The Viennese School -- Teachers and Followers: Alban Berg is an entry in pianist Steffen Schleiermacher's interesting series of recordings surveying the various acolytes -- both well known and obscure -- surrounding composer Arnold Schoenberg and his most famous adherents. Alban Berg is, through his works Wozzeck and Lulu, so readily associated with opera that we don't really think of him as a teacher; Berg's noted subservience to Schoenberg is so often emphasized in his biography that we tend to think of him as a perpetual ...
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The Viennese School -- Teachers and Followers: Alban Berg is an entry in pianist Steffen Schleiermacher's interesting series of recordings surveying the various acolytes -- both well known and obscure -- surrounding composer Arnold Schoenberg and his most famous adherents. Alban Berg is, through his works Wozzeck and Lulu, so readily associated with opera that we don't really think of him as a teacher; Berg's noted subservience to Schoenberg is so often emphasized in his biography that we tend to think of him as a perpetual student. Nevertheless, Berg was a very popular teacher and had many students in his short life, and this disc looks into works of three of them, in addition to including Berg's only work for piano solo, the famous Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1907-1909). This work is a ball of post-romantic passion that often threatens to break out of the key, and Schleiermacher's interpretation emphasizes forcefulness, accenting the harder edges of the piece and capturing little of its sense of rubato. One...
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