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The Alban Berg Collection | 
| Artists: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lasalle Qt, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Creators: Alfred Sramek, Franz Grundheber, Franz Mazura, Pierre-yves Le Maigat, Toni Blankenheim, Dietrich Fischer-dieskau, Aage Haugland, Alexander Maly, Gerd Nienstedt, Jules Bastin, Sabine Meyer, Alban Berg, Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Anna Gonda, Anna Ringart, Ursula Boese, Yvonne Minton, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Paris Opera Orchestra, Paris Ensemble Intercontemporain, Oleg Maisenberg, Bengt Forsberg, Aribert Reimann, Hildegard Behrens, Jane Manning, Teresa Stratas, Hannah Schwarz, Juliane Banse, Claude Meloni, Helmut Pampuch, Heinz Zednik, Peter Jelosits, Philip Langridge, Robert Tear, Walter Raffeiner, Gidon Kremer, Anne-sophie Mutter, Pinchas Zukerman, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Boys' Choir
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: Music
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 54583
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 548
Discs: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 000205102
UPC: 028947465720
EAN: 0028947465720
ASIN: B0000B09Z4
Release Date: November 10, 2003
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The day the world ended April 12, 2007
20 out of 35 found this review helpful
Alban Berg (1885-1935) Discover this world of beauty and love , horror , death and defiance .
I first heard and then studied this man's music in my early twenties , and I fell in love.
I bought this CD edition from the U.S (at a crazy inflated price) and have revisited the man and his music anew and I have to say that - unlike many other returns - this is no nostalgic re-living ; I find it afresh, and his light undimmed and far brighter . The orchestral writing , and playing , is an inspiration. Here is colour and texture that you simply won't find anywhere else .Buy it immediately . Indulge that early 21st century longing for Real Life with ...
I can't put my finger on the reason for this , but Alban atomises all my usual reservations and the tragedy that is The Second Viennese School. His fluidity of line is such that rhythm transcends its' usual confines and appears to sustain everything,and does so - to my ears - quite anonymously. I never really considered this dimension of his music before, because every facet is somehow presented seamlessly, but now this rhythmic element is remarkable, and this could also be said of a harmonic/melodic sense and delineation of structure as concentrated and pure and beautiful as J.S.Bach's. This is music conceived, written down, performed and recorded of the highest order.
Detractors will find an easy path to critique and deliberate marginalisation through Hollywood's appropriation of that style(e.g.Op.6)But Hollywood this ain't.
You will inhale new-mown Viennese grass , see the people , taste their delights and their food and the smell of their acrid tobacco and almost touch a world.
Now, hearing it again in 2007,it seems unbearably sad that this world is gone and that we chose an easier, lesser path; but that is what he was saying all along.
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