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| 1. |  | Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets / Alban Berg Quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven Price: $32.19 Customer Review:  I readily admit to not being a scholar of Beethoven's quartets, just an enthusiastic admirer. This collection is well played with the very minor exception of the first 'Rasumovsky' which just lacked the energy. I would have preferred the CD's to have the quartets arranged by order of composition.... |
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| 2. |  | Alban Berg Collection / Various (Coll) from Deutsche Grammophon Price: $34.09 Customer Review:  Overall what you get here is great music in very fine performances, but as others have noted, there are no texts. This is a HUGE flaw when nearly three-quarters of the music is vocal, even if your German is excellent. I can only recommend this to Berg fans who already have other recordings with the... |
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| 3. |  | Accentus: Transcriptions by Catherine Ravenne Price: $8.34 Customer Review: I first heard a selection (Mahler's Adagietto) from this CD on the radio, and I had to buy it. This music is some of the most beautiful I have ever heard (and I have many years' experience as a pianist, organist, and opera and choral singer). I first loved the aforementioned Adagietto, but have... |
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| 4. |  | Berg: Violin Concerto; Schoenberg: Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto from Umvd Labels Price: $3.50 Customer Review: This is a budget re-release on the Universal Classics label of this album from Deutsche Grammphon in the 1970s. The original DG includes a booklet with liner notes, this release does not. Either way, you get a great three-concerto disc featuring Rafeal Kubelik conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony... |
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| 5. |  | Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata from Harmonia Mundi Fr. Price: $18.16 Customer Review: This performance by young cellist Queyras and pianist Tharaud is out of this world. Just listen to the polished and multicromatic playing by Queyras, his cello sound is powerfull, brilliant but also mild and sweet. Tharaud understands perfectly the sometimes concertante role of the piano in this... |
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| 6. |  | Berg: Chamber Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6; Violin Concerto from Sony Price: $6.07 Customer Review: The three composers of the Second Viennese School each turned atonal writing to different ends. Schoenberg explored turbulent expressionism, and Anton Webern wrote remarkable crystalline miniatures, but when Alban Berg adopted new modernist methods he never entirely left Romanticism behind. This... |
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| 7. |  | Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado by Hildegard Behrens Price: $27.11 Customer Review: Why was the Böhm recording pulled for a while from the catalogue when this Abbado document was released? Often such things are done by recording companies to help boost new recordings done by different artists working for the same firms. While yours truly finds that practise hideous, the best... |
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| 8. |  | Alban Berg Quartet Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 14 - 23 by Alban Berg Quartet Price: $38.48 Customer Review: How, or more importantly, WHY are these out-of-print? Of the many performances of Mozart's late quartets I have heard (including Amadeus quartet, Talich quartet, Alban Berg's later set on EMI, Hagen quartet, Quartetto Italiano, Ysaye Quartet, Quatuor Mosaique), these are at the top of the pile. The... |
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| 9. |  | Schoenberg: Piano Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg Price: $9.48 Customer Review: On this Phillips disc from 2001, pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs several works by the Second Viennese School that she wishes to bring to greater prominence. As she explains in her liner notes, the basis of these works is far from the eggheaded mathematics, and she finds the music elegant and... |
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| 10. |  | Kronos Quartet: At The Grave of Richard Wagner by Kronos Quartet Price: $19.31 Customer Review: This is a truly fascinating CD. Perhaps it doesn't have the greatest balance in terms of pieces, but that certainly shouldn't put you off at all. The opening piece (the title track if you want to be "pop") is a truly sublime Lisztian work - you'll find none of the fire and virtuosity that you may... |
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| 11. |  | Discover Music of the 20th Century from Naxos Price: $6.38 Customer Review: For me, DISCOVER MUSIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY is an interesting collection, with several pieces and composers I had not heard before, even though I have several hundred CDs of "classical" music. Also, the included booklet is a terrific description running over 150 pages both of composers included in... |
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| 12. |  | Alban Berg: Lulu Suite/The Wine/Lyric Suite from Sony Price: $5.22 Customer Review: This is yet another recording that I am finally getting around to hearing on the occasion of Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday year, a superb entry in Sony's PIERRE BOULEZ series, with Boulez leading the New York Philharmonic. The most surprising aspect to me is finding that the "Lulu Suite" is mainly... |
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| 13. |  | Jessye Norman Sings Alban Berg from Sony Price: $5.91 Customer Review: I wouldn't worry too much about the disc length, or the fact that other filler wasn't 'thrown in'. This performance is truly an appreciation of Berg, and so strikingly beautiful that I would recommend it as an excellent way to warm up to the Second Viennese School if you are not already an admirer... |
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| 14. |  | Samuel Barber / Thomas Schippers from Sony Price: $2.34 Customer Review: this is an absolutely phenomenal collection of compositions recorded by thomas schippers during his regrettably short career. there is not a false note among the offerings. for me, "medea's meditation and dance of vengeance" is the highlight of the disc. however, all of the other pieces are at a... |
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| 15. |  | Anne Sofie von Otter - Love's Twilight (Late Romantic Songs by Berg, Korngold, Strauss) by Alban Berg Price: $13.74 Customer Review: I am of a mixed mind about von Otter, who tends to push every composer through the same style--very earnest, intense, with a push to every note, and sometimes too much of a slide into phrases. Here she hits the mark perfectly. She sounds as if immersed in Strauss's lavish, plush, self-inudlgent... |
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| 16. | ![Mozart: Chamber Music [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417BB0TZ5QL._SL160_.jpg) | Mozart: Chamber Music [Box Set] by Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Price: $30.92 | |
| 17. |  | Susan Graham at Carnegie Hall from Warner Classics Price: $11.60 Customer Review: I was in the audience at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Graham came out and... wham!... she ripped right into the Brahms. Such vigor! I hadn't thought of Ms Graham as having such muscular intensity. I was familiar with her sensitive elegance and lyricism -- which she, later in the... |
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| 18. |  | Brahms: The String Quartets; Dvorák: String Quartet Op. 106 from Teldec Price: $11.38 Customer Review: Over the years, I have collected over 200 recordings of string quartets beginning with LP's, cassettes and finally CD's. These are some of my favorites. A little intro is required. While going through a "junk" music bin in a pawn shop in the early 80's, I found a cassette of these recordings... |
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| 19. |  | Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Carnegie Hall from Teldec Price: $5.99 Customer Review: The pendulum has swung far away from personality pianists like Horowitz and Rubenstein who were bigger than the music they played, at least so far as audience appeal went. Aimard is definitely of another breed, the superb technicians and sensitive musicians who almost erase their persoanlities.... |
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| 20. |  | The Great War: Classical And Popular Selections From The Time Of World War I (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium) from Sony Price: $5.04 Customer Review: A very enjoyable CD of the disastrous close of an era. The accompanying literature in as enjoyable to read as the CD is to listen to. |
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| 21. |  | Berg: String Quartet; Lyric Suite; Wolf: Italian Serenade from Naxos Price: $5.85 Customer Review: I haven't enjoyed a performance of Berg's Lyric Suite as much as this one since I wore out my old LP recording with the Juilliard Quartet. The Berg quartet is also well played, but the Wolf serenade is a poor choice as a filler. I would have preferred some of Berg's vocal music, e.g. his 7 early... |
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| 22. |  | Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: Orchestral Works by Berg Price: $3.76 Customer Review: This collection of orchestral and opera pieces from Second Viennese School masters Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg amply demonstrates why Sir Simon Rattle was offered the conducting position at one of Europe's most esteemed ensembles, the Berlin Philharmonic, after Claudio Abbado... |
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| 23. |  | Berg - Lulu / Stratas · Minton · Schwarz · Mazura · Riegel · Blankenheim · Tear · Pampuch · Boulez from Dg Imports Price: $33.20 Customer Review:  Teresa Stratas is perfect, Boulez makes his own interpretation. Is not the best. The three acts (completed by another guy) is less effective and less real. I wont recommend this version at all. Christine's remain the very best. Martin |
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| 24. |  | The Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney by Barbara Bonney Price: $9.37 Customer Review: Discovered Ms. Bonney by accident. Her voice is amazing, sends chills it is so pure. I will definitely be getting more as gifts, so I can share this wonderful experience. |
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| 25. |  | Glenn Gould Edition: Berg, Krenek, Webern, Debussy & Ravel from Sony Price: $7.22 Customer Review: This is certainly one of the best recordings from GG Edition. Gould is completely at home in this sort of music, and listener can sense the immediacy of his playing, there is no barrier between the music in his mind and the sound coming out of the piano. The brilliant performance of Ravel's La... |
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| 26. |  | Berg, Britten: Violin Concertos from Warner Classics Price: $6.65 Customer Review: I don't think this 2003 recording from Daniel Hope was much noticed on our side of the Atlantic. The catalog is full of notable versions of the Berg Violin Concerto, and the Britten is almost never played here. But in all respects this is an ear-opening experience. Hope and the... |
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| 27. |  | Berg: Lulu; Wozzeck by Karl Christian Kohn Price: $31.35 Customer Review: This cd set was in fine condition when it arrived. It exceeded my expectation. While Alban Berg is not for everyone, he is one of my favorite composers, and probably my favorite 20th century composer. To boot, Fischer-Diskau and Wunderlich are two of the finest singers of mid 20th century. This... |
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| 28. |  | Vienna: Music by Schoenberg, Webern and Berg from Philips Price: $6.66 Customer Review: If the yr was 1961 up to the time of Boulez's recordings, i'd give Dorati and The London 5 Stars. But in 2008 I only can allow 3 stars. The music gets a stunning 5 Stars. In its day this was a fine first recording. Think about 1961, most people were hardly aware of the second viennese greats.... |
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| 29. |  | Berg: Kammerkonzert; Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks / Boulez, Barenboim from Deutsche Grammophon Price: $6.42 Customer Review: This Deutsche Grammophon CD collects some of the first recordings that the Ensemble Intercontemporain put down after its founding in the mid-1970s, linked to the IRCAM music and acoustics research laboratory. Their first director, Pierre Boulez, leads them in pieces by two very different modernists,... |
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| 30. |  | Portrait of Susan Graham from Warner Classics Price: $3.18 Customer Review: Susan Graham is yet another in a cohort of strong mezzo sopranos at this point in time. Her CD, "Portrait," demonstrates that she deserves to be considered with other excellent mezzos. She is backed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Harry Bicket. The range of works on... |
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