Berg Complete Songs
This bundle contains the complete songs by Alban Berg (1885-1935), including the complete Jugendlieder. Throughout this musical journey we witness Berg’s development as a composer, setting out in his Jugendlieder under the influence of Schubert, Schumann, Wagner and Mahler, through his chromatic and enharmonic language inspired by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf, towards his own personal style in which the twelve-tone system of his teacher Arnold Schönberg finds its free, fluid and lyrical expression. The excellent singers include Elisabetta Lombardi, Myung Jea Kho, Mark Milhofer, Mauro Borgioni and speaker Stefanie Köhler. Another remarkable recording project by pianist Filippo Farinelli, who already make wonderful recordings of the complete songs by Ravel, Jolivet, Dallapiccola and chamber music by Debussy, Koechlin and Jolivet for Brilliant Classics.