Complete Chamber Music

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Complete Chamber Music
Schoenberg Quartet

[ Chandos Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 4 September 2002

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'The Lyric Suite is among the crowning works of modern quartet literature, and the Schoenberg Quartet has the measure of its diverse moods and twin-track trajectory of increasing dynamism and emotional intensity'
- Gramophone

Following on from the Schoenberg Quartet's acclaimed recordings of chamber music by Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, Chandos now presents Berg's complete chamber music.

With the exception of the Lyric Suite and the Chamber Concerto, all the works on this disc were written in the three years from 1910 to 1913 when Alban Berg was in his mid-twenties.

Tracks:

String Quartet, Op. 3 (1909-10) 25:53
1 I Langsam 10:18
2 II Mäßige Viertel 10:59

premiere recording
3 Hier ist Friede, Op. 4 No. 5 (1912) 4:34
from Altenberg Lieder
arranged for piano, harmonium, viola and cello by Alban Berg (1917)
Ziemlich langsam

premiere recording
Four Pieces, Op. 5 (1913) 8:02
for clarinet and piano
arranged for viola and piano by Henk Guittart (1992)
4 I Mäßig 1:28
5 II Sehr langsam 2:08
6 III Sehr rasch 1:19
7 IV Langsam 3:05

8 Adagio 13:13
Second movement from the Chamber Concerto for piano, violin and 13 wind instruments (1923-25) arranged for violin, clarinet and piano by Alban Berg (1935)

Lyric Suite (1925-26) 28:41
for string quartet
9 Allegretto giovale 3:08
10 Andante amoroso 6:15
11 Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico 3:24
12 Adagio appassionato 5:54
13 Presto delirando - Tenebroso 4:32
14 Largo desolato 5:24