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Berg: Violin Concerto

~ Alban Berg (Composer)
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  • Composer: Alban Berg
  • Audio CD (5 Oct 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • ASIN: B000001GH9
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 93,212 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" - 1. Andante - Allegro11:35Album Only
Listen  2. Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" - 2. Allegro - Adagio16:12Album Only
Listen  3. "Gesungene Zeit" 1991/92 - Music for violin and orchestra - 1. Beginning: quasi senza14:39Album Only
Listen  4. "Gesungene Zeit" 1991/92 - Music for violin and orchestra - 2. Takt 179: meno mosso 9:56Album Only


On this CD:
  1. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 'To the memory of an angel'
    Composed by Alban Berg
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Conducted by James Levine

  2. Gesungene Zeit
    Composed by Wolfgang Rihm
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Conducted by James Levine


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Berg's Violin Concerto (1935) is considered by many the most accessible and emotionally engaging piece of music in the atonal idiom. His last completed work, the concerto was written as a memorial "to an angel" upon the premature death of Alma Mahler's daughter Manon Gropius. But as with all of Berg's oeuvre, an autobiography of the composer's inner life is also thoroughly woven into the score. From the deeply reflective nuances of its quiet opening, Anne-Sophie Mutter takes the listener into the heart of Berg's ambiguous lyricism. There's a keen grasp, both by soloist and conductor James Levine, of the work's intricate structure and progression, but never at the price of a coldly disengaged intellectualism. Mutter summons a marvellous array of shadings and colours, effecting a truly haunting impression as tonality makes its ghostlike apparition, first in the guise of a folk song and, in the final part--following a violent cataclysm rendered with fiery power--in the variations on a quote from a chorale by Bach. Throughout, Mutter's intuitive realisation of the psychic journey traced by Berg reveals the work's significance as closer in spirit to a requiem of farewell than a traditional concerto. Mutter's command of an animated tone that pulsates with expressive purpose inspired the contemporary German composer Wolfgang Rihm to write the other work on this disc, Gesungene Zeit ("Time Chant"). It's a mesmerising neo-expressionist poem of shimmering, elongated string lines--later punctuated with dire eruptions from full orchestra--that seem to form an ether over which the soloist floats. Any sense of time measured in bars becomes negated as Mutter intones Siren-like threads of sound in the highest register. As with the Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 2 and other contemporary works she champions, Mutter plays with a gripping immediacy that indeed makes Rihm's imaginative novelty seem tailor-made for her. --Thomas May

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5.0 out of 5 stars Berg's ingenious mixture of 12 tone tech. and romanticism, 21 Jun 2000
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This is one of the best works performed by Anne Sophie Mutter. Her grasp of Berg's musical ideas is indeed astonishing. With her interpretation, she managed to bring forth the romantic side of Berg's 12 tone serial technic. The Levine was able to synchronise the orchestra with the violin solo, and the whole music flows homogenically and without disturbances caused by misinterpretation or misorchestration. Eversice I bought my first CD from Deutsche Grammophone I realised, that as a audiophile I have no other choice than to buy ONLY Deutsche Grammophone discs. The recording quality of these discs is excellent. Summary : Interpretation - 9/10 Orchestration - 9/10 Music - 10/10 Sound quality - 9/10
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