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Berg: Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs & Three Pieces for Orchestra

2/26/2021, 12 Tracks, 1:07:08

Featuring

  • Gil Shaham
  • Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Susanna Phillips
  • San Francisco Symphony
  • Alban Berg

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Compositional Technique

Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 6, takes Mahlerian transformation and exaggeration to an extreme, built upon traditional dance-types like ländler, waltz, and march.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The Violin Concerto incorporates the Lutheran chorale 'Es ist genug!' (It is enough!), whose opening notes serendipitously matched the final four notes of Berg's twelve-tone row.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Berg's Violin Concerto was composed as a musical memorial to Manon Gropius, the 18-year-old daughter of Alma Mahler Werfel (Gustav Mahler's widow) and Walter Gropius, who died of polio.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Gil Shaham, the violinist on this recording, plays the 1699 'Countess Polignac' Stradivarius violin.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded live in PCM 192 kHz/24-bit audio at Davies Symphony Hall, a venue of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Alban Berg, the composer, had a difficult start in life, repeating two years of high school and becoming a father at 17.

Source: Booklet

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