BERG

Violin Concerto

Three Orchestra Pieces

Piano Sonata No. 1

String Quartet No. 3 etc

CD 1

1. Violinkonzert "Dem Andenken eines Engels" (1935) - Andante - Allegretto

Gianluigi Gelmetti

2. Violinkonzert "Dem Andenken eines Engels" (1935) - Allegro - Adagio

Gianluigi Gelmetti

3. Lulu Suite (Symphonic Pieces from the opera 'Lulu') - I. Rondo (Andante) und Hymne

Sir Simon Rattle

4. Lulu Suite (Symphonic Pieces from the opera 'Lulu') - II. Ostinato (Allegro)

Sir Simon Rattle

5. Lulu Suite (Symphonic Pieces from the opera 'Lulu') - III. Lied der Lulu (Comodo)

Arleen Augér

6. Lulu Suite (Symphonic Pieces from the opera 'Lulu') - IV. Variationen (Moderato)

Sir Simon Rattle

7. Lulu Suite (Symphonic Pieces from the opera 'Lulu') - V. Adagio

Arleen Augér

8. Drei Orchesterstücke Op. 6 - I. Präludium: Langsam

Ingo Metzmacher

9. Drei Orchesterstücke Op. 6 - II. Reigen: Anfangs etwas zögernd - Leicht beschwingt

Ingo Metzmacher

10. Drei Orchesterstücke Op. 6 - III. Marsch. Mässiges Marschtempo

Ingo Metzmacher

CD 2

1. Piano Sonata Op. 1

Peter Donohoe

2. String Quartet Op. 3 - I. Langsam

Alban Berg Quartett

3. String Quartet Op. 3 - II. Mäßige Viertel

Alban Berg Quartett

4. Lyric Suite - I. Allegretto giovale

Alban Berg Quartett

5. Lyric Suite - II. Andante amoroso

Alban Berg Quartett

6. Lyric Suite - III. Allegro misterioso

Alban Berg Quartett

7. Lyric Suite - IV. Adagio appassionato

Alban Berg Quartett

8. Lyric Suite - V. Presto delirando

Alban Berg Quartett

9. Lyric Suite - VI. Largo desolato

Alban Berg Quartett

10. Sieben Frühe Lieder - 1. Nacht

Matthias Pintscher

11. Sieben Frühe Lieder - 2. Schilflied

Matthias Pintscher

12. Sieben Frühe Lieder - 3. Die Nachtigall

Matthias Pintscher

13. Sieben Frühe Lieder - 4. Traumgekrönt

Matthias Pintscher

14. Sieben Frühe Lieder - 5. Im Zimmer

Matthias Pintscher

15. Sieben Frühe Lieder - 6. Liebesode

Matthias Pintscher

16. Sieben Frühe Lieder - 7. Sommertage

Matthias Pintscher

20th Century Classics - Berg

Alban Berg (1885-1935) is, arguably, the most approachable of the three great serialist composers who were working in Vienna at the turn of the century – Schoenberg and Webern being the other two. Of the three it was Berg's whose technique was less stringently atonal: his music has a romantic lyricism that is largely absent from the later music of his two friends. This is no better illustrated than in his last work, the gorgeously wistful Violin Concerto of 1935, a work that is dedicated 'To the Memory of an Angel' – the angel being the recently deceased, 18-year-old, Manon Gropius, daughter of the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius and Mahler's surviving widow Alma. The other works in this set help to make it the perfect introduction to Berg's music, from the Suite from his notorious opera Lulu to the beautiful Lyric Suite and the early lyricism of the Seven Early Songs.

EMI Classics 2cds 9072112