Berg - Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)
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Concertos » Violin Concertos
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Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
listening to these wonderful performances side by side is cathartic...The journey is vividly delineated from the outset of the Berg. With Abbado drawing sonorities from his first-rate orchestra,... — More…
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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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Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Ehnes gives a hauntingly elegiac account of Berg’s Violin Concerto...[He] makes it sound like a requiem not only for Manon Gropius, but also for Berg himself...His mellow tone is ideally captured... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Beethoven, Berg & Bartók: Violin Concertos
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert
Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched... — More…
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Record Review, 2nd October 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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Berg: Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedGil Shaham (violin), Susanna Phillips (soprano), San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson-Thomas
Berg’s shimmering, often Mahlerian soundscapes are lovingly rendered by Tilson Thomas. Shaham brings tonal beauty and power to the sublime Concerto, while Phillips’s voice is radiant in the... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Berg & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedItzhak Perlman (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Perlman's account of the Berg Violin Concerto with the Boston orchestra under Ozawa has long occupied a respected place in the catalogue. The original reviewer in Gramophone in March 1980 was... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Building a Library, June 2000, Second Choice
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Berg, Janacek & Hartmann: Violin Concertos
RecommendedThomas Zehetmair (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Heinz Holliger
A recording that not only stands out from the pack by virtue of its subtle attention to to detail but never ceases to be true to the authentically conflicted spirit of the music...a fresh and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Building a Library, January 2006, Budget Choice
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Brahms & Berg: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
In his booklet notes, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff points out that he has out that he has played these two central pillars of the concerto repertoire literally hundreds of times, and his... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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viewing the new recording on its own terms, there's much to admire. Weithaas, a particularly thoughtful violinist, subtly makes us aware of the Viennese waltz rhythms that pervade the latter... — More…
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Special offer. Berg: Violin Concerto & Lyric Suite
RecommendedLouis Krasner, Galimir String Quartet
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Anton Webern
The strong emotions that soloist and conductor doubtless felt within six months of the composer's death ensure that there is more than enough raw and authentic feeling to counter any purely... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Building a Library, October 2004, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Performance-wise virtually nothing falls beneath a minimum high standard, Szerying’s tone warm yet refined, his phrasing musically sympathetic and his way with the faster music articulate and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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