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Alban Berg Quartett: 20th Century Tribute | EMI 5139742

Alban Berg Quartett: 20th Century Tribute

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 5139742

Barcode: 5099951397425

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 14th January 2008

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About

The Alban Berg Quartett retire in 2008 aftBolder more than 35 years of recording and performing throughout the world.

EMI Classics have already issued a 5CD set entitled Hommage which showcases their enormous catalogue of works from Haydn and Mozart, through Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms to the 20th century of Bartók, Janáček and Stravinsky.

It is their dedication to the performance of new music that this 3CD 20th century collection celebrates and it includes the quartet written for them by Wolfgang Rihm, born in 1952, the last quartet of Bartók and the remaining 20th century works which were not included in Hommage.

Contents:
J Strauss II: Kaiser-Walzer/“Emperor” waltz, Op. 437 (arr. Schönberg)
Alban Berg Quartett with Heinz Medjimoreč (piano), Wolfgang Schulz (flute) and Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet)
Recorded: 11-20.VI.1992; Mozartsaal, Konzerthaus, Wien

Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910)
Recorded: XII.1991; Evangeslische Kirche, Seon, Switzerland

Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 ‘after Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata’
Recorded: “live”, 31.X&1.XI.1993; Mozartsaal, Konzerthaus, Wien

Bartók: String Quartet No. 6 in D
Recorded: 17-21.XII.1985; Evangeslische Kirche, Seon, Switzerland

Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
Stravinsky: Concertino (1920)
Recorded: 21&22.VI.1983; Evangeslische Kirche, Seon, Switzerland

Piazzolla: Tango Sensations for string quartet and bandoneon
Alban Berg Quartett with Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon
Recorded: “live”,V.2003; Mozartsaal, Konzerthaus, Wien

Lutosławski: String Quartet (1964)
Recorded: 21-23.VI.1995; Evangelische Kirche, Honrath

Haubenstock-Ramati: Second String Quartet (1977)
Recorded: “live”, 30.I.1990; Konzerthaus, Wien

von Einem: First String Quartet, Op. 45
Recorded: 21&22.VI.1983; Evangeslische Kirche, Seon, Switzerland

Schnittke: String Quartet No. 4 (1989)
Recorded: “live”, 11.XII.1990; Mozartsaal, Konzerthaus, Wien

Berio: Notturno (Quartetto III) (1986/93)
Recorded: “live”, 12.V.1994; Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London

Bonus:
OpenDisc Bonus Content
Urbanner: String Quartet No. 4 (1991-92)
Recorded: “live”, 17&19.V.1993; Mozartsaal, Konzerthaus, Wien

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