Artist: The Cleveland Orchestra
Album: Berg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite – Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 56:57
Total Tracks: 6
Total Size: 1018 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. The Cleveland Orchestra – I. Andante amoroso (05:33)
1-2. The Cleveland Orchestra – II. Allegro misterioso – Trio estatico (04:05)
1-3. The Cleveland Orchestra – III. Adagio appassionato (05:41)
1-4. The Cleveland Orchestra – I. Stürmisch bewegt (from Act I) [compiled by Franz Welser-Möst] (08:30)
1-5. The Cleveland Orchestra – II. Sehr lebhaft (from Act II) [compiled by Franz Welser-Möst] (14:23)
1-6. The Cleveland Orchestra – III. So schnell als möglich (from Act III) [compiled by Franz Welser-Möst] (18:43)

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This recording of Alban Berg’s Three Pieces from Lyric Suite and a Suite in Three Parts from Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier, compiled by Franz Welser-Möst, pairs two early-20th-century masterpieces grappling with an all-consuming love and lust through vastly expressive but different means.

A member of the Second Viennese school, Berg wrote the Lyric Suite while he was infatuated with Hanna Fuchs-Robettin. Both were married, yet Berg inscribed and intertwined their initials into a six-movement suite for string quartet. These cyphers and codes simmer subliminally under music that merges 12-tone techniques pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg with echoes of early 19th-century romanticism. Berg later arranged the second, third, and fourth sections for string orchestra to create the Three Pieces, a trio of intense and passionately argued movements captured on this recording.