Alban Berg - Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite] [With score]

Composer: Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 -- 24 December 1935) Performers: Juilliard String Quartet - Robert Mann (violin), Earl Carlyss (violin), Samuel Rhodes (viola), Claus Adam (cello) Year of recording: 1970 (live) Lyrische Suite [Lyric suite], written between 1925-1926 00:00 - I. Allegretto gioviale 03:09 - II. Andante amoroso 09:26 - III. Allegro misterioso – Trio estatico 12:43 - IV. Adagio appassionato 19:05 - V. Presto delirando – Tenebroso 24:00 - VI. Largo desolato Berg’s Lyric Suite abounds in secret messages. In purely musical terms, Berg here for the first time employs Schoenberg’s 12-tone system, basing some of the third and fifth movements on rows using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale. (And in one row, Berg proudly told Schoenberg, he used not only all available notes, but all available intervals.) Also, the fourth movement carries a quotation from the Lyric Symphony of Zemlinsky, to whom the suite is dedicated. In more personal