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| Berg, Webern, Schoenberg: Orchestral Pieces / Levine | |||||
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Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog #: 419781
Spars Code: DDD
Composer: Alban Berg, Anton von Webern, Arnold Schoenberg Conductor: James Levine Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 |
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| This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic and includes liner notes. | |||||
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No one hearing these new recordings by James Levine and the BPO is likely to remain indifferent to this marvellous music...
Levine's hyper-romantic style is especially apparent in the second Berg piece, where the strings swoop and swoon, and the sheer weight of the texture is underlined. The performance of the Berg as a whole is indeed weighty. It is also powerfully dramatic, with a recording of extraordinary fullness: forward and, if not always absolutely natural in its treatment of the music's intricate interplay of solo strands and full orchestral mass, balanced so that the constant shifts of colour and perspective tell with maximum impact. The hammer blows of the third piece leap from the speakers with stark immediacy, yet there is an abundance of delicate shadings in quieter passages... Levine's Schoenberg is similar to his Berg: broadly paced, the final piece excessively so, but still generating a highly-charged intensity. The Webern, done here in its original version, can also be tauter, lingering less over fugitive details without losing structural cogency. But this finely played account is faithful to the brooding, tense atmosphere of Webern's most anguished essay in suppressed autobiography. -- Arnold Whittall, Gramophone [8/1987] |
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| Works on This Recording | Back to Top | |||||
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Pieces (3) for Orchestra, Op. 6 by Alban Berg | |||||
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Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1915/1929; Austria |
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Date of Recording: 12/1986 Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin Length: 21 Minutes 0 Secs. |
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Pieces (6) for Orchestra, Op. 6 by Anton von Webern | |||||
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Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1909/1928; Preglhof |
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Date of Recording: 06/1986 Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin Length: 14 Minutes 5 Secs. |
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Pieces (5) for Orchestra, Op. 16 by Arnold Schoenberg | |||||
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Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1909; Vienna, Austria |
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Date of Recording: 06/1986 Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin Length: 16 Minutes 45 Secs. |
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