Berg - Violin Concerto

[Bunny]

I don't get much from that link; just a screen asking for my email authorization.

[karlhenning]

. . . but Mutter goes with me to the desert island.

You mean, her recording of the Berg Concerto, right, Sarge? 

[dirkronk]

I don't get much from that link; just a screen asking for my email authorization.

Sorry, Bunny. That's Yahoo intruding...as a security measure. If you don't have an "identity" on Yahoo, you probably have to sign up (it's free--and so are memberships to most groups they host, such as OperaShare) before you can access pages inside any of their groups. Or if you already have a relationship with Yahoo, they'll occasionally ask you to type in your email & password just to make sure you are who you say you are.

Anyway, the link is to a download on OperaShare of Berg Violin Concerto with L. Kavakos and the Philadelphia Orch/Eschenbach from a concert given at Verizon Hall, Philadelphia on 16 November 2006.

Cheers,

Dirk

[dirkronk]

You mean, her recording of the Berg Concerto, right, Sarge? 

Hey Karl...don't squash any of Sarge's dreams. His desert island, his fantasy.

[karlhenning]

I am rightly rebuked, Dirk 

[Bunny]

Sorry, Bunny. That's Yahoo intruding...as a security measure. If you don't have an "identity" on Yahoo, you probably have to sign up (it's free--and so are memberships to most groups they host, such as OperaShare) before you can access pages inside any of their groups. Or if you already have a relationship with Yahoo, they'll occasionally ask you to type in your email & password just to make sure you are who you say you are.

Anyway, the link is to a download on OperaShare of Berg Violin Concerto with L. Kavakos and the Philadelphia Orch/Eschenbach from a concert given at Verizon Hall, Philadelphia on 16 November 2006.

Cheers,

Dirk

thanks Dirk!  I'll be downloading that asap.

Sorry, but the link is taking me around in a circle and not showing me any download links, and I have a Yahoo mail box, too.

[lukeottevanger]

May not be the 'best' performance out there, certainly is the worst sounding, but the one I always return to is the Krasner/Webern/BBCSO live second performance (Testament). Apart from its obvious historical significance, this performance is unparalleled in intensity, as if the piece is a farewell from conductor and soloist to the recently deceased Berg as well as it was his to Manon; and also, surely, a farewell to the whole Viennese artistic ferment which was about to go under. There's something in Krasner's playing, and that of the BBCSO, which I haven't heard elsewhere - the notes are new, and hair-raising, and for that reason they sound right on the edge of things. More modern performances are comfortable in comparison, and they shouldn't be, I think, in this piece.

[dirkronk]

thanks Dirk!  I'll be downloading that asap.

Sorry, but the link is taking me around in a circle and not showing me any download links, and I have a Yahoo mail box, too.

Hmmm. Chances are, you'll have to go through full sign-up for OperaShare membership, too. (I take it that you don't have that yet.) That means reading a few pages of info so you'll know what types of joining, cue-sheet and other software you need. All this is free to download, but it takes a little time to set up and learn...still, I've found the process well worth it. That site gets some very nice little gems on it. I just download the audio stuff, but there's tons of video stuff (opera, ballet, etc.) there too. I still do the totally free download "tickets" but have been tempted to join the premium level so I can download without waits.

Cheers,

Dirk

[Bunny]

Dirk, I have a provisional membership now but can't access any of the pages because I'm not authorized.  I don't know how I can participate if I can't even read the conversations.  Is a puzzlement!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Kyung Wha Chung's heavenly tone/timbre/technique is a delight.

[quintett op.57]

thank you all

[Kullervo]

Boulez/Zukerman on Sony was my introduction to Berg. I still think it's a great recording.

[Lethevich]

Dirk, I have a provisional membership now but can't access any of the pages because I'm not authorized.  I don't know how I can participate if I can't even read the conversations.  Is a puzzlement!

Weird indeed - anyway - this is the DL link the page contained, to save more bother:

http://rapidshare.com/files/5537334/Berg_Kakakos.zip

[Drasko]

Weird indeed - anyway - this is the DL link the page contained, to save more bother:

http://rapidshare.com/files/5537334/Berg_Kakakos.zip

Many thanks! 

[MISHUGINA]

After hearing this recording I'm a big fan of this work:



I'm no fan of Ozawa but this is one of the very few recordings where he doesn't sound either pedestrian, stiff or eccentric in conducting. But I hear the Anne Sophie-Mutter/CSO/Levine constantly tops the recommendation so should I get that too?

[Todd]

Already covered . . .

[karlhenning]

Will somebody please explain to me just what there IS to like in Berg VC?

All the beautiful sounds, chiefly.

[Harry Collier]

The easiest first 8 notes any violin concerto has (G, D, A, E, E, A, D, G) - provided you tuned the violin correctly - no-one can fault your intonation.

Yes, that's always the bit I recognise. After that, the music just seems to ramble on, and on, and on. Then, eventually, it finishes.

[Larry Rinkel]

Yes, that's always the bit I recognise. After that, the music just seems to ramble on, and on, and on. Then, eventually, it finishes.

Quite obviously, many here find much more of substance and order in the work than that.

[Rabin_Fan]

Another opening bit (like the opening 8 notes of the Berg) is Ysaye Solo Sonata Op 27 No 2 - after JS Bach's Third Solo Partita's opening salvo. After that, Ysaye goes his own way.