Violin Concerto / Three Orchestral Pieces

Album by Alban Berg & Gidon Kremer & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Sir Colin Davis

Violin Concerto / Three Orchestral Pieces is an album of orchestral works by Alban Berg, featuring pieces dating from 1935 and 1913. The music blends late-Romantic lyricism and expressionist atonality, with the violin concerto juxtaposing poignant melodic fragments within a twelve-tone framework while the orchestral pieces explore dense, colouristic textures and rhythmically driven expressionism that helped bridge late Romanticism and early serialism in Berg's career.