11.04.2024

CHRISTIANE KARG with Berg's "Seven Early Songs“ in Copenhagen

Alban Berg's lied collection "Seven Early Songs", which he wrote as a young composer between 1905 and 1908, originally for medium-high voice, is breathtakingly beautiful and was taken up again around twenty years later to transform it - now for soprano - into marvellously beautiful orchestral music.

With these miniatures, the young Berg explored the song tradition of the 19th century - in particular Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler - and spanned an arc from late Romanticism to early forms of atonality with these stylistically highly diverse songs. The influence of Mahler is clearly perceptible in these, as well as all other song compositions of the Second Viennese School.

Christiane Karg, an internationally acclaimed singer for her richly nuanced performances, will present these exquisite songs on 11, 13 and 14 April at the DR Koncerthuset together with the Danish Radio Orchestra under the baton of its chief conductor Fabio Luisi. The recording of the concert on 11 April will also be broadcast on 23 April (14:05) as part of the series "Das Ö1 Konzert" on Ö1.