popular music: Alban Berg Quartet

popular music: Alban Berg Quartet

popular music:

Alban Berg Quartet

Kronos Quartet: At The Grave of Richard Wagner

Kronos Quartet, Alban Berg, ...

Nonesuch, 1993

Quite excellent all around
This is a truly fascinating CD. Perhaps it doesn't have the greatest balance in terms of pieces, but that certainly shouldn't put you off at all. The opening piece (the title track if you want to be "pop") is a truly sublime Lisztian work - you'll find none of the ...

Alban Berg: Lyric Suite

Kronos Quartet, Dawn Upshaw

Nonesuch, 2003

New way to understand a masterpiece
The Lyric Suite is , undoubtedly , one of the most important work of chamber music written in 20th century. After the death of the people involved in one obscure affair of the composer's life , we know that this work describes step by step one impossible passion ...

Schubert String Quartets 13-15/String Quintet/Trout Quintet

Alban Berg Quartet, Heinrich Schiff, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

fantastic performance by the Alban Berg Quartet
This set is something special: I have heard many performances of this beautiful music, but this one is my favorite (better than the Julliard, Emerson, Melos, Hugarian, etc. performances that I'm familiar with).

Beethoven: The Late String Quartets

Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg Quartet

EMI Classics, 2005

Free advice, etc.
Since no one's reviewed this, I'll wade in, ignorance notwithstanding. Just bought this set last night so I don't know what to think yet. Picked it over the competing Emerson S.Q. set because a guide I consulted (I was in Borders) suggested that while Emerson's ...

In Honor of Rudolf Kolisch

Leonard Sharrow, Eric Simon, ...

Music & Arts Program, 2006

Historical Documents For Specialists & Collectors
This Music & Arts CD set (6 discs for the price of four) contains what can be rightly regarded as "urtext" performances of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Bartok. It is in honor of a modern music pioneer, Rudolph Kolisch (1896-1978), the Austrian violinist whose sister ...

Schubert - String Quintet in C / Alban Berg Quartet · Schiff

Franz Schubert, Alban Berg Quartett, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

The best...very Viennese...very Schubert
Although many American concert-goers and players prefer the Emerson with Rostro, after listening to the Berg, I still prefer it. There is more idiomatic playing, with the right amount of rubato. It just seems "right". If you've played the quintet yourself, you'll ...

Mozart: The Ten Great String Quartets

Alban Berg String Quartet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

EMI Classics, 1992

Marvellous Mozart
This is a marvellous album, and one of the best modern-instrument versions. The Berg go at this music with determination and passion and precision, and the result is often electifying. To my mind their playing is better here, and they are better recorded, than in ...

Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets / Alban Berg Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg Quartet, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

VERY HIGH QUALITY RENDITION
All the performances on this set of the Beethoven String Quartets are of the highest quality. Particularly outstanding is the performance of Op 59 no 1 Intonation, expression, the ability of the players to meld together, and the dynamic range is all superb. One small ...

Alban Berg Quartet Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 14 - 23

Alban Berg Quartet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Warner Music France, 2002

A bargain - and perfectg ensemble
The Alban Berg Quartet are legendary and these CD's contain some of their best work. They seem like one instrument and it is difficult to imagine a closer ensemble. Particularly affecting are the slower movements, where Mozart's sublime music is allowed time to ...

Mozart: Chamber Music
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Performer: Alban Berg Quartet

EMI Classics, 2003

Schönberg/Webern/Berg: Streichquartette
Jurnjakob Timm, Alban Berg, ...

Berlin Classics, 1995

Dvorák, Schumann: Piano Quintets

Valentin Erben, Antonin Dvorak, ...

Angel Records, 2000

Intense performances dominated by the strings
These readings of the Schumann and Dvorak piano quintets come from live concerts, the Schumann from Carnegie Hall (1995), the Dvorak from Vienna (1993). Both are dominated by the Alban Berg Quartet, who seemed to have only two modes, impressively intense and ...

Brahms: String Quartets (Complete) [Remastered] [Japan]

Johannes Brahms

EMI, 2005

All one could ask for
There's no praise too high for the imagination and vibrancy of these performances. Brahms's three string quartets are not among his masterpieces, and a listener like me, who has long loved Brahms's quintets, sextets, and trios, could wait a long time to be inspired by ...

Intimate Letters

Joel Krosnick, Alban Berg, ...

Sony, 1996

dramatic, fabulous 20th century chamber music
One doesn't have to know the history of Janacek's String Quartet # 1 to understand its meaning; upon the first hearing one is struck by the light/dark, man/woman tension, the violin's nervous anxiety, the cello's dark rage. It is a fascinating, brilliant piece, ...