Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein – Alban Berg & Belá Bartók Violin Concertos (Remastered) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein – Alban Berg & Belá Bartók Violin Concertos (Remastered) (2022)
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Early in 1935, the American violinist Louis Krasner suggested to Berg that he write a violin concerto, but Berg, involved with the orchestration of his opera Lulu, was not then interested in a new project. However, the death from poliomelytis of his young friend Manon Gropius, daughter of Mahler’s widow, that spring so saddened him that he decided to compose a concerto as a memorial to her. Te score was finished on August 11, 1935 – record time for the slow-working, meticulous Berg. Dedicated ‘to the memory of an angel’ the Violin Concerto was to be his last completed work, for on December 24 he died of septicemia of the age of fifty. Krasner gave the world premiere on April 19, 1936, in Barcelona, under Hermann Scherchen.

Tracklist:

01. Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein – Berg: Violin Concerto “To the Memory of an Angel”: I. Andante – Allegretto (10:18)
02. Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein – Berg: Violin Concerto “To the Memory of an Angel”: II. Allegro (ma sempre rubato) – Adagio (15:13)
03. Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein – Bartók: Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, Sz. 90: I. Lassù (Moderato) – Mäßig (04:44)
04. Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein – Bartók: Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, Sz. 90: II. Friss (Allegro moderato) – Gemächlich (06:34)
05. Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein – Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112: I. Allegro non troppo (15:22)
06. Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein – Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112: II. Andante tranquillo – Allegro scherzando – Tempo primo (10:05)
07. Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein – Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112: III. Allegro molto (10:57)

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