Alban Berg Ensemble Wien – Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59, TrV 227 (arr. Martyn Harry)

To present exciting programmes with an up-to-date flair, to invite audiences on journeys of artistic discovery, to communicate music in a manner at once open-minded, uncompromising and poetic: these are the guiding precepts of the seven musicians who make up the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien. The ensemble was founded in 2016 when the members of the renowned Hugo Wolf Quartet (violinists Sebastian Gürtler and Régis Bringolf, violist Subin Lee and cellist Florian Berner) joined forces with Ariane Haering (piano), Silvia Careddu (flute) and Alexander Neubauer (clarinet). The Alban Berg Foundation has bestowed its name upon them in appreciation of their artistic vision and in recognition of their innovative path in the spirit of Alban Berg: attachment to the past, commitment to the future. Every year the Vienna Musikverein invites the ensemble to present its own concert series in the Brahmssaal. Since 2018 it has also mounted its own festival: the BERGfrühling Chamber Music Festival on Lake Ossiach. Mahler’s fragmentary Tenth Symphony and Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier were both written in 1910, Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony four years earlier. Each of these works represents a different facet, a different encounter with the tension between old and new that dominated the age, a tension frequently said to be unbearable. Each of them writes its past afresh in order to be contemporary. As in all his symphonies, Gustav Mahler wrestled with his great forebear Beethoven. And yet, at the same time, he unveiled new worlds of form and harmony, new resources of orchestral expression. Schoenberg, in his opus 9, finally “parted ways” (his own words) from the influence of Richard Wagner and pressed forward toward a distinctive musical language that would eventually lead to the dodecaphonic method. His language dramatizes the disruption between the chromatic complexities of late romanticism and an analytical approach that was only nascent at the time. Richard Strauss was more playful in his take on the conflict between tradition and modernity. Building on Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s ironically nostalgic libretto, he created an illusory rococo world into which he wove historical inspirations from his own musical idiom – a tour de force of reality and illusion in which the old verities lose their form and meaning. (© Philipp Bloom / Universal Music GmbH) Follow Alban Berg Ensemble Wien: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/albanbergensemblewien Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bergensemble Homepage: http://www.albanbergensemblewien.com #AlbanBerg #AlbanBergEnsembleWien #Rosenkavalier Alban Berg Ensemble Wien – Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59, TrV 227 (arr. Martyn Harry) Listen to Alban Berg Ensemble Wien : https://DG.lnk.to/AlbanBerg Subscribe here for more classical video clips – The Best Of Classical Music: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_DG Discover full concert performances on DG Premium - registration and basic library are free: https://www.dg-premium.com _______________ Find Deutsche Grammophon Online Homepage: http://deutschegrammophon.com Facebook: http://fb.com/deutschegrammophon Twitter: http://twitter.com/dgclassics Instagram: http://instagram.com/dgclassics Newsletter: https://deutschegrammophon.com/newsletter _______________ 最优质古典音乐 – 此处订阅: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_DG Le meilleur de la musique classique. Pour vous abonner cliquez ici: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_DG 最高のクラシック音楽―登録はこちら: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_DG 최고의 클래식음악을 구독하세요: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_DG Лучшая Классическая Музыка - Подписаться: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_DG La mejor música clásica - Suscríbase aquí: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_DG #AlbanBerg #AlbanBergEnsembleWien #Rosenkavalier