Berg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite – Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst

• Alban Berg (1885 - 1935): Three Pieces from Lyric Suite for String Orchestra:
• 1 Berg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite for String Orchestra: I. Andante amoroso 05:33
• 2 Berg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite for String Orchestra: II. Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico 04:05
• 3 Berg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite for String Orchestra: III. Adagio appassionato 05:41
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227:
• 4 Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227: I. Stürmisch bewegt (from Act I) [compiled by Franz Welser-Möst] 08:30
• 5 Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227: II. Sehr lebhaft (from Act II) [compiled by Franz Welser-Möst] 14:23
• 6 Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227: III. So schnell als möglich (from Act III) [compiled by Franz Welser-Möst] 18:43
• Total Runtime 56:55

Info for Berg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite – Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

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.

Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

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