Webern: Passacaglia / Schoenberg: Variations, Op. 31 / Berg: Lyric Suite - 3 pieces; Pieces (3) for Orchestra, Op. 6

Webern: Passacaglia / Schoenberg: Variations, Op. 31 / Berg: Lyric Suite - 3 pieces; Pieces (3) for Orchestra, Op. 6

Webern: Passacaglia / Schoenberg: Variations, Op. 31 / Berg: Lyric Suite - 3 pieces; Pieces (3) for Orchestra, Op. 6
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Composer: Arnold Schoenberg
Composer: Anton Webern
Composer: Alban Berg
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-10-04
Music Label: DG Imports
Soundtracks:
  1. Passacaglia fur Orchester Op. 1
  2. Drei Stucke aus der 'Lyrischen Suite': 2. Andante amoroso
  3. Drei Stucke aus der 'Lyrischen Suite': 3. Allegro misterioso
  4. Drei Stucke aus der 'Lyrischen Suite': 4. Adagio appassionato
  5. Drei Orchesterstucke Op. 6: 1. Praludium Langsam
  6. Drei Orchesterstucke Op. 6: 2. Reigen. Anfangs etwas zogernd - Leicht beschwingt
  7. Drei Orchesterstucke Op. 6: 3. Marsch. Massiges Marschtempo
  8. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Intoduktion. Massig, ruhig
  9. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Thema. Molto moderato
  10. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation I. Moderato
  11. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation II. Langsam
  12. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation III. Massig
  13. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation IV. Walzertempo
  14. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation V. Bewegt
  15. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation VI. Andante
  16. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation VII. Langsam
  17. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation VIII. Sehr rasch
  18. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Variation IX. L'istesso tempo; aber etwas langsamer
  19. Variationen fur Orchester Op. 31: Finale. Massig schnell

Free Music Notes for Webern: Passacaglia / Schoenberg: Variations, Op. 31 / Berg: Lyric Suite - 3 pieces; Pieces (3) for Orchestra, Op. 6

Free Music Review: It's not the Beatles, It's Modern Mania courtesy of Karajan
Hit: 5 Stars

People love to hate Serialism and they have good reason for doing so. Serialism forced classical music into a backwater that it's been trying to get out of for decades. Minimalism, electronic music, neo-romanticism have all had their relative success but the prevailing mood of thought is still that modern music must inherently be dissonant and repugnant to human ears.
People of more populist, mainstream musical thought don't even consider these kind of compositions, on this CD, music at all. That's sad for them but it's also sad for modern music connoisseurs to still advocate serial methods in the 21st century, which is totally false and laughable, even Schoenberg would be bored by now. We have to understand that Webern perfected the 12 tone method and beyond him composers should find their own voices, get rid of that straightjacket.

I have misgivings about Arvo Part, John Adams and others, but at least they tried and are still trying to give classical music, aka real music, relevancy in an age of Britney Spears and Ludacris. The Second Viennese School practically succeeded in making real music irrelevant to the public. Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Bartok, Stravinsky and R. Strauss kept the torch of real art alive in the 20th century, an age of musical manifestos and authoritarian blowhards like Pierre Boulez.

Nonetheless, let's judge the works on this CD for what they are, an exploration of music into new, mostly uncharted waters.
Webern's Passacaglia, op.1 is an amazing work. This was Karajan's favorite work of the Second Vienna School, I believe, and he gives it the kind of shock power and resonance I did not find in the cool headed approach by Boulez. Great music for horror films, right? Of course this applies to all the works on this disc. Berg's Lyric Suite evokes dark hallways, corridors of suspense, eerie graveyards. Film composers have been ripping off modern composers for ages you know. The Three Pieces for Orchestra are awesome under Karajan, especially that quasi-Mahlerian march of the last movement. It's the craziest, most difficult work written by this trio of composers. The final work is the Variations for Orchestra by Schoenberg, a work that has fascinated Karajan for sometime. The liner notes state that Karajan reseated the orchestra for every variation to get the right sound, clarity and balance that this rigid music requires. A reviewer below states that clarity is sometimes obscured throughout. Perhaps he's right, if he likes the reductionist approach of Boulez, feel free to get that. However Karajan seems to interpret these works as more than just intellectual exercises. We all know that Schoenberg and Berg were die-hard late Romantics who cloathed themselves in modernist garb, they are still infected by Wagner, Brahms, Mahler and Strauss, whether they like to admit it ( in the case of Mahler ) or not. Even Anton Webern, who later went on to develop his tiny micro-universes, still had trace matter of the late romantic temperment. So, is it so wrong for Karajan to perhaps expose these undercurrents more readily than other conductors? Karajan can be just as icy as Boulez but Boulez can never be as warm as Karajan which in my mind makes Karajan an infinitely greater conductor because of his more expansive view of musical interpretation.

This CD should be part of your collection, fascinating but difficult works of music, great sound, the best orchestra in the world, led by one of a kind conductor.
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