Innocence Lost: The Berg-Debussy Project starts from an intriguing premise: mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger and pianist Jeanne Golan chose two classic fin de (XIXme) siècle song sets, Debussy's Trois Chansons de Bilitis (1897-1898) and Berg's Sieben Frühe Lieder (1908), which are stylistically worlds apart, but which each express a new direction in musical languages arising at the end of the Romantic era. The performers then asked 10 contemporary composers to each write a song corresponding to one of the songs by Berg or ...
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Innocence Lost: The Berg-Debussy Project starts from an intriguing premise: mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger and pianist Jeanne Golan chose two classic fin de (XIXme) siècle song sets, Debussy's Trois Chansons de Bilitis (1897-1898) and Berg's Sieben Frühe Lieder (1908), which are stylistically worlds apart, but which each express a new direction in musical languages arising at the end of the Romantic era. The performers then asked 10 contemporary composers to each write a song corresponding to one of the songs by Berg or Debussy, that expresses something of the changes in music at the beginning of the twenty first century. The CD includes the three Debussy songs, then three new songs, then the Berg, and then seven new songs. After studying the texts, Nessinger and Golan discovered a common thread of the loss of innocence running through all of them, giving the whole enterprise a nice thematic unity.It's a brilliant conception that one wishes more adventurous and forward-looking ensembles and performers...
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