Prom 57: Wagner, Berg, R. Strauss & Ravel Berg - Violin Concerto Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Daniele Gatti conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin Royal Albert Hall, 26 August 2012
One of my favorite parts of this piece is the Bach quote at 18:19. Just knowing the text behind Bach's chorale, along with Berg's feelings on the movements is powerful I think.
The change from the liveliness of the young girl in the 1st mvt to the anger at the start of the 2nd mvt and then "It is enough". This piece moves me so much
I can't think of another work in which balance is such an issue. It's unique in its balance of intellectual complexity and emotional power, and the focus shifts constantly between soloist and orchestra. I agree that in this recording the balance was completely lost at times. There were places where you only heard the melodic line if you knew it.
Good performance spoiled by the lack of insight displayed by the recording engineers. The balance is atrocious, as it so often is today. It is unforgivable that the violin tune after the chorale is completely swamped by the trombones, who are supposed to be playing in the background, and we miss the wonderful moment when the violin sings alone, and then is joined, one by one, by the other violins until they are all playing in unison.
I don't get it....the next concerto in the list, in the right side, is Beethoven concerto, and that is what I call real music. but this is a joke.....and some people think they know so much about music, that they find this monstrosity pleasant , honestly...get real guys.
Just because something isn’t immediately pleasant to the ear doesn’t mean that it is devoid of musical value. Berg wrote this piece because of the death of a close friend’s daughter, and the music reflects that horrifying truth without pretense. Without pieces like this, you wouldn’t hear any of the terrifying horror movie music film composers use today. Instead of immediately judging something unfamiliar, why not be curious about it?
Garbage is garbage, it doesn't have to be qualified by an adjective of this type. You are ignorant and stone deaf (sorry for that) not absolutely ignorant and stone deaf. I will be praying for your karma becasue to dismiss an man's heart-felt and hard-worked creation damages your soul more than it damages his. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
