Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Sound Secrets, Suddenly All Is Over
Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Wednesday 7 February 2007 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Donald Macleod explores Berg's Vienna, a city of breathtaking change. Shockwaves were felt from new discoveries in sciences and the arts and new fears were unleashed as the Austrian empire began to crumble. Vienna's young artists produced deliberately radical works of art designed to shock.
Playlist
III: Uber die Grenzen des All (Beyond the bounds of space)
From Five Orchestral Songs to Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg (1912)
Jessye Norman, Soprano
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez
Sony Classical SK 66826 t9
Four Songs Op 2 (1909-10)
Dagmar Peckova, Soprano
Irwin Gage, Piano
Supraphon SU 3434-2 231 t19-22
Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6 (1913-5)
Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado
Deutsche Grammophon 445 846-2 t9-11
Excerpt from Act III from Wozzeck, Op. 7 (1914-1922
Dame Josephine Barstow, Soprano (Marie)
Andrew Shore, Baritone (Wozzeck)
Jean Rigby, Mezzo-soprano (Margret)
Clive Bayley, Bass (Doctor)
Stuart Kale, Tenor (Captain)
Lads, Whores, Children, Marie's boy
Susan Singh Choristers
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Paul Daniel
Chandos 3094(2) CD2 t13-22
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1925) (Close both my eyes, Theodor Storm, 1925)
Jessye Norman, Soprano
Ann Schein, Piano
Sony Classical SK 66826 t25
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