Alban Berg
Born: 9th February 1885, Vienna, Austria
Died: 24th December 1935, Vienna, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively small oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century for his expressive style encompassing "entire worlds of emotion and structure".
Berg was born and lived in Vienna. He began to compose at the age of fifteen.
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Leonskaja celebrates the Second Viennese School
27th Sep 2024
Elisabeth Leonskaja's persuasive and engaging recital of piano works that are often misunderstood is an essential listen, whether mention of the Second Viennese School excites you or normally sends you running for the hills.
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A fin-de-siècle voyage with Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet
8th Sep 2023
The quartet - joined by Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou - go out on a high after nearly fifty years of music-making, with a programme of early twentieth-century works themed around journeying and longing.
Popular Genres: Berg
Popular Works: Berg
- 3 Wozzeck-Fragments (7)
- 5 Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4 (21)
- Adagio - 2nd movement of the Chamber Concert (9)
- An Leukon (6)
- Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments (34)
- Der Wein (16)
- Die Nachtigall (25)
- Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6 (34)
- Er klagt, daß der Frühling so kurz blüht (6)
- Erster Verlust (3)
- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (3)
- Ferne Lieder (5)
- Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (39)
- Fraue, du Süsse (3)
- Grabschrift (3)
- Im Zimmer (7)
- Jugendlieder (9)
- Lulu (17)
- Lulu-Suite (Five Symphonic Pieces) for soprano and orchestra (36)
- Lyric Suite - for string quartet (1926) (36)
- Lyric Suite - for soprano and string quartet (6)
- Lyric Suite - three movements for string orchestra (1928) (32)
- Mignon (4)
- Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (128)
- Regen (3)
- Schliesse mir die Augen beide (11)
- Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1907 version) (10)
- Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1925 version) (12)
- Sehnsucht I (4)
- Sieben frühe Lieder (73)
- Sommertage (4)
- Spaziergang (3)
- String Quartet, Op. 3 (35)
- Tiefe Sehnsucht (3)
- Traumgekrönt (4)
- Über den Bergen (3)
- Variations (12) on an Original Theme (1908) (3)
- Vier Lieder, Op. 2 (26)
- Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935) (95)
- Wozzeck (30)
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Special offer. Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
Isabelle Faust (violin) Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th February 2012
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
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James Ehnes (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Clair-Obscur | Strauss - Berg - Zemlinsky
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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New. In One Movement - Liszt, Berg, Fujikura
Yu Kosuge (piano), Benedict Kloeckner (violoncello)
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New. In the Heat of Classics
Thomas Adès (piano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Terry Wey (countertenor), Paul O'Dette (lute), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Marcel Reyans (tenor), Nicolas Courjal (bass), Samuel Ramey (baritone), Dong Hyek Lim (piano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Hans Hotter (baritone), Vilde Frang (violin), Hélène Grimaud (piano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Antoine Palloc (piano), Sharon Kam (clarinet), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Catherine King (mezzo-soprano), Jacob Heringman (lute), Stéphane Grappelli (violin), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Jack Sewing (double bass), Marc Fosset (guitar), Martin Taylor (guitar), Christian Ivaldi (piano), Michel Debost (flute), Monique Rollin (zither), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Nathan Berg (baritone), James Morris (bass-baritone), Dan Dressen (tenor), Peter Barkworth (narrator), Lesley Garrett (vocals), Michael Ball (vocals), Dalal (piano), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Gottlob Frick (bass), Jean-François Heisser (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Sarah Chang (violin), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Martha Argerich (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Peter Sadlo (percussion), Biao Li (percussion), Claudio Estay (percussion), Philipp Jungk (percussion), Dmitri Alexeev (piano), Anne Fournet (narrator), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Kammersensemble de Paris, Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Orchestre de Paris, Il Pomo d'Oro, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Il Giardino d'Amore Choir, Il Giardino d'Amore, Opéra National de Lyon, London Classical Players, Orchestre National de France, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Sinfonietta, Staatskapelle Dresden, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sextuor Jeanne Loriod, Concentus musicus Wien, English Chamber Orchestra, Brentano Quartet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Wiener Symphoniker, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Estonian State Academic Choir, Helsinki University Choir, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Tiffin Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson, Robert Irving, William Christie, Armin Jordan, John Nelson, Evgeny Svetlanov, Stephen Stubbs, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alexandre Desplat, Maxim Emelyanychev, Thomas Dausgaard, André Previn, Ton Koopman, Kent Nagano, Stefan Plewniak, Louis Langrée, Sir Roger Norrington, Didier Benetti, Philip Ledger, Sir Charles Groves, Vernon Handley, Robin Ticciati, Bernard Haitink, Gregor Bühl, Jonathan Tunick, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Marius Constant, Sir Neville Marriner, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Jeanne Loriod, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Carlo Maria Giulini, Philip Brunelle, Michel Legrand, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Herbert von Karajan, Libor Pešek, Otto Klemperer, Jean Martinon, Paavo Berglund, André Cluytens, Daniel Barenboim
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