What a delightful album this is. Of Love and Transience takes soprano Paula Sides and pianist Sergey Rybin back to the early decades of the last century. Vienna…
What a delightful album this is. Of Love and Transience takes soprano Paula Sides and pianist Sergey Rybin back to the early decades of the last century. Vienna and its orbit were then producing songs of extraordinary richness, even as the old certainties, musical and political, were crumbling beneath them. Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder make an inviting start. They were written between 1905 and 1908 while he was Schoenberg’s pupil, though he held them back from publication until 1928.
They belong to a young man still in love with the sound of the 19th century, yet already restless.
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