Alban Berg Lyric Suite For String Quartet (1925-1926)

Alban Berg Lyric Suite for string quartet (1925-1926) Allegretto gioviale 00:00 Andante amoroso 03:09 Allegro misterioso – Trio estatico 09:26 Adagio appassionato 12:43 Presto delirando – Tenebroso 19:05 Largo desolato 24:00 Juilliard String Quartet Robert Mann, violin Earl Carlyss, violin Samuel Rhodes, viola Claus Adam, cello Live recording: Ascona, August 24, 1970 Painting: Amedeo Modigliani, The Red Woman, 1915, Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna The Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926 using methods derived from Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique. […] As Berg’s friend and fellow Schoenberg pupil Erwin Stein wrote in the preface to the score, “The work (Ist and VIth part, the main part of the IIIrd and the middle section of the Vth) has been mostly written strictly in accordance with Schoenberg’s technique of the ’Composition with 12 inwardly related ton