Alban Berg, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Anton Webern, Antonín Dvorák, Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann, Bedřich Smetana, Wolfgang Rihm, Alfred Schnittke, Johann Strauss, Leoš Janáček, Witold Lutosławski, Luciano Berio, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Gottfried von Einem
Spanning repertoire from the Classical to the contemporary and some 30 years of the Alban Berg Quartett’s career, these recordings evince the achievement of an ensemble whose very name honours both the tradition and innovative musical spirit of its home city, Vienna. Founded in 1970, it soon became recognised as one of the defining quartets of the 20th century and went on to make two landmark recordings of the complete Beethoven cycle, the first in the studio, the second live at Vienna’s Konzerthaus (presented here in both CD and DVD versions). This 70-disc set, which in addition features DVDs of Schubert and a live performance in St Petersburg, also documents the Alban Berg Quartett’s collaborations with such artists as Sabine Meyer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder and Philippe Entremont.
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