BERIO/ BERG/ GERSHWIN: Crazy Girl Crazy

Berg, Alban, Berio, Luciano, Gershwin, George

Hannigan, Barbara, Ludwig Orchestra

Alpha 293

Whether singing, conducting, dancing or acting, the Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan is a constant source of fascination. Alpha Classics is proud to enter her world and her very first album as singer and conductor in 2017: with the Amsterdam based orchestra Ensemble Ludwig, of which she is associate artist.

Barbara Hannigan has devised a programme including Berg's Lulu Suite and Gershwin's Girl Crazy in a Suite newly arranged by the multi award- winning American composer Bill Elliott. To complement these two pieces, she has recorded Berio's spectacular Sequenza III for solo voice.

An outstanding soprano, a distinguished interpreter of the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, an all-round artist who creates a sensation on concert platforms and in opera houses throughout the world, Barbara Hannigan has enriched her palette over the past few years by devoting a portion of her activities to conducting. This album in the form of a musical portrait of the artist, is completed by a DVD of a film made by Mathieu Amalric during the rehearsals and recording sessions. It plunges into the heart of the orchestra with a very personal look at the exchanges between conductor and musicians.

Over the next few years, Alpha will accompany Barbara Hannigan in a number of projects from very varied horizons.

Works:

• Berg: Lulu-Suite (Five Symphonic Pieces) for soprano and orchestra
• Berio: Sequenza III for woman's voice

https://youtu.be/DJBy5AT-X8g

CD, DVD x 1

Alpha

20.09.17

3760014192937

BBC Music Magazine: 'Recording of the Month' (December 2017)
Opéra Magazine: 'Diamant d'Opéra Magazine' (2017)
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (2018)
Télérama ffff (2017)