Title: An Extraordinary Disc
Product review: This is a must have recording for anyone interested in Berg's Violin Concerto. It is the second performance of the work, conducted by Anton Webern on May 1, 1936, less than 6 months after Berg's untimely death.The performance is excellent. There could be no better interpretation of the concerto. The recording (a live performance) is quite good by the standards of the day and the transfer is superb. Louis Krasner, for whom the concerto was written, plays wonderfully. At the conclusion, the orchestra overwhelms his notes, but this is a small matter compared to his performance. There is some coughing at the start of the concerto but the audience becomes caught up in the music, so new to their ears.We have the chance to go back in time to when the Berg concerto was barely known, and as an historical document of the event it is priceless. You will not be sorry if you buy this disc.
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