One of the most beautiful Violin Concerti ever written. If only those obsessed with serialism would pay attention to Berg's capacity for lyricism and not monopolize their time with writing note rows and pay attention to mere technique.

@charlesrae3793

4 жыл бұрын

I think it moves because it is written from the heart. Yes, he uses twelve-tone technique but it stradddles tonality and atonality, and technique is driven not by intellectual but by emotional considerations. Listening to this you get some sense of how beautiful a person Manon was, and how devastating her death was.And for me , at the moment, mourning my lovely mother, it has an extra resonance that owes nothing to theory and everything to emotion. The passage through grief it portrays is tangible; we think of the person, have fond memories then we are forced to confront the reality of death. We struggle against it but, at the end, we are back with Bach's chorale: Es ist genug. What an amazing piece of music!

@guillermogonzalez6346

2 жыл бұрын

Berg retornó al expresionismo del cual había partido. Recordemos su Sonata para piano de un solo movimiento.

@arielorthmann4061

Жыл бұрын

There's no music as expressive as Webern's music imo

Berg used dodecaphony in this concerto but he made it in a personal and beautiful way. This is my favorite classical masterpiece.

My dad used to say that Berg's music is like Schoenberg's but beautiful. That's ironic when you translate their names into English....

@GenericGoogleAccount

9 жыл бұрын

Alban Mountain and Arnold BeautifulMountain !

@ClementMartin42

8 жыл бұрын

And they might be two real sommits of their kind.

@ericnk58

6 жыл бұрын

As his full name was Alban Maria Johannes Berg the literal translation of his name was White Exalted God's grace Mountain. Pretty nice name! Berg was the "slowpoke" of the Second Viennese School, Schoenberg and Webern abandoning tonality in 1908 (Schoenberg with his String Quartet #2 Op. 10, Webern with his 5 Songs Op. 3) and Berg in 1910 with the last of his 4 Songs Op. 2; Schoenberg and Webern advancing to 12-note technique in 1923 (Schoenberg with his 5 Piano Pieces Op. 23, Webern with his 5 Canons Op. 16) and Berg in 1925 with the second setting of his song Schliesse mir die Augen beide. He wasn't as prolific as Schoenberg or Webern but the comparative handful of works he left behind are masterful.

@garthly

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Pinsker when I was at school, there was a boy called Lee in form 5b and a boy called Cleverly in 5a.

@mizofan

6 жыл бұрын

I knew a woman called Eileen Dover

I love Alban Berg. He gives atonal music warm and depth. His Lyric Suite is just wonderful

Every phrase and even every note tells a very huge story...very descriptive...very deep "painting" with any kind of emotion....I'm starting to be keen to this type of composers

Wonderful piece: so lyrical. Many different styles (classical, romantic) all woven together into a compelling narrative. A shame he died so young.

@bobsmith8942

7 жыл бұрын

And from nothing more than a bug bite.

Cathartic. When Bach's "Es ist Genug" emerges, I cannot hold back the tears.

@driz77

Жыл бұрын

At what timing?

@willrobinson1229

Жыл бұрын

The end of an era, heartbreaking

Gorgeous and moving performance. In my opinion this work explores some of the greatest expressive possibilities of atonality.

As a beginner regarding listening to classical music, I assumed I wouldn't enjoy atonal music regardless of whether I found it interesting or not. But this is probably one of the most unique, interesting, emotional, expressive and communicative pieces of music I've ever heard. Looking forward to discovering more.

@mybuttlookslikeurfac

8 жыл бұрын

+sweety1009 I am going through a very similar experience.

@brkahn

6 жыл бұрын

Try Zimmermann's oboe concerto.

@eatablelove

5 жыл бұрын

@@brkahn danke für den Tipp!

Bravo Alban Berg and Bravo Perlman, Ozawa and the Boston SO. A truly magnificent composition, perhaps one of the greatest works of the 20th Century and a performance/recording of the highest degree in every regard. I so enjoyed listening to this work again and this very recording, one which I did own but have since lost... it doesn't get much better than this.

Great performance of a deeply emotional masterpiece

After a lot of classicism, it's good to listen to this - just like after a lot of this, it's pleasant to go back to classicism. I don't think one should stick to the same music all their life, renewal is constant and unavoidable. Berg's music certainly has an unusual charm which can make it obnoxious to some, but it appeals to the mind and to the heart and it describes an era: the instability of the early XX century, the rejection of conventional Western culture, the need to leave harmony and beauty behind, in search of a sincere and straightforward dissonance. In this sense, Berg's music isn't and doesn't have to be beautiful: it's not something you listen to when you are tidying up and want to dance or sing, it's rather something that unveils the dissonance of life, in its tragic happiness and its merry dreariness. You either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, depends on your mood and on your temper, and it totally does not deserve all the superficial insults of those who feel so safe with their habits that they can't conceive anything that isn't what they've been listening to for decades.

@alexreik424

7 жыл бұрын

utter claptrap, go home to hip hop, philosophical and musical ignoramus

@elena-xt7cs

7 жыл бұрын

I take your opinion into account, even though your manners are incredibly rude, because I know well I am not a music or philosophy expert, I'm just an enthusiast. I'd like to know why you think my comment is wrong, and I'd be delighted to learn more about this music from someone who clearly knows more than I do. Don't take this as a sarcastic comment, I really do want to know why you think I am an ignoramus... I want to improve. I do not like hip hop music, sorry.

@diogenesagogo

7 жыл бұрын

What a rude man! I'd just like to say that I don't absolutely love or hate atonal music, but I find it extremely hit or miss. Some passages can be sublime, in a mystical, unfathomable way. I have this pet theory that music reflects the wave nature of thought processes propagated through the brain, thus the octave nature of 'normal' music; the serialists were trying to impose a mathematically rigorous but unnatural system onto the brain. Thus I believe that music is like machine code, in the sense that it operates at a more fundamental level than speech, which needs translating. In music the sound of the words transcends meaning - most operagoers haven't a clue about the foreign language they're listening to! Music (octave style) both reflects thought patterns & leads them into unknown territory (if worthwhile); 12 tone, serial, atonal music & the like tend to just confuse the brain most of the time - but not always (evanescent modes?). This does rather beg the question about oriental music. Is our western music just a cultural conceit then? However, it does seem to have taken all cultures by storm, so perhaps there is a fundamental truth there. Or perhaps not. I'm sure Mr. Reik will find this all utter claptrap, but, frankly, I don't give a shit. More power to you Mr. Sélavy! PS I can't stand hip hop either.

@elena-xt7cs

7 жыл бұрын

+diogenesagogo I'm very glad my comment didn't sound pretentious to your ears - I have this feeling some people choose to be superficial on purpose, I guess it's surely much more comfortable and easier than trying to get deep into things. I did not mean to give a lesson on Berg, I was just writing down the first impressions I got from the piece: music can indeed name the unnameable, and any attempt to solve its mysteries may be interesting but never fully satisfying. I hoped my comment could appeal to someone, and I'm really happy it did appeal to you. As to your theory, I'm unluckily not an expert of brain processes because I haven't really dedicated that much time to scientific studies. I do get your point, though. I reckon 12 tone, atonal music may sound imposed upon our ears and our brain, but I wonder whether it's an actual biological limit we have, or just the result of centuries of octave style music. It's ultimately the good old "nature VS nurture" thing, and I wonder if we'll ever get to a conclusion. Thanks for your kindness!

@alexreik424

7 жыл бұрын

so you say....let the baby jesus open your mind and shut your mouth

It is a fascinating statement; one of the rare atonal compositions that I have listened to with rapt attention!

Sublime! Il n'y a pas de mot pour décrire la beauté de cette musique. Grand merci pour ce post!

It Is an intense of youthful !Thoughts! memories of Innocence! Yet, with Something of Struggle! and Sadness! Sounds like a Silent Movie! a Big Screen Movie! Perlman as Usual always strikes me in the Heart! a true performance of wonderful! Work! and Magic! Bravo!

Magnificent!!!

Itzhak plays this so beautifully.

Quelle merveille, ce concerto ! Cette interprétation est de loin ma préférée de celles que j'ai pu entendre.

@pierrebrignone4682

Жыл бұрын

Absolument

One of the greatest pieces of music of all time.

@yossipeles7864

6 жыл бұрын

Roger Algase Personally, I dislike the very idea of "greatness". Of course, I love this concerto very much (and I'm an admirer of Berg in general) but I'm against any idolization of art and artists, as it distorts the correct judgement of all those works of art that unfortunately and unjustifiably haven't won the access to that fake "greatness".

@55archduke

3 жыл бұрын

@@yossipeles7864 To call a piece great means that it is at the summit of musical interest and compositional achievement. To deny that some are "greater" than others in these regards seems silly.

@yossipeles7864

3 жыл бұрын

Do you call me "silly"? I could as well have used the same word for all those SILLY worshippers of so-called "greatness" in art and life. I love this concerto, but it isn't the "summit" of its genre or style and an attentive listener can easily detect some serious drawbacks in its "compositinal achievement".

@55archduke

3 жыл бұрын

@@yossipeles7864 If you are unable to perceive that some works of art are "better made" than others, you have limited "vision." If you deny that trained observers can make these distinctions, that IS silly.

После прослушивания в голове не остаётся ничего от этой музыки, только то, что она наделала. Это удивительно. Музыка оставляет тебя наедине с самим собой. Не на что опереться, некому рассказать, только бытие вокруг.

It occurred to me as I listened that a lot of the incidental music used in films in the 40s and 50s was written in a similar style, sometimes by very well known composers, and thus a lot of people who might never have sought out anything avant garde were nevertheless exposed to this type of sound.

@SoaringTrumpet

8 жыл бұрын

+zolluuu We've lost our way since then, sadly anything going back that's not at least late Romantic is not used in popular culture. There are exceptions, but not mainstream composers like John Williams.

@ericnk58

6 жыл бұрын

He wrote a remarkable (palindromic) piece of film music in Act II of Lulu, right after Lulu is arrested for murdering Dr. Schön and continuing until she makes her escape from jail. The instructions for the film music are extremely detailed. It forms part of the Lulu Suite (No. 2 -- Ostinato).

@lucasfmhomem

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoaringTrumpet that's not completely true. There are a lot of "weirder" modernist composers that left a mark in film scores, like Penderecki and Ligeti.

@driz77

Жыл бұрын

@@SoaringTrumpet Williams quotes Berg in his Star Wars evil nemesis chord. At timing 10:50. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oaWHtaqwdqjUj5s.html

excellent version. thank you very much

Very nice Performance! Thank you, jormaple!

So beautiful! Thanks for your sharing!

First time I've listened to this. How amazing it is! It has sent me off to find out more about the man and his music. Really superb performance and recording too. Thanks so much for uploading.

Truly beautiful.

Le plaisir infini de l'existence, c'est aussi de tomber sur ce genre de choses sonores, au détour d'un chemin caillouteux de traverse :-)

Il est très difficile d'écrire un concerto pour violon après un tel chef d'oeuvre !!!

@jean-francoisranck6629

2 ай бұрын

What do you think of Shostakowich's prokofief's and Dutilleux's concertos for the violin for example ?

Yes, wonderful ! Thanks a lot

Extremely beautiful!

A genius of composition ! Thanks a lot

0:00 is a good place to start. ^

MAGNIFIQUE !! Thanks a lot , I Perlman is awsome ! and Ozawa ...!

I appreciated your detailed and informative response to my inquiry. Thank you for both!! Indeed, you have credentials!! :)

First time hearing this. It's incredible!

Diese Musik gehört zum Schönsten, was es in der Musikgeschichte gibt. >Immer wieder höre ich mir diese >Klänge an.

Wonderful.

As others have stated so well already - a magnificent composition. A wondrous journey of massive sonic scenery, hugely emotional and satisfying. Alban certainly did great things with the developments of the Romantic composers combined with the developments of his teacher. Superb. Thank you for posting such a stunning recording.

Merci

Bravo!

Damn, that's a beautiful ending.

@studamanduncan9728

5 жыл бұрын

You buy that ending?

@solstice871

5 жыл бұрын

Stuart Duncan what do you mean "buy" the ending, it's a beautiful ending

@jvegaalbela

4 жыл бұрын

@@studamanduncan9728 a wonderful proof that the idea of tonality and atonality as mutually exclusive concepts in music is incredibly misguided

@jvegaalbela

4 жыл бұрын

@@studamanduncan9728 after all it's said that Schoenberg himself told his students simply to learn his method, and then write music

@studamanduncan9728

4 жыл бұрын

@@solstice871 Only just been notified of this comment.Seems KZread doesn't always notify.However I am more than happy to elucidate. Without playing it again,I simply felt that the composer either ran out of ideas,interest or time.

Took me about 2mins to get into it. Different, interesting and emotional.

Manon Gropius, the "angel", was the daughter of Mahler's widow by her second husband, Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus architect.

I've been a performing musician (pianist) for over 50 years who has accompanied the Berg and has heard and absorbed close to three dozen recordings of the work with score in hand. Here are some first rate performances: Krasner/Webern; Zehetmaier/Holliger (he's the only one to play the rising passage at the opening of part two correctly); Suk/Ancerl (I may be wrong about the conductor) Although I think Yo Yo Ma overindulges in outward displays and histrionics, he is a sensitive and great artist.

I agree that dissonance can have a unique beauty that appeals to our auditory neurons in a different way than "normal music" - if we have the patience to give it "a fair hearing" (pun intended, if that's a pun). But I can only take a few minutes of it at a time. After that, my brain longs to hear something beautiful in the traditional mode to rinse away the debris of harsh dissonance. Everyone's tastes vary, and if you love listening to a lot of dissonant stuff, that's fine with me!

@vaspers

8 жыл бұрын

+Mark Brendan Hussey You are trapped in the Western music theory prison, unable to crack through the concrete of sediment piled on by traditional aesthetics that have no basis in reality. You judge this music through a distorted prism of "what music should be" and "what music should do." I hope one day you break free.

@MarkBrendanHussey

8 жыл бұрын

+Steven Streight ok Steven, thank you so much for rooting for me to break free of my sonic prison, and to join you and the other enlightened ones in the kingdom of dissonant ecstasy! I have truly been "scared Streight". :-) emoticon of utter joy!! Actually.....I never said I didn't like this music! ALL I SAID was....it sounded angsty during the first two minutes. Then I said I would listen to it again. (This was more than a year ago). And when I did listen again, I did not really find it to my liking. I do like some stuff that includes elements of dissonance, but not stuff that is exclusively dissonant. I think it's just a matter of taste. I love Indian food, some people hate it. It's a subjective opinion. Anyway, I appreciate your passion and your writing style. Maybe I'll even listen to more music from the archives of Herr Berg. And now I'm curious what you thought of someone else's opinion in this space. Some guy named "mich.....something" who claimed that this posted song was "the worst Berg recording he had ever heard. I'm guessing you don't agree?

@VRnamek

8 жыл бұрын

how come have no basis in reality? the whole tonal scales come from the study of relations between pitches ever since Pythagoras. Dissonance and consonance are very real, physical phenomena and music embracing such a primordial force as its modus operandi has a very real base in reality, I'd say. This Berg sounds bearable enough because for the most part the main melodic lines have a very tonal-like quality to them and the bland atonal noise is mainly left to the background orchestral masses antagonizing the soloist. you have your own distorted prism and want to falsely accuse others of submitting to them...

This concerto proves that usually the most impressive "atonal" music is not totally atonal. By the way, the word "atonal" was created by the critics of this new kind of music (at the beginning of the 20- th century) which was first "free tonality" (as called by Arnold Schönberg), and than became "Dodecaphony". This concerto by Alban Berg has elements of "Dodecaphony", of "free tonality", and also some elements of the traditional tonality, not only because of using a choral by Bach and the "Kärntner Volksweise".

OK, thank you for this clarification

To help people along:The Classical Era was the period of Western art music from the 1750s to the early 1820s- Major composers of this period include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Johann Christian Bach, Luigi Boccherini, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Salieri, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

"Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?"

@provideme1000

3 жыл бұрын

every angel is terrible

17:43 : Invariably reduces me to tears.

I believe that there is a brilliant analysis of this piece on the bbc website that you can hear by searching under radio 3 berg violin concerto.

love that waltz at 8:23 forward

Thanks Berg homie I lissen to this when I tune And yes I know hes no longer alive

A todas luces, nada dejaba entrever que Berg compusiera un concierto para violín, tan alejado parecía del virtuosismo instrumental, mas el encuentro con el violinista Louis Krasner y la penuria económica torcerían el destino. Doble circunstancia que permitieron emergiera una de las obras más hermosas del siglo XX. Aquel joven violinista de 32 años, evocó las composiciones para violín de grandes maestros que Berg tanto admiraba y cómo, a su parecer, el dodecafonismo debía producir algo más que música neuronal donde cupiera espacio para el alma. Sin demasiado convencimiento por parte del compositor, acordaron ponerse manos a la obra en busca de brisa favorable. Faltaba a Berg un detonador que al poco ofrecería un evento dramático. En abril de 1935 Manon, hija de Alma Mahler y de Walter Gropius, a quien Alban profesaba un gran cariño, enfermó de poliomielitis y falleció. Así este Concierto se convertiría en el réquiem por un ángel. El motivo matricial lo hallaría en el esquema de la Sinfonía nº9 de Mahler. Epítome de dolor contenido que inspira las diez medidas de la serie dodecafónica medular en dos movimientos; rematados por un broche tonal prestado de la cantata BWV 60 de Bach (O ewigkeit, du Donnerwort!). Una vez más Berg usa y culmina el legado clásico tramándolo en la nueva música. El concierto a la memoria de un ángel es la ultima obra de Berg y, en cierto modo, su testamento musical aunando magistralmente lenguaje dodecafónico y remate tonal, para mejor expresar un sentimiento desgarrador. Situación tanto más patética que él mismo sufría una infección generalizada que le conduciría a la muerte al poco de finalizar esta obra. La creación tendría lugar en Barcelona, el 19 de abril de 1936. Para entonces, Alban Berg ya había expirado en la Nochebuena de 1935, tras un septicemia provocada por una picadura de abeja. Las elucubraciones sobre numerología y otros valores imperdibles me parecen irrelevantes, como sostiene Adorno, «Berg no pactó con estos, no se aprovisionó de ningún acervo eterno; el porte de su música está sobradamente comprometido con la muerte para eso».

... is weel héél mooi...

@rogeralgase8651

8 жыл бұрын

+Johan Vandendriessche It certainly is.

Damn, this made me itchy!

Alban Berg n'a écrit que des chefs d'oeuvre, dont celui-ci. Il est très difficile d'écrire un concerto pour violon après un tel sommet.

nice

Brilliant recording, though it's a shame Heifetz never recorded this piece...

And more than anything else, your civility. :)

Sounds a little angsty, John, but I've only listened to 2 minutes so far. Did you know that when you put the front of your foot on the front of your favorite recliner, this is sometimes called a "con-chair-toe"? Ok, now I'll get back to this piece and will let you know what I actually think later. Thx for unusual, obscure posting!

@jamisondavid100

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Brendan Hussey Not unusual, nor obscure. I believe Berg's violin concerto is one of the most popular compositions of twentieth century music.

@MahlayStudios

9 жыл бұрын

I encourage you, and also everyone who sees this, to listen to more dissonant music. There is beauty that needs to be found. Dissonance is usually associated with negative emotions, but the more one listens to dissonance, his ears will soon appreciate it.

@GenericGoogleAccount

8 жыл бұрын

+Maksym Mahlay "Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful." -Charles Ives

@MahlayStudios

8 жыл бұрын

TheBrawlMaster Of course, but your argument is supporting me more. Dissonant music, a tonally centered person would argue, is a bunch of random notes written down. The reason many people, including me, are calling dissonance beautiful because they analyzed it, adapted to it, and are seeking new horizons of dissonance. So, in a sense, we will never fully adapt to dissonance because there is so much more to explore. Also, I feel that Ives was talking about people that were tonally centered, and were unwilling to move on into the new worlds of music.

@GenericGoogleAccount

8 жыл бұрын

+Maksym Mahlay "Of course, but your argument is supporting me more." And that was my intention, after reading your post, I had this quote in mind. "I feel that Ives was talking about people that were tonally centered, and were unwilling to move on into the new worlds of music" Yeah, that's what I thought.

Interesting that the more "acceptable" modernist works are - er - usually more "accepted". I love Berg's concerto so I'm definitely not knocking it, but I do note that his reconciliation of 12 note construction with Romanticism actually places the new at the service of the old rather than being forward looking - a kind of modernist anti-modernism. Nothing wrong with that, but if taken as a touchstone it would mean that music never moves on. (I guess all this is irrelevant these days with the vast expansion of the experimental purview...)

Ein so ergreifendes Werk.

The problem with Atonal music is that there is no anchor, no hook. It fits in perfectly as background music for a Horror movie.

@1DandyDan

4 жыл бұрын

aah - no hook, how astute.

@hansmahr8627

3 жыл бұрын

There are lots of atonal pieces that would fit as a horror film soundtrack. This isn't one of them. It's extremely lyrical and beautiful.

@MicoAquinoComposer

2 жыл бұрын

@@hansmahr8627 Agreed

messrtwinky: Change your password!

i wish berg would have died in 1937 and we could have hear his mext opera after lulu danton tod

I read somewhere else the angel was Mahler's yougest daughter...

@leocadieux6781

4 жыл бұрын

Zorbeck Legras No, it was the daughter of Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius.

@jansnauwaert1785

4 жыл бұрын

@@leocadieux6781 Alma Mahler was a whore and overall a terrible woman, but this daughter, Manon Gropius, seems to have been a wondeful human being (exploited by the mother).

9:11

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Is this copyrighted?

This rec rather belongs in the category "predominantly virtuosic".

I must be deaf. Is this a negative review?

I gotta know what your credentials are!! This has ruined my morning, maybe because I'm a more sensitive musician than you are, if you indeed are one. Will your reply reach me in my messages box? Please be somewhat civil and kind, remembering I don't mean disrespect, just what your musical background is. Do you feel the same about Yo-Yo Ma? Respectfully,

Schoenberg and Webern are easier to understand. All of them are great. So; post modern?

Again, thank you! Does anybody out there know how someone can leave comments under MY user id. messrtwinky....I did NOT leave the mesage to ProPatria91 -- "I must be deaf. Is this a negative review?" It's beginning to spook me. That's the second time someone has left a comment (elsewhere) under my identity!! Anyone have any ideas?

too much information is like no-information

Got stoned

what genre and period is this?

@ambercollins8777

10 жыл бұрын

I think it might be Romanticism and a Violin Concerto. You might want to double check though.

@LemonieY

10 жыл бұрын

It is a violin concerto written in 1935. But it is actually a twentieth century composition with a few late romantic gestures in it. It is a serial composition using tone rows and some tonal elements.

@KinkyLettuce

10 жыл бұрын

Amber Collins i doubt if theres any romanticism in this piece

@TheLMBLucas

10 жыл бұрын

Expressionism, 2nd School of Vienna

@GenericGoogleAccount

9 жыл бұрын

Natalie-Claire Sessions Serialism, 20th century

18 violists

Listen to Grumiaux's pure version. You won't be the same person afterwards. This is maudlin and shlocky.

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Basta "Lulu" - Viva "Manon" [10:58] !

Ronda,undorítóan szól,bántja a fület...

it isn't that much atonal. It's even more than 50 % tonal! I didn't find the work repulsive but also I didn't find it interresting. Neutral music... but Great interpretation.

@jansnauwaert1785

4 жыл бұрын

Well, it is a great masterpiece nevertheless. Easily the greatest violin concerto of the 20th century.

Takes all sorts. I love classical music - Beethoven, Bach, Mozart etc but this is horrible to my ears. Maybe it's an acquired taste?

@user-nb1rq7so9h

4 жыл бұрын

This isn't classical music. I think it's more contemporary but correct me if I'm wrong.

@jansnauwaert1785

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-nb1rq7so9h It's "classical" (but what does that mean, classical?). But it is atonal music. It's a fantastic masterpiece, one of the greatest in the whole history of music.

@ha3vy

3 жыл бұрын

It's an absolutely different harmonic system one needs to get used to. When you do, it can be really pleasant, so yeah kind of

Tedious, boring, never uses the instrument to its fullest potential. Much prefer Prokofiev or Beethoven

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Mr. Perlman. He's probably a pretty nice guy and loves his family and dog (or cat), but to successfully project a complex work like the Berg Concerto requires a level of musical insight and intelligence he simply doesn't, nor perhaps cares to, possess. His operas, Wozzeck and Lulu, have been well recorded over the years by many first rate conductors, but the leader of the pack is clearly Bruno Maderna whose own music makes Berg seem like Mozart!

@eikecoetzee2251

6 жыл бұрын

michsturge listen to Perlman playing the Schindler's list theme and think about your comment again

@ManorHouseMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thus Spoke Salieri. 😂

Worst recording of the Berg ever. PLEASE listen to Thomas Zehetmaier, Josef Suk, and if you can handle crappy sound, Krasner with Anton Webern conducting a live BBC radio broadcast several days after the premiere. They will show you what can be done with the work. Technically, Perlman is impressive but an interpretive zero. Ozawa doesn't seem to know what to do with the work either.

Perlman is even worse than remembered. Most passages are played in the same light and skittish fashion as he plays those brainless encore pieces which are the only works he seems to be able to intellectually grasp. The most overrated ell known violinist of our time by the wide margin.

I came here from an Ulcerate video. They are not as different as you'd think.