Violin Concerto; 3 Orchestral Pieces

by Alban Berg

Violin Concerto; 3 Orchestral Pieces cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1985
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Country: Austria
  • Length: 46:49
  • Community rating: 4.19/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This release compiles definitive performances of the Second Viennese School master's highly emotional, twelve-tone compositions. The deeply elegiac Violin Concerto, dedicated 'To the memory of an angel', beautifully demonstrates Berg's unique ability to infuse strict, mathematical serialist techniques with profound, romantic grief.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern, acoustic, death, dissonant, grief, orchestral, symphonic, atonal, virtuosic, long-form

Tracklist

  1. 1. Andante - Allegretto (11:02)
  2. 2. Allegro - Adagio (6:30)
  3. 1. Pr盲ludium (4:46)
  4. 2. Reigen (5:02)
  5. 3. Marsch (8:53)

Credits

  • Alban Berg - primary artist, composed by
  • Gidon Kremer - primary artist, violin
  • Sir Colin Davis - primary artist, conductor [conducted by]
  • Arnold Schoenberg - illustration [portrait of alban berg]
  • Symphonie-Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Primary Artist

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