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	Alban Berg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg.
		Berg was a part of Vienna's cultural elite during the heady period of fin de siÃ¨cle.
		In 1906, Berg met Helene Nahowski, singer and daughter of a wealthy family, and despite the outward hostility of her family, married on May 3, 1911.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alban_Berg (879 words)

	Alban Berg - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1906, Berg met Helene Nahowski, singer and daughter of a wealthy family, and despite the outward hostility of her family, married on May 3, 1910.
		Berg is probably best known for his Violin Concerto, which, like much of his work, combines atonality with tonal passages, and uses Schoenberg's twelve tone technique in a way as to admit Wagnerian harmonies.
		Berg died on Christmas Eve, 1935, in Vienna, from blood poisoning caused by an insect bite.
	www.free-definition.com /Alban-Berg.html (749 words)

	The Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Authors
		Aswynn Born in Holland, Freya Aswynn was aware of her natural psychic abilities as early as four years old, often able to perceive what would occur before it did.
		Berg Wendy Berg (England) is a direct recipient of the branch of the Western Mystery Tradition that comes, via Dion Fortune and Gareth Knight, from the nineteenth century Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
		Kelly In early 1987, Penny Kelly and her husband, Jim, purchased fifty-seven acres of land, complete with a 100-year-old house, a dilapidated barn, and two small vineyards.
	www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /subjects.php?gen_sbj=Authors (17969 words)

	Renï¿½ï¿½e Fleming Hartmut Hï¿½ï¿½ll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of Bergâs revered models was Robert Schumann, and on tonightâs program, we hear songs from Schumannâs âmiracle yearâ of lieder in 1840 and one song from his late periodâ”eight different facets of a master song-composer.
		The seven songs are not a cycle: they were composed separately, and then gathered together by Berg himself for publication in 1928.
		Hearing this song, we remember that Schumann had earlier dreamed of being a professional pianist, and this froth-and-foam of 32nd-note broken-chordal figuration is the lightest, fleetest of work-outs for the pianist.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4939_pf.html (3745 words)

	Trememndous student recital by Kreuze in Kresge
		Equally difficult are Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs (1905-1908), the last group of tonal-chromatic Weltschmerz before the birth of atonal chromaticism and Viennese serialism.
		These songs -- from seven turn-of-the-century German poets -- are brooding, tender, ecstatic, and thoroughly romantic; and their rich harmony, inner voices, and inherent mixture of drama and repose are very challenging.
		The Berg songs, especially the first three, were balanced yet emotional, occasionally epic when the score demanded epic treatment.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N57/krueze.57a.html (626 words)

	The Session: Shop - Product info
		The Wagner is better sung than Jessye Norman's rendition (coupled with her now-classic Vier Letzte Lieder on the "Phillips 50" re-release) and possibly reigns equal with the Cheryl Studer/Sinopoli on DG with the Dresden Staatskapelle (also coupled, incidentally, with an indispensable Vier Letzte Lieder).
		If you aren't familiar with Berg's Sieben Fruhe Lieder (Seven Early Songs); it's time you were, especially if you're a fan of the Wagner/Strauss tradition of voice-as-instrument orchestral lieder.
		Despite the fact that Jane Eaglen can produce some beautiful sounds, her version of the Four Last Songs is not competitive for it cannot be compared to the versions by Schwarzkopf, Janowitz or even Te Kanawa.
	www.thesession.org /shop/display.php/B00004S38A (612 words)

	Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heppner ‘s opening set was Schumann’s Liederkreis (Song Garland), and it took him a few minutes to scale his huge, meaty sound to a level that didn’t drill his listeners to the back of their seats.
		The songs in the program’s second half-five by the French composer Henri Duparc and five by the Italian composer Paolo Tosti-revealed that behind Mr.
		For the Tosti songs, he donned a bow tie and a vest suitable to the composer who had been Queen Victoria’s voice teacher, and showed a side of himself that I have not heard before-an utterly idiomatic command of the Italian sentimental style.
	www.benheppner.com /Reviews5.html (1090 words)

	ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network
		Schoenberg accepted Berg on the basis of this one work and as a result changed the course of music history forever.
		Some years later Alban, now comfortably in the fold of the Second Viennese School, opened his old piano bench and resurrected seven early songs which he had written in the days prior to his apprenticeship with Schoenberg and spruced up the piano score, later orchestrating all seven of these miniatures for full orchestra.
		Berg could easily have appropriated his master's most famous comment and said of this performance "my songs are not bad, just badly sung".
	www.concertonet.com /scripts/review.php?ID_review=285 (599 words)

	Alban Berg
		The early sonata sketches eventually culminated in Berg's Piano Sonata Op.1 (1907—
		Berg would then pass this idea down to one of his students,
		Berg was a part of Vienna's cultural elite during the heady period of
	www.mp3.fm /Alban_Berg.htm (578 words)

	Susan Graham at Carnegie Hall
		The mysterious beginning of the opening song De Reve is perfectly weighted, and Martineau resists the temptation to overemphasise Debussy's thick accompanying chords.
		Berg's Seven Early Songs follow, a world apart stylistically but sharing a deep rooted Wagner influence, and by the end of this the programme is in need of some light relief.
		There's a rumbustuous aria from Moises Simons and a tender Hahn song, announced by Graham as one of her favourites and sung as such.
	www.musicomh.com /albums/susan-graham.htm (369 words)

	Music Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alban Berg, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, wrote these seven songs between 1905 and 1908, scoring them for piano accompaniment.
		Berg revised and orchestrated these Seven Early Songs in 1928, not long after his major twelve-tone opera of inequality, suffering, and cruelty,
		The blend of grown-up sensuality and mysticism that pervades these early songs seems to speak to and through both Bonney and Chailly in a far more elemental way than does Mahler’s more direct emotional simplicity.
	www.sdinfo.com /volume_7_2/music-classical-part-13-may-2000.html (1587 words)

	Jane Eaglen - Wagner, Berg and Strauss Arias
		There is little of the strong melodrama of Wagner in the music, but the music and singing is a tribute that facilitates the poetic memories and deep feelings of happiness, loss and recollections in the texts of the five poems: "The Angel", "Stand Still", "In the Greenhouse", "Agonies", and "Dreams".
		The Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, written in 1948, were in fact the last music he wrote.
		The Wagner songs are done in the Tristan-rich orchestration of Felix Mottl _ oddly uncredited _ and they're gorgeous.
	www.interchg.ubc.ca /fss/jeaglen/records/bergetal.htm (521 words)

	Arnold Schoenberg - Video and Film - V011
		Title: "Morgen (R. Strauss)' Arleen Auger sings the song in the background while we see images of waves lapping the shore, clouds moving past the sun in the sky.
		She is holding the score to Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs.
		Song of the Peasant sung by John Bröckle[?], Jester sung by Kenneth Riegel.
	www.schoenberg.at /6_archiv/video/V011_e.htm (831 words)

	Alban Berg (1885-1935) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Zwholf Variationen huber ein eigenes Thema Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.
		Alla memoria di un angelo Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.
		Violinkonzert Notes: Berg, A. Kammerkonzert [SR] p1986: -- label (Concerto for violin and orchestra (1935) : To the memory of an angel) LC data base, 3-8-88 -- (hdg.: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcberg1.htm (1296 words)

	Naude, Janet J. (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Analysis of Berg's vocal and dramatic music re-affirmed the leitmotivic nature of his oeuvre.
		It was found that the frequent use of tremolo and equivalents in the early works became a leitmotive for moments of extreme mental turmoil in the operas.
		Berg employs C major, which is a common key in his early work, for his portrayal, later, of the distance travelled from C major to twelve-tone technique and to satirise "respectability" and the "prosiness" of money.
	www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Archive/Disserts/naude.html (256 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Schoenberg: Cabaret Songs; Berg: Lieder; Webern: Seven Early Songs [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dorothy Dorow is expertly suited to the range of song styles on this selection of lieder by members of the Second Viennese School.
		From cabaret songs to romantic lied to atonal decadence, she is the kind of artist who can discover the familiar in the exotic, and vice versa.
		Her renditions of the Berg songs are evocative and lovely, and she attains perfect balance in the Schoenberg cabaret numbers between Viennese sentimentality and campy burlesque.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000000NX (373 words)

	Classical Net Review - Evelyn Lear - Songs and Arias
		She had great skill in fusing word and phrases with the music, and her interpretations of the wide variety of material on these discs are distinctive and effective.
		The Russian songs (by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and others, including a lovely and little-known "Pastorale" by Stravinsky, are very Slavic in feeling, and her Strauss lieder are equally idiomatic in capturing the flavor of fin-de-siècle Vienna.
		Her version of Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 doesn't convey its innocent nostalgia quite as well as Leontyne Price, but on the same disc, Berg's lovely and approachable Seven Early Songs, which have more depth and sincerity than the ersatz sentiment of many of Strauss's lieder, are beautifully delivered.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/v/vai01080a.html (439 words)

	Mitsuko Shirai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She will perform Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), and Der Abschied (The Farewell) from Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth).
		Early on, the international press praised the "uniquely expressive voice" (New York Magazine) of Mitsuko Shirai, and proclaimed her "a singer of high intelligence," (Daily Telegraph, London).
		Her voice encompasses the roles of the soprano and mezzo fields: Berlioz’s Nuits d’été and Mahler’s Second and Fourth Symphonies are in her repertoire along with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, and Julian Carillo’s Preludio a Colon.
	www.stmartin.edu /abbey/mitsuko_shirai.htm (591 words)

	Unfretted - Fretless Guitar Resource.
		Berg’s Seven Early Songs are a selection from dozens of songs he wrote as a young man. The selections included in this program were written between 1905 and 1908, while he was studying with Arnold Schoernberg.
		Each of the songs is from a region that was photographed by the Mars explorer several years ago, beautiful pictures from the surface of the planet.
		The songs are inspired by photographs from the surface of Mars taken in 2000, and each song comes from a different region of the planet.
	www.unfretted.com /loader.php?LINK=recentnews (3187 words)

	Personal Impressions: Prom 63
		My own reaction was far more to see the piece as a description of landscape, or any sort, rather than just a seascape and thus it formed an excellent counterweight to the Alpine splendour of the second half.
		Once again, of course, they fall too early to form part of their composer's main thesis - they still show a tendency to tonality and melody.
		Her voice is clean and versatile, and well matched to Berg's youthful adherence to some vestige of melody.
	www.promenaders.freeserve.co.uk /1998/Prom9863.html (1017 words)

	MUSIC REVIEW: Boston Philharmonic -- An Enjoyable Combination of Education and Classical Music
		Although he seeks to educate the common layman, some familiarity with the basic concepts and terminology of music theory are necessary to fully understand his lectures.
		Zander provided some historical and biographical context to the work, and pointed out similarities between pieces, such as the fact that Bach and Berg were both 22 years old when they composed their respective pieces, and Berg treated natural subjects as Bach had religious ones.
		Margaret O’Keefe, the soprano who sung Berg’s leids, did have a powerfully emotional delivery, and the Bach cantata was sung with great control by the Conservatory singers.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V121/N61/BostonPhil.61a.html (640 words)

	Chamber Music Festival
		Zemlinsky's six-movement quartet was written as a memorial to Alban Berg; at its heart stands a barcarole for solo cello, a set of variations on a deeply moving theme.
		She also includes in her programme Berg's late-romantic Seven Early Songs, a set of nature-inspired love songs, crowned with dreams.
		His wonderful Seven Romances with its dark, night-filled poems explores all possible combinations of soprano with piano trio, before bringing all four together for the impossibly moving final song, which gives voice to Shostakovich's utter dedication to music.
	www.westcorkmusic.ie /Festival2002/festival2002_archive.htm (2146 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Strauss's Four Last Songs is included on the May 29, 31 program of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
		It's Strauss's most famous group of songs with orchestra, and is sublime.
		This superb program also includes early songs by Alban Berg which have all the lyricism of Wagner's popular settings of the poems of his loving friend, Mathilde Wesendonck.
	www.magicflute.com /concert.php?special=coming_soon (294 words)

	Susan Graham: What's New
		Accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau, the disc features a wide musical repertoire including Brahms' Zigeunerlieder, Berg's Seven Early Songs, Debussy's Proses Lyriques, Poulenc's Apollinaire settings, Reynaldo Hahn's À Chloris and a comic piece about the travails of a mezzo-soprano specializing in trouser roles, written for her by Ben Moore and featured amongst the encores.
		Its release is scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the composer's death in 2004.
		Whether she was singing Brahms' gypsy songs, Debussy's atmospheric reveries or Poulenc's boulevard numbers, her voice coursed across beats and syllables, giving the music a liquid grace.
	www.susangraham.com /new.htm (794 words)

	CAMA - Student Program Notes - Renée Fleming - January 12, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Early in Renée’s career, she participated in the 1988 Metropolitan Opera National Auditions.
		numerous songs written for her, earning her the respect of other singers and praise as one of the great artists of our day.
		Lied often refers to a German song from the 19th century for voice and piano.
	www.camasb.org /yad/fleming-yadnotes04.shtml (3496 words)

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		The rich and varied program will include arias by George Frederick Handel, Alban Berg’s "Seven Early Songs," songs by André Previn ("I Can Smell the Sea Air"), John Kander ("A Letter from Sullivan Ballou"), and Carlisle Floyd ("Ain’t It a Pretty Night?"); and six songs by Robert Schumann.
		In the past three years, the festival has presented readings of such internationally acclaimed works as "Art," "The Weir," "Songs for a New World" and "Stones in His Pockets," as well as introducing audiences to the plays of up-and-coming new writers.
		For her Santa Barbara concert lang will sing songs that span her career in addition to tunes from her latest CD, "Hymns of the 49th Parallel," a tribute to her favorite Canadian songwriters — Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith and Bruce Cockburn.
	www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/entertain/readarticle.cgi?article=915 (846 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Four Last Songs/Wesendonck Lie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alban Berg (Composer), Richard Strauss (Composer), Richard Wagner (Composer), Donald Runnicles (Conductor), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Jane Eaglen (Soprano)
		That said, Eaglen draws on her experience as Isolde to paint memorable vignettes in the Wagner song cycle, shading from powerful climaxes to the most refined, Bellini-esque sotto voce.
		It's a tossup whether the Wagner or Berg's Seven Early Songs is the real highlight of this disc: certainly Eaglen's account of the latter is remarkable for its sensuality and voluptuous sense of line.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004S38A (471 words)

	REVIEW / Brilliant flashes, but Fleming's thrill is gone
		There was vigor and vitality in her vocal tone, and some rhythmic urgency to her readings that kept the stardust at bay.
		A set of Schumann songs that concluded the program found her at her most engaged, bringing bubbly zeal to "Er ist's," with its excited portents of spring, and a breathless energy to "Aufträge" ("Messages").
		The Berg also elicited a noticeable response from Fleming, who cloaked the songs' emotional variety in a wealth of shifting vocal colors.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/25/DDGLBAVES81.DTL (419 words)

	Jane Eaglen
		She can also be heard on Sony Classical's best-selling soundtrack recording from the film version of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
		Other recordings for the label include a disc of Mozart and Richard Strauss arias ( SK 60042) a disc of orchestral song cycles, including Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Berg’s Seven Early Songs ( SK 61720).
		Additional engagements include performances of Berg's Seven Early Songs, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the concert aria “Ah Perfido ”; Schöenberg's Gurrelieder; and Oberon..
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/eaglen/adbio.html (324 words)

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