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A. BERG - O. MSSIAEN - Chamber Works

 
A. BERG - O. MSSIAEN - Chamber Works-Piano and Clarinet-Chamber Music
ID: MELCD1002310 (EAN: 4600317123100)  | 1 CD | ADD
Released in: 2014
LABEL:
Melodiya
Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection:
Piano and Clarinet
Composers:
BERG, Alban | MESSIAEN, Olivier
Interprets:
BRUNNER, Eduard (clarinet) | GUTMAN, Natalia (cello) | KAGAN, Oleg (violin) | LOBANOV, Vasily (piano)
Other info:

Firma Melodiya presents a recording of chamber works by Alban Berg and Olivier Messiaen.

Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1913) were created by Alban Berg, one of the pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of the Second Viennese School, in a period of an intense creative ascent, a year before he began to work on his opera Wozzeck.

Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is arguably one of the most amazing pages of chamber music of the 20th century. It was composed during the composer’s stay in German prisoner-of-war camp where it was premiered in January of 1941. The epigraph to the entire work was inspired by text from the Book of Revelation:

“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire ... and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth .... And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever ... that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished.”

The works were first performed in the former USSR for the first time in 1998 at the Gift to the Vine music festival in the Georgian city of Telavi. The festival was initiated by two outstanding Soviet musicians - cellist Natalia Gutman and violinist Oleg Kagan. The composer and pianist Vasily Lobanov and Swiss clarinetist, then a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eduard Brunner, both recognized interpreters of contemporary music, were among the participants of the festival. A year later, the Quartet for the End of Time was performed by the same line-up in Moscow at Sviatoslav Richter’s December Evenings festival at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

The featured recording was made at one of the last performances of Oleg Kagan who passed away prematurely in 1990.

(1-4) - Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Vasily Lobanov, piano
(5 - 12) - Oleg Kagan, violin / Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Natalia Gutman, cello / Vasily Lobanov, piano
Tracklist
 
BERG, Alban (1885-1935) 
Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, Op. 5 
1. I. Mässig1:22 
2. II. Sehr langsam1:50 
3. III. Sehr rasch1:01 
4. IV. Langsam2:59 
MESSIAEN, Olivier (1908-1992) 
Quartet for the End of Time for violin, clarinet, cello and piano 
5. I. Crystal liturgy inspired by the awakening of birds2:52 
6. II. Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the end of time5:39 
7. III. Abyss of birds7:13 
8. IV. Interlude1:38 
9. V. Praise to the eternity of Jesus10:03 
10. VI. Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse6:24 
11. VII. Tangle of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of time7:22 
12. VIII. Praise to the immortality of Jesus and the Word made flesh7:04 
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