Alban Berg

aus Sieben frühe Lieder. Par BERG ALBAN. From Sieben Frühe Lieder, the choral transcription of Im Zimmer provides a fascinating glimpse at the compositional bent of a young Alban Berg, decried by his mentor Arnold Schönberg as “too vocal.” While Schönberg may have succeeded in re-training his pupil, the Seven Early Songs still live one hundred years later to please our modern ears./ Répertoire / Double Chœur Mixte SATB

Par BERG ALBAN. Composed by a young Berg, while studying with Schoenberg, these Seven Early Songs would be revisited and reworked ten years later, and then again ten years after that. Perhaps influenced by Mahler, Berg created orchestral settings of these songs, in addition to the voice and piano versions./ Répertoire / Voix Haute et Orchestre

Par BERG ALBAN. Le compositeur autrichien Alban Berg était un élève d'Arnold Schoenberg, avec qui il a exercé une longue amitié. Il était connu comme le premier chasseur de l'atonalité. Malgré ce fait dans ses oeuvres, il voulait faire partie des grandes traditions viennoises. Par conséquent, il a également été appelé 'l'homme classique de la musique moderne./ Répertoire / Piano

Par BERG ALBAN. Alban Berg's Sonata Opus 1 for Piano has often been termed as a milestone in early 20th century music. The sonata clearly stems from the Romantic period, but the 'modern' harmonies and complex thematic developments play a part in transcending boundaries and ushering in a new era. The arrangement by Christophe Dejour is as close to the original source as possible./ Répertoire / Guitare

Par BERG ALBAN. Analysen - Textkorrekturen - Interpretationen/ Répertoire / Divers

An authoritative scholarly Henle Urtext edition of Alban Berg's Piano Sonata Op.1 edited by Ullrich Scheideler.Berg's pupil Adorno once said 'Whoever is seriously trying to comprehend Berg's music should closely applythemselves to the eleven-page piano sonata'. It is tempting to enlarge upon this statement: Whoever is trying to get to grips with New Music will not be able to avoid Berg's opus 1. It is one of the most frequently played sonatasamongst the Second Viennese School piano compositions. With this publication Henle is introducing Urtext editions to classical modernism. Once again pianists will find flawless engraving an absolutely reliable musical text and acommentary based on the sources.

String Quartet op. 3-Alban Berg?s String Quartet can be considered to be one of the founding works of the Second Viennese School. Already composed in 1910 and first published in 1920 it was the last composition the25-year-old wrote under the tutelage of Arnold Schoenberg who admired ?the fullness and unconstraint of his musical language the strength and sureness of its presentation its careful working and significantoriginality?. Even today the extremely complex work places the highest technical demands on the interpreters.

The Henle Urtext edition of Alban Berg's Four Pieces For Clarinet And Piano Op.5 edited by Ullrich Scheideler.

According to the Critical Complete Edition. Par BERG ALBAN. UE presents a new critical edition of Berg's Violin Concerto, which seeks to correct errors which have been incorporated in the score since its first publication. Carefully researched, this new definitive score is now the most accurate. Published in oversize (11' x 13') hardbound format. Dur.: 22'-25'/ Répertoire / Violon et Orchestre

The Violin Concerto was commissioned by Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. It was first performed by Gidon Kremer (violin) and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchester conducted by DennisRussell Davies at the Musikhalle Hamburg Germany on 29 August 2003. Interpolated within this one-minute-one-movement layout is a recurrent refrain where the soloist articulates one of the basic harmonic foundations of anumber of the one minute sections (six dominant 7ths - on E F sharp C A B D) in an undisguised Bachian fashion. The slow arpeggios in the later variants of the refrain not unexpectedly find themselves sharing a bed with theopening of Berg's Violin Concerto. Nyman has effectively adopted Berg's orchestral template with two exceptions - the omission of the alto Saxophone and replaced Berg's Percussion section with Marimba and Vibraphone mallet instruments which intertwine with the soloist in the Concerto. Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was dedicated to 'the memory of an angel' Manon Gropius. Nyman's Concerto was dedicated to the memory of DanielToscan du Plantier a friend and neighbour - in Nyman's words 'certainly no angel but a major figure in the recording and film industries'. Arranged for solo Violin and Piano accompaniment the duration of thiswork is approximately: 25 minutes.