There's always been an aura of mystery to Alban Berg's Lyric Suite. We didn't learn the strange details of its story until long after Berg died, but in fact they were right there all along, written ...

Alban Berg set the precedent for arranging his own music when he published a version for full strings of three movements of the Lyric Suite, originally composed for string quartet. Other composers ...

One of Klimt’s golden, erotic-symbolist paintings makes an apt cover for this disc of music from early 20th-century Vienna. Berg poured all the ecstasy of a love affair into his intensely concentrated ...

Alban Berg’s “Lyric Suite” was known as a piece for string quartet until 1977, when a musicologist discovered a copy of the score annotated by Berg himself. That find revealed the emotional provenance ...

String Quartet No. 14, 'Death and the Maiden' Franz Schubert, Composer Novus Quartet It’s a convincing and imposing vision of the quartet on its own terms, albeit compromised a little by the leader’s ...

It was to be their little secret, one they took to their graves — he in 1935 and she in 1964. But the discovery in 1977 of an annotated miniature score of Alban Berg’s “Lyric Suite” changed all that.

Lyric Suite Alban Berg, Composer Resonanz Ensemble Jean-Guihen Queyras, Director, Cello Verklärte Nacht Jean-Guihen Queyras, Director, Cello Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Resonanz Ensemble That hasn’t ...

The violinist Christian Tetzlaff has for some time been among the world’s outstanding soloists, a musician for whom intelligence and integrity stand on at least as high a footing as passion and tonal ...

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