RECORDING OF THE MONTH


RECORDING OF THE MONTH

BARGAIN OF THE MONTH
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A London Symphony
Oboe Concerto
£11 post free World-wide


RACHMANINOV Elegy, Preludes, Piano concerto 3
£12 post free World-wide

CHAUSSON, DEBUSSY
RACHMANINOV
TRios
2CDs £16 post free World-wide
Search
What's New
Classical CD Reviews
Live Reviews
Jazz CD Reviews
Composers
Resources
Contact Us

Every Day we post 10 new Classical CD and DVD reviews. A free weekly summary is available by e-mail. MusicWeb is not a subscription site and it is our advertisers that pay for it. Please visit their sites regularly to see if anything might interest you. Purchasing from them keeps MusicWeb free.
  Classical Editor: Rob Barnett  
Founder Len Mullenger   
  

DVD REVIEW
MusikTriennale Köln 2000
BERG: Lulu Suite (excerpts)
DEBUSSY: Le jet d’eau; Trois ballades de François Villon
STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (complete)
Christine Schafer (soprano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez
Filmed in April 2000, Philharmonie, Köln
Producer: Volker Dieckmann
Director: Janos Darvas
TDK DV-MTKBO [101 minutes]

BUY NOW 

AmazonUK   AmazonUS


The no-more-than-adequate booklet notes complement the booklet listing. Only four movements of the five that make up Berg’s Lulu Suite are mentioned, indeed played, but there’s no explanation of why the opening and most substantial part (‘Rondo’) is missing. Perhaps it was not played but someone should be on the ball and say this. (Boulez recorded the whole suite in the ’seventies in New York for CBS, now Sony.) The Suite is thus more fragmentary-sounding than Berg, in his symphonic condensing of his (unfinished) opera, intended. Friedrich Cerha has subsequently completed Lulu, which Boulez has