Beatrice Berrut
Jugendstil
Album - Classical, Music, Piano, Solo Instrumental
On Jugendstil, Swiss pianist Beatrice Berrut focuses on Mahler and Schoenberg, two musical titans of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. Here, she gives us her own transcriptions—and in the case of Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, a Liszt-style paraphrase—that wonderfully translate the orchestral to the pianistic. The famous “Adagietto” from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 shimmers and sings, while the movements from No. 3 and No. 6 cleverly retain the originals’ mood and scale. The concluding paraphrase of Schoenberg’s sextet is a tour de force, Berrut getting under the skin of this emotionally wrought and deeply moving work.
Jugendstil
Beatrice Berrut
On Jugendstil, Swiss pianist Beatrice Berrut focuses on Mahler and Schoenberg, two musical titans of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. Here, she gives us her own transcriptions—and in the case of Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, a Liszt-style paraphrase—that wonderfully translate the orchestral to the pianistic. The famous “Adagietto” from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 shimmers and sings, while the movements from No. 3 and No. 6 cleverly retain the originals’ mood and scale. The concluding paraphrase of Schoenberg’s sextet is a tour de force, Berrut getting under the skin of this emotionally wrought and deeply moving work.
