Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Friedrich Cerha Succumbs To Lulu At Night

…Friedrich Cerha – who looks like something the Grimm brothers might have invented and placed in the deep woods to ask riddles of passing maidens in distress – is bound to be reduced to his association with Alban Berg by way of having completed Berg’s opera, Lulu. That’s not a bad association to have, but if you are very much a composer in your own right, it might be nice to leave the shadow of mighty Berg every so often. Or, if that hasn’t quite worked by the time you hit 88, you might go the other way.…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Friedrich Cerha Succumbs To Lulu At Night

Friedrich Cerha, Nacht, Orchesterstücke, SWR SO Baden-Baden/Freiburg, Emilio PomArico / WDR SO, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Kairos