Neue Wiener Schule: Schoenberg, Berg, Webern Streichquartette [IMPORT]

Jack Kirstein (Performer), Alban Berg (Composer), Arnold Schoenberg (Composer), Anton Webern (Composer), LaSalle Quartet (Performer), Margaret Price (Performer), Peter Kamnitzer (Performer), Henry Meyer (Performer), Walter Levin (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Jack Kirstein, LaSalle Quartet, Margaret Price, Peter Kamnitzer, Henry Meyer, et al.
• Composer: Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern
• Audio CD (March 21, 2005)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Int'l
• ASIN: B000001G8L
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #183,575 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7: 1. Nicht zu rasch

2. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7: 2. Kräftig

3. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7: 3. Mäßig

4. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7: 4. Mäßig - heiter

5. String Quartet No. 2 for soprano & string quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 10: 1. Mäßig (Moderato)

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Disc: 2

1. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30: 1. Moderato

2. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30: 2. Adagio

3. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30: 3. Intermezzo. Allegro moderato

4. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30: 4. Rondo. Molto moderato

5. String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37: 1. Allegro molto; Energico

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Disc: 3

1. String Quartet in D major: 1. Allegro molto

2. String Quartet in D major: 2. Intermezzo. Andantino grazioso

3. String Quartet in D major: 3. Andante con moto

4. String Quartet in D major: 4. Allegro

5. Movements (5) for string quartet, Op. 5: 1. Heftig bewegt

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Disc: 4

1. Lyric Suite, for string quartet: 1. Allegretto gioviale

2. Lyric Suite, for string quartet: 2. Andante amoroso

3. Lyric Suite, for string quartet: 3. Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico

4. Lyric Suite, for string quartet: 4. Adagio appassionato

5. Lyric Suite, for string quartet: 5. Presto delirando - Tenebroso

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Webern a la Schubert", January 5, 2000

By A Customer

The much underrated LaSalle Quartet gives loving performances in this now famous box-set. This quartet was long known for it's interpretations of the music of the Second Viennese School, and it's good to have these performances remain in the catalogue. Important also is the inclusion of the fascinating (and lengthy) theoretical study in the booklet.

If you are a fan of what chamber music and recordings are supposed to be about, add this set to your library.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is one of the best, June 17, 2000

By	Ray Barnes (Surrey, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This recording has been in the catalogue for a long time and has won numerous awards in Europe, and deservedly so. Artistically they can stand comparison with any of their competitors, including the old mono set of the Schoenberg quartets done by the Hollywood Quartet as a gift to the composer (for which he added a note of thanks and admiration). The sound quality has always been very fine. The documentation is equal in length and depth of analysis to a short book and is worthy of 6 stars. The original release on LPs, when I first heard it, was packaged in a large box set that would normally have been sufficient to contain the complete Beethoven symphonies; the extra room was needed just for the booklet. This is not easy music but is definitely worth the effort. Highest recommendation.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best chamber music ever from the so-called "atonal" school!, September 30, 2004

By	Eric Koenig "Isa" (Kalamazoo, MI United States) - See all my reviews

Arnold Schoenberg complained towards the end of his life that he had been forever saddled with the label of the man who had invented the so-called twelve-tone system of composition. He emphasized he was a composer first and foremost and the methods he employed were irrelevant to the discussion, and he was right. Tonal or atonal or twelve-tone, his music, together with that of his students and colleagues Alban Berg and Anton von Webern, was that of profound beauty and brilliance and wonder. The LaSalle Quartet brings to life almost a dozen works here: the four numbered Quartets by Schoenberg as well as an early work in that form he had written; Berg's early Quartet Op. 3 and the Lyric Suite; Webern's Five Pieces and Six Bagatelles for Quartet and the Quartet Op. 28 plus an early Slow Movement for Quartet, almost a one-movement Quartet in itself. The performances are unsurpassed and absolutely nobody who enjoys music from the 20th Century should be without this in their collection of chamber music. I first heard this while it was available on LP 28 years ago. It was stunning then and it is stunning now.