Instrumental, Piano Solos, Piano Sonatas, Berg (composer)
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Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Ehnes gives a hauntingly elegiac account of Berg’s Violin Concerto...[He] makes it sound like a requiem not only for Manon Gropius, but also for Berg himself...His mellow tone is ideally captured... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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the intensity doesn’t let up, but neither does the quality of the playing...Indebted to Bach and to Liszt, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica can be an impenetrable work. Levit’s approach is lucid... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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a fine demonstration of Leonskaja’s commitment to music whose fascination – and provocation – remains endless. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th September 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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What riches we already have here. Geniushene's Chopin is impeccably crisp and articulate improvisatory, yet at the same time tasteful and disciplined...This is an outstanding album that left... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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Berg - Orchestral Works
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) & Robert Murray (tenor)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago
Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight,... —
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Vienne 1900
Eric Le Sage (piano), Zvi Plesser (cello), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
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George Tsontakis's Man of Sorrows is a six-movement mediation of nearly 40 minutes' duration on Christ's crucifixion. Brilliantly written for the keyboard and scintillatingly orchestrated,... —
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Berg: Violin Concerto & Lulu Suite
Franz Peter Zimmermann (violin), Arleen Augér (soprano), Peter Donohoe (piano), Sine Bundgaard (soprano)
Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Alban Berg Quartet, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sir Simon Rattle, Ingo...
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It's something of a challenge to recast Berg's Op. 1 Piano Sonata as a work for string sextet. …this arrangement, made by the Artemis Quartet's violinist Heime Müller, works wonderfully well.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, Chamber Choice
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