Berg's pupil Adorno once said, 'Whoever is seriously trying to comprehend Berg's music should closely apply themselves to the eleven-page piano sonata'. It is tempting to enlarge upon this statement:...
These seven compositions for voice were written in the early part of Alban Berg's distinguished career, a period during which he was under the instruction of Arnold Schoenberg. Long available for sopr...
The Seven Early Songs as they appear here are revisions, or to be even more precise, revisions of reworkings of Berg's own compositions. Together with many others, the songs were composed during the y...
In a letter to Erwin Schulhoff, Berg bitterly complained about his unsuccessful attempt to find a publisher for his 'Pieces for Clarinet', 'Once again at my own expense! A few antique pieces in my apa...
From Sieben Frühe Lieder, the choral transcription of Im Zimmer provides a fascinating glimpse at the compositional bent of a young Alban Berg, decried by his mentor Arnold Schönberg as 'too vocal. '...
