Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Fifty years ago, the Alban Berg Quartet was founded. A huge box set, comforting yet daring, is an immersive celebration. By David ...

The Dover String Quartet brings Dacia a new recording (from the night before) of Alban Berg’s Opus 3, and they jam to some 12 tones in a row!

This was a concert with a thesis: to illustrate "how Webern's mesmerising temporal compression was the natural outcome of Haydn's well-honed instincts for structural balance and Brahms' polyphonic ...

Great chamber music playing is supposed to be about a seamless fusion of separate musical parts, a harmonious democracy in which individual freedom is sacrificed for the good of the whole. But the ...

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.

The celebrated Alban Berg Quartet is playing the final chapter of its 36-year harmonious history with a worldwide farewell concert tour. The quartet, comprised of violinist Gunter Pichler, violinist ...

The Alban Berg Quartet preserves a bygone style of playing: the rich full string sound of Central Europe. Founded in 1971, the group has maintained its position as one of the leading string quartets ...

If Festivals are supposed to inspire, then Brighton Festival's outing to Glyndebourne inspired in spades. Mind you, the Alban Berg Quartet have had 30 years experience of music making from which to ...

On the concert platform, there is something businesslike about the Alban Berg Quartet. They waste no time between works with unnecessary exits and entrances, nor do they ostentatiously seek applause ...

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If the first performances of Beethoven's String Quartet Op130 had been in the hands of the Alban Berg Quartet, nothing would have persuaded the composer to provide the easier alternative for the last ...