Alban Berg

Overview - Recordings - Scores - Books - Links

Born: February 9, 1885, Vienna, Austria
Died: December 24, 1935, Vienna, Austria

The Chamber Concerto is one of Berg's major works and thus makes for a landmark in the wind ensemble repertoire. It's a complex piece, and Boulez's recording makes a fine introduction to it. It's coupled with several Stravinsky pieces including the Ebony Concerto. The performance and the sound are both first rate. Hindemith's recording is taken from a mono broadcast in 1959, coupled with his own Symphony in B Flat. There are other recordings available, but these are the ones that are coupled with other wind works.

Recordings

	Works	Performers	Reviews	Stores
	Chamber Concerto	Daniel Barenboim and Pinchas Zukerman Ensemble InterContemporain Pierre Boulez	Kagan Silverton	Tower Amazon
	Chamber Concerto	Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Paul Hindemith	Wiser	Tower Amazon

Scores

Chamber Concerto

Books

The New Grove Second Viennese School by Oliver Neighbour, George Perle, and Paul Griffiths
Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link by Theodor Adorno
The Cambridge Companion to Berg edited by Anthony Pople