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Berg: Lyric Suite (the Juilliard String Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg, who died in 1935; is rapidly coming into his own. His opera Wozzeck is enjoying a spate of concert performances (Columbia and Artist Records have recorded excerpts), and it will be a featured work at this year's Salzburg Festival. The Lyric Suite, composed six years later (1926), comes far more strangely to the ear, is not recommended for those not already pleased to make Berg's acquaintance. Performance and recording: excellent...
...other comic characters are all foils to Falstaff, and many, are treated as caricatures rather than as characterizations. Bardolph, whose "zeal burns in his nose," and Doll Tearsheet, "as common as the way between St. Alban's and London," both get inspired treatment. The other comic characters join vigorously in the numerous brawls, and seem to get a good deal...
...Gamble? Some advance-guard music lovers have complained that instead of spending money on works such as Don Carlo and The Flying Dutchman, which were never highly profitable, Bing should have gambled the same money on a more contemporary work, such as Alban Berg's formidable atonal opera, Wozzeck. Bing's answer to that is that he would like to do Wozzeck, but he cannot afford right now to overlook the fate of another contemporary opera, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which was withdrawn after two seasons, so offended one opera lover that he spat...
...Mario Peragallo, 40, has adopted the twelve-tone theories of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, insists he tries to make "dodecaphonic music more beautiful. . . restore some forms of cadence and free melody." At Venice last week his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra jogged along with clearly marked rhythms and occasionally almost a melody...
...success." He was not overly concerned with where he stood in the great operatic tradition. He had not discovered anything brand-new, and he knew it. Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek and the late Kurt Weill had broken the ground for him in Germany in the '20s. Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg's gloomy Wozzeck had moved opera musically miles from the Verdis and Monteverdis...