Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Composer
Along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, Austrian composer Alban Berg was a principal member of the so-called Second Viennese School, combining Mahlerian late-Romanticism with the system of twelve-tone composition developed by his lifelong mentor Schoenberg.
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Further Reading: Berg
Recording of the Week, Barbara Hannigan sings and conducts music by Berg, Berio, and Gershwin
22nd September 2017
Katherine listens to the Canadian soprano's bold new disc Crazy Girl Crazy, centring on Berg's Lulu.
Favourites, Alban Berg
James sifts through the music of Alban Berg and offers his recommended recordings.
Popular Works: Berg
- 3 Wozzeck-Fragments (6)
- 5 Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4 (17)
- Adagio - 2nd movement of the Chamber Concert (7)
- An Leukon (8)
- Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments (30)
- Der Wein (14)
- Die Nachtigall (18)
- Dort links geht's in die Stadt (from Wozzeck) (3)
- Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6 (33)
- 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 (34)
- Fraue, du Süsse (3)
- Ich will die Fluren meiden (3)
- Im Zimmer (5)
- Jugendlieder (5)
- Lulu (24)
- Lulu-Suite (Five Symphonic Pieces) for soprano and orchestra (26)
- Lyric Suite - for string quartet (1926) (36)
- Lyric Suite - for soprano and string quartet (6)
- Lyric Suite - three movements for string orchestra (1928) (12)
- Mignon (3)
- Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (91)
- Regen (3)
- Schliesse mir die Augen beide (9)
- Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1907 version) (9)
- Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1925 version) (12)
- Sehnsucht I (4)
- Sieben frühe Lieder (48)
- Sommertage (4)
- Spaziergang (3)
- String Quartet, Op. 3 (24)
- Tiefe Sehnsucht (3)
- Über den Bergen (3)
- Und ist kein Betrug (from Wozzeck) (3)
- Vier Lieder, Op. 2 (17)
- Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935) (82)
- Wozzeck (28)
