The Alban Berg Collection (8 CDs)

Alban BERG (1885-1935)

The Alban Berg Collection

Artists

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Aribert Reimann (piano)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, LaSalle Quartet, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez

8 CDs

Works:

CD 1

Drei Orchesterstücke, Op. 6

Wiener Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado

Lyric Suite - three movements for string orchestra (1928)

Wiener Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado

Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

James Levine

CD2

Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments

Daniel Barenboim (piano), Pinchas Zukerman (violin)

Ensemble Intercontemporain

Pierre Boulez

Piano Sonata, Op. 1

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5

Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano)

Adagio from Chamber Concerto 

Gidon Kremer (violin), Oleg Maisenberg (piano), Sabine Meyer (clarinet)

Strauss, J, II: Wein, Weib und Gesang, Op. 333 (Arr. Alban Berg)

Boston Symphony Chamber Players

CD 3

Lyric Suite - for string quartet (1926)

LaSalle Quartet (string quartet)

String Quartet, Op. 3

LaSalle Quartet (string quartet)

Sieben frühe Lieder

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Schliesse mir die Augen beide

Margaret Marshall (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

An Leukon

Margaret Marshall (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1925 version)

Margaret Marshall (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Vier Lieder, Op. 2

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Aribert Reimann (piano)

CD 4

Sieben frühe Lieder

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)

Wiener Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado

5 Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4

Juliane Banse (soprano)

Wiener Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado

Der Wein

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)

Wiener Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado

Lulu-Suite (Five Symphonic Pieces) for soprano and orchesta

Juliane Banse (soprano)

Wiener Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado

CDs 5, 6 and 7

Lulu 

Jules Bastin (bass), Gerd Nienstedt (bass), Pierre-Yves Le Maigat (baritone), Teresa Stratas (singer), Teresa Stratas (soprano), Franz Mazura (baritone), Toni Blankenheim (baritone), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Helmut Pampuch (tenor), Hanna Schwarz (mezzo-soprano), Jane Manning (soprano), Claude Meloni (tenor), Anna Ringart (mezzo-soprano), Ursula Boese (mezzo-soprano)

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris

Pierre Boulez

CDs 7 and 8

Wozzeck 

Aage Haugland (bass), Franz Grundheber (baritone), Viktoria Lehner (soprano), Hildegard Behrens (soprano), Walter Raffeiner (tenor), Heinz Zednik (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Anna Gonda (alto), Alfred Sramek (bass), Alexander Maly (baritone), Werner Kamenik (tenor), Peter Jelosits (tenor), Helmut Froschauer (chorus master)

Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben

Claudio Abbado

Along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, Austrian composer Alban Berg was a principal member of the so-called Second Viennese School, combining Mahlerian late-Romanticism with the system of twelve-tone composition developed by Schoenberg. He is perhaps best-known for his two operas, Lulu and Wozzeck, and his Violin Concerto, which he wrote in memory of Alma Mahler's daughter.