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ClassicsToday.com Review Digest for Works by Alban Berg


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COMPOSER ALBUM/WORK TITLE PERFORMER LABEL CATALOG MEDIUM RATING
Arias & Duets by Mozart, Wagner, Humperdinck, Schumann, Korngold, Berg, & Strauss
ARIAS
Matthias Goerne (baritone); Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck
Decca 467 263-2 CD 8/9
Songs & arias by Dowland, Mozart, Schumann, Strauss, Grieg, Sibelius, Berg, Purcell, Pergolesi, Previn, others
THE RADIANT VOICE OF BARBARA BONNEY
Barbara Bonney (soprano); various pianists
Various orchestras & conductors

Decca 468 818-2 CD 7/7
Songs by Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg
VIOLETA URMANA--LIEDER
Violeta Urmana (soprano); Jan Philip Schulze (piano)

Farao 108022 CD 10/10
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MAX BRUCH
ALBAN BERG
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in E minor Op. 64
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra No. 1 in G minor Op. 26
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
Josef Suk (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl
Supraphon 3663-2 011 CD 8/6
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
ALBAN BERG
Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11; Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19; Fünf Klavierstücke Op. 23; Suite Für Klavier Op. 25; Klavierstücke Op. 33 a/b; Two Fragments (1931)
Piano Sonata Op. 1; Sonata Fragment (Wozzeck Fragment)
Roland Pöntinen (piano)

BIS 1417 CD 9/9
ALBAN BERG
Lulu Anat Efraty (soprano); Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano); Adalbert Waller (baritone); Jürgen Linn (baritone); Ian Storey (tenor); Roderick Kennedy (bass); Theo Adam (bass); Bodo Schwanbeck (bass)
Orchestra del Teatro Massimo
Stefan Anton Reck
Arte Nova Classics 03480 CD 9/5
ANTON WEBERN
ALBAN BERG
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Passacaglia
Three Pieces from Lyric Suite; Three Pieces for Orchestra
Variations for Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan
Deutsche Grammophon 457 760-2 CD 10/8
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
ANTON WEBERN
ALBAN BERG
Piano Concerto Op. 42; Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11; Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19
Variations (for piano solo) Op. 27
Piano Sonata Op. 1
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez
Philips 468 033-2 CD 9/9
ALBAN BERG
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
FRANZ LISZT
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
GYöRGY LIGETI
OLIVIER MESSIEAN
PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD AT CARNEGIE HALL
Piano Sonata
Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Légendes, No. 2: St. Francis de Paule marchant sur les flots
Reflets dans l'eau; Poissons d'or; Pour les huit doights
Cordes à vide; Automne à Varsovie; Der Zauberlehrling
Première communion de la Vierge
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Teldec 0917430882 CD 10/10
ALBAN BERG
PAUL HINDEMITH
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN
20th CENTURY PIANO SONATAS
Piano Sonata Op. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1936)
Three Piano Pieces (1894)
Piano Sonata “27 April 1945” (includes two versions of the finale)
Allison Brewster Franzetti (piano)

Naxos 8.570401 CD 9/9
FRANZ SCHUBERT
ANTON WEBERN
ALBAN BERG
Sonata for Arpeggione (cello) & piano in A minor D. 821; Das Wandern; Ungeduld; Die Vögel; Sonatine for violin & piano D. 384; Wiegenlied; Nacht und Träume
Three Pieces Op. 11
Four Pieces Op. 5
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello); Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

Harmonia Mundi 901930 CD 8/9
MAURICE RAVEL
DARIUS MILHAUD
ALBAN BERG
String Quartet in F Major
String Quartet No. 7
Lyric Suite for String Quartet
Galimir Quartet

Rockport Records 5007 CD 9/3
ALBAN BERG
HUGO WOLF
String Quartet Op. 3; Lyric Suite
Italian Serenade
New Zealand String Quartet

Naxos 8.557374 CD 10/10
ALBAN BERG
ANTON WEBERN
String Quartet Op. 3; Lyric Suite
Three Pieces for String Quartet
Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Leipzig String Quartet

MDG 307 0996-2 CD 10/10
ALBAN BERG
ANTON WEBERN
String Quartet Op. 3; Lyric Suite; Lyric Suite: Largo Desolato
String Quartet Op. 28
Vanda Tabery (soprano)
Pražák Quartet

Praga 250 161 CD 10/10
GUSTAV MAHLER
ALBAN BERG
Symphony No. 4
Seven Early Songs
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Decca 466 720-2 CD 8/10
GUSTAV MAHLER
ALBAN BERG
Symphony No. 4
Seven Early Songs
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado
Deutsche Grammophon B0005759-02 CD 6/7
GUSTAV MAHLER
ALBAN BERG
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 6
Three Pieces for Orchestra
Andante in B minor
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Michael Gielen
Hänssler Classic 93029 CD 9/9
ALBAN BERG
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
ANTON WEBERN
Three Pieces for Orchestra Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite
Variations for Orchestra
Passacaglia for Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan
Deutsche Grammophon 457 760-2 CD 10/8
ALBAN BERG
Three Pieces for Orchestra; Altenberg Lieder; Seven Early Songs; Wine, Women, and Song (Strauss Jr, arr. Berg) Christiane Iven (soprano)
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Albrecht
PentaTone 5186363 SACD 7/8
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
ANTON WEBERN
ALBAN BERG
Verklärte Nacht
Five Movements for Strings
Three Pieces from the "Lyric Suite"
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Edmond de Stoutz
Omega 1032 CD 7/6
ALBAN BERG
CLAUS OGERMANN
GUSTAV MAHLER
Vier Lieder Op.2
Tagore-Lieder
Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano); John Wustmann (piano)

Arts Music 43028-2 CD 9/6
ALBAN BERG
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto in D
Mark Kaplan (violin)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Lawrence Foster
Koch International Classics 3-7530-2 CD 8/6
ALBAN BERG
PAUL HINDEMITH
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto in D major
Violin Concerto in D major
Ivry Gitlis (violin)
Pro Musica Symphony, Vienna
Westphalia Symphony Orchestra
Concerts Colonne Orchestra
William Strickland
Hubert Reichert
Harold Byrns
Vox 7818 CD 9/7
ALBAN BERG
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Violin Concerto (1935) Piano Concerto Op. 42 (1942)
Violin Concerto Op. 36
Henryk Szeryng (violin); Alfred Brendel (piano); Zvi Zeitlin (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik
Eloquence 469 606-2 CD 9/7
ALBAN BERG
Violin Concerto; Chamber Concerto Reiko Watanabe (violin); Andrea Lucchesini (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Teldec 18155-2 CD 8/9
ALBAN BERG
Violin Concerto; Lyric Suite; Three Pieces for Orchestra Rebecca Hirsch (violin)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Eri Klas
Naxos 8.554755 CD 6/8
ALBAN BERG
THE ESSENTIAL ALBAN BERG
Violin Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces Op. 6; Piano Sonata Op. 1; Three Pieces from Lyric Suite for String Orchestra; Lulu Suite; Three Excerpts from Wozzeck; Five Altenberg Songs Op. 4
Gidon Kremer (violin); Alfred Brendel (piano); Helga Pilarczyk (soprano); Brigitte Balleys (mezzo-soprano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Deutshces Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Antal Dorati
Philips 470 531-2 CD 7/7
RICHARD WAGNER
ALBAN BERG
RICHARD STRAUSS
Wesendonck Lieder
Seven Early Songs
Four Last Songs
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles
Sony Classical 61720 CD 8/10
ALBAN BERG
Wozzeck Carl Johan Falkman (Wozzeck); Sten Wahlund (Doctor); Katarina Dalayman (Marie); Ulrik Qvale (Captain); Lennart Stregard (Drum Major); Klas Hedlund (Andres); others
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera, Stockholm
Leif Segerstam
Naxos 8.660076-77 CD 7/5

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