Composer: Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Johannes Brahms, Franz Joseph Haydn, Roman Hoffstetter, Leoš Janáček, Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Wolfgang Rihm, Franz Peter Schubert, Bedrich Smetana, Johann Strauss, Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Alban Berg Quartett
Number of Discs: 5
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 3976292
Release: 2007
Size: 1.54 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 3 in C major ‘Emperor’
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Poco adagio – Cantabile (Thema) –
03. Variation I –
04. Variation II –
05. Variation III –
06. Variation IV –
07. III. Menuetto (Allegro)
08. IV. Finale (Presto)
Mozart: String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K499 ‘Hoffmeister’
09. I. Allegretto
10. II. Menuetto (Allegretto) & Trio
11. III. Adagio
12. IV. Molto Allegro
13. Hoffstetter: String Quartet in F major, Op. 3 No. 5 (formerly attrib. J. Haydn) : Andante cantabile (Serenade)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
14. I. Allegretto
15. II. Vivace
16. III. Lento assai e cantante tranquillo
17. IV. Grave ma non troppo tratto – Allegro
CD 02
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Rasumovsky No. 1’
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
03. III. Adagio molto e mesto
04. IV. Allegro (Thème russe)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
05. Adagio – Allegro vivace
06. Adagio non lento
07. Intermezzo (Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto)
08. Presto
CD 03
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From My Life’
01. I. Allegro vivo appassionato
02. II. Allegro moderato à la Polka
03. III. Largo sostenuto
04. IV. Vivace
Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’
05. I. Andante
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Moderato
08. IV. Allegro
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, Sz 91
09. I. Allegro
10. II. Prestissimo, con sordino
11. III. Non troppo lento
12. IV. Allegretto pizzicato
13. V. Allegro molto
CD 04
Ravel: String Quartet in F major
01. I. Moderato très doux
02. II. Assez vif-très rhthmé
03. III. Très lent
04. IV. Vif et agité
Berg: Lyric Suite
05. I. Allegretto giovale
06. II. Andante amoroso
07. III. Allegro misterioso
08. IV. Adagio appassionato
09. V. Presto delirando
10. VI. Largo desolato
11. Stravinsky: Stücke für Streichquartett: Double Canon (Raoul Dufy In Memoriam) (1959)
Rihm: String Quartet No. 4 (1980 / 81)
12. I. Agitato allegro – alla marcia, allegro ma non troppo
13. II. Con moto, allegro – andante – allegro molto
14. III. Adagio
CD 05
Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D887
01. I. Allegro molto moderato
02. II. Andante un poco moto
03. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) & Trio (Allegretto)
04. IV. Allegro assai
05. Lanner: Marien, Op. 143
06. Strauss: Wiener Gemüths, Op.116
07. Lanner: Die Werber Op. 103
A marvellous tribute to the Alban Berg Quartet’s huge recording legacy featuring wonderful performances of the Viennese classics, together with a brilliantly executed Bartók No. 4 and a classic Berg Lyric Suite.