Word: berge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continuing search recording for business. Over the last 15 years, Lieberson has won a reputation for adventurous programming. Soon after his arrival, Columbia released such radical items as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Bartok's Contrasts, and continued to rack up first recordings of modern masterpieces, e.g., Berg's Violin Concerto, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. Gradually, Columbia built a stable of its own name artists (Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Joseph Szigeti), and created a new source of fine music as a major underwriter of the first Casals Festival. By the time Columbia introduced...
Four Sonatas for Piano (Zadel Skolovsky; Columbia). A talented pianist enthusiastically takes on four distinctive 20th century styles: Scriabin's still-misty modernity (Sonata No. 4); Alban Berg's early and rather turbid atonality (Sonata, Op. 1) ; Bartok's lean, athletic, but vividly coherent paganism (Sonata); and Hindemith's smooth-flowing manner that says little at great length (Sonata No. 2). The performances are clean and sure...
...Berg: Violin Concerto (Louis Krasner; Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinsky; Columbia). One of the meatiest, most listenable concertos of the century, played by the man who introduced it in 1936. Written in the twelve-tone technique, it combines all the nervous subtleties of that idiom with the undeniable decadence of Berg's own style, but still appeals strongly to the ear. More complex (and less appealing) is the piece on the reverse side: another great modern...
Violin Concerto, by Berg's teacher, Arnold Schonberg, which still has a reputation as the most difficult concerto of all. Both are on LPs for the first time...
Having introduced his characters, Jarrell finds nothing much for them to do. The talk ranges from Holbein to Mondrian, from Balzac to Thomas Mann, and from Beethoven to Alban Berg. But about all that happens in the whole course of the novel is that an English teacher dies and the music teacher hires a secretary. Wound up like talking clocks on Page One. each of the characters finally runs down by Page...