All Berg articles
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Emerson Quartet: Infinite Voyage
An affecting farewell from one of the major quartets of today
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Baiba Skride on the Berg Violin Concerto, first movement
The Latvian violinist discusses the importance of thorough planning, together with emotional engagement, when playing this awkward work
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ReviewDouble CD review: Christian Tetzlaff, James Ehnes: Berg
Two master violinists offer opposing views of Berg
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ReviewChristian Ferras: The SWR Recordings
A fitting, if mixed, tribute to one of the great violinists of the 20th century
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ReviewConcert review: Tetzlaff Quartet
Leah Hollingsworth hears a performance of Haydn, Berg and Webern at New York’s Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, on 27 April 2022
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ReviewConcert review: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Tim Homfray hears a live-streamed performance from London’s LSO St Luke’s on 7 January 2021
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Concert review: Lisa Batiashvili (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Peter Quantrill visits the Barbican on 19 January 2020 for the performance
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ReviewBerg, Schoenberg, Webern: Complete String Quartets
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: August 2016 Description: A Second Viennese quartet survey that’s more complete than most Musicians: Diotima Quartet, Sandrine Piau (soprano) Marie-Nicole Lemieux (alto) Composer: Berg, Schoenberg, Webern Catalogue ...
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ReviewBeethoven: Romance in F major op.50. Berg: Violin Concerto. R. Fuchs: Nine Fantasy Pieces. Joachim: Hebrew Melodies
The Strad Issue: March 2016 Description: Zukerman tapings from the 1990s finally see the light of day Musicians: Pinchas Zukerman (violin/viola) Marc Neikrug (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta Composer: Beethoven; Berg; R. Fuchs; Joachim The sequence of nine pieces from Robert Fuchs’s three books of Fantasiestücke is ...
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ReviewBerg: Lyric Suite. Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht. Webern: Langsamer Satz; Five Movements op.5
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: March 2016 Description: Expressions of love by the composers of the Second Viennese School Musicians: Belcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone (viola) Antonio Meneses (cello) Composer: Berg; Schoenberg; Webern A theme of love runs through this very generously filled, 81-minute disc of music ...
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ArticleSchubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821, Sonatine D384, Das Wandern, Ungeduld, Die Vögel, Wiegenlied, Nacht und Träume. Webern: Three Pieces op.11. Berg: Four Pieces op.5
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: January 2006 Musicians: Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) Composer: Schubert, Webern, Berg Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, generally viewed as an enchantingly sunny work, reveals an underlying anguish in the hands of this much-recorded French duo. Queyras writes in the booklet of ...
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ArticleStrauss: String Sextet from Capriccio. Berg: Piano Sonata in B minor op.1 (transcr. Müller). Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht
The Strad Issue: January 2006 Musicians: Artemis Quartet, Thomas Kakuska (viola) Valentin Erben (cello) Composer: Strauss, Berg, Schönberg In this unusual programme of late-Romantic string sextets recorded in 2002, the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet collaborates with cellist Valentin Erben and violist Thomas Kakuska of the Alban Berg Quartet, ...