglia is steeped in its predecessor, Wozzeck. The Passacaglia of 1913 is another Berg stepping stone towards maturity. The piano sonata of 1907-08 was Berg’s first published work, written under the admonitory thumb of his teacher Arnold Schoenberg, who was in the throes of embracing atonality. The English conductor Sir Andrew Davis has spent lockdown time orchestrating two works that Berg never intended for orchestra. This is Alban Berg as you’ve never heard him before. James Ehnes (Photo courtesy of the artist) Alban Berg: Violin Concerto &c (Chandos) ![]()
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