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Berg - Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)
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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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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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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 - Orchestral Works
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) & Robert Murray (tenor)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago
Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight,... — More…
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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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Special offer. 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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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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Special offer. The Swr Recordings: Christian Ferras Plays Violin Concertos and Chamber Music
Christian Ferras (violin), Pierre Barbizet, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart Des Swr, Swr Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Hans Müller-Kray
Herbert Blomstedt, Michael Gielen
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Special offer. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker - Alban Berg: Violin Concerto; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Augustin Hadelich (violin), Christiane Karg (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
