Alban Berg's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra : In Remembrance of the Angels.
Recorded live from the Herkulessaal Munich, Sir Colin Davis conducts the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, with soloist Gidon Kremer, in a performance of Alban Berg's elegiac Violin Concerto. Alban Berg completed this concerto for violin and orchestra in 1935, impelled by the news of the...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English and German. |
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Germany :
ArtHaus Musik,
1984.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Recorded live from the Herkulessaal Munich, Sir Colin Davis conducts the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, with soloist Gidon Kremer, in a performance of Alban Berg's elegiac Violin Concerto. Alban Berg completed this concerto for violin and orchestra in 1935, impelled by the news of the death of Manon Gropius, the beautiful eighteen-year-old daughter of Mahler's widow by her second marriage, to the architect Walter Gropius. He dedicated it "to the memory of an angel." |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed November 13, 2015). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (82 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 01:21:13 |