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Artist: Alban Berg Quartett
Title Of Album: Hommage
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: EMI
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (Tracks+ no cue, no log, covers)
Total: 5 CDs, 06:15:11 min
Total Size: 1,56 Gb
Website: allmusic

Prior to the start of the group's farewell tour in 2008, EMI released this five-disc set entitled ABQ -- Alban Berg Quartett -- Hommage. In it are cherry-picked performances recorded between 1979 and 2000 from the Viennese quartet's wide-ranging catalog. Naturally, the group's namesake's Lyric Suite is included along with two Beethoven recordings, one early, one late. Partisans of the group have long asserted that the Alban Berg Quartet incarnated the deathless spirit of Viennese quartet playing. But though its focused vibrato and supple tempo rubato do sometimes evoke the memory of Alt Wien, the linear intensity, individualistic ensemble, and unrelenting concentration comes directly from the group's career-long engagement with contemporary music. Every work sounds utterly fresh in these performances, as if each were newly composed and this was its world premiere. The player's passion can appear to threaten the music in passages of highest expressivity, but instead of going down in flames, the performances somehow transcend the merely great for the truly sublime. It's amazing that this approach could work in such a wide range of repertoire, but the group pulls it off every time with performances as exciting as the best ever recorded.

Though the group's membership changed several times in its long career -- first violinist Günter Pichler and cellist Valentin Erben remained constant from the group's founding in 1971, but Gerhard Schulz replaced Klaus Maetzl after the original second violinist's death in 1978, and Thomas Kakuska replaced Hatto Beyerle after the original violist's death three years after that -- the Alban Berg Quartet were rightly considered one of the great quartets of their time. Taken together, these beautifully recordings form a superbly chosen overview of the group's career that will persuade listeners otherwise unfamiliar with them to seek out the rest of their recordings -- and no doubt regret that there will be no more. It should be added that Isabel Charisius became the group's third violist after Thomas Kakushka's death in 2005.

Tracklist:

CD1
1 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": I. Allegro 6:56        
2 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": II. Poco adagio - Cantabile (Thema) -1:11        
3 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": Variation I -1:07        
4 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": Variation II -1:10        
5 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": Variation III -1:11        
6 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": Variation IV -1:45        
7 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": III. Menuetto (Allegro) 4:26        
8 String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor": IV. Finale (Presto) 5:47        
9 String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, "Hoffmeister": I. Allegretto 9:31        
10 String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, "Hoffmeister": II. Menuetto (Allegretto) - Trio 2:53        
11 String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, "Hoffmeister": III. Adagio 8:00        
12 String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, "Hoffmeister": IV. Molto Allegro 5:13        
13 String Quartet in F, Op.3 No. 5 Hob III/17 [Previously attributed to Haydn]: Andante antabile 5:21        
14 String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op.135: I. Allegretto 6:19        
15 String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op.135: II. Vivace 3:20        
16 String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op.135: III. Lento assai e cantante tranquillo 8:27        
17 String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op.135: IV. Grave ma non troppo tratto - Allegro 7:02

CD2
    String Quartet No. 7 in F major ("Rasumovsky 1"), Op. 59/1    
1    1. Allegro 9:34        
2    2. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando 8:44        
3    3. Adagio molto e mesto -12:56        
4    4. Allegro (Thème russe) 8:17    
    
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13    
5    1. Adagio - Allegro vivace 7:41        
6    2. Adagio non lento 6:38        
7    3. Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto - Allegro di molto 4:29        
8    4. Presto - Adagio non lento - Recit. - Adagio come I. 9:17

CD 3
1    Streichquartett Nr. 1 e-moll "Aus meinem Leben"        
2    2. Allegro moderato à la polka    00:05:59    
3    3. Largo sostenuto    00:08:47    
4    4. Vivace    00:06:09    
5    Streichquartett Nr. 2 "Intime Briefe"        
6    2. Adagio    00:05:39    
7    3. Moderato    00:05:28    
8    4. Allegro    00:07:53    
9    Streichquartett Nr. 4 Sz 91 (BB 95)        
10    2. Prestissimo, con sordino    00:02:50    
11    3. Non troppo lento    00:05:20    
12    4. Allegretto pizzicato    00:02:54    
13    5. Allegro molto    00:05:34        

CD 4
Ravel - String Quartet in F
1    Streichquartett F-Dur        
2    2. Assez vif - Très rhythmé    00:06:52    
3    3. Très lent    00:09:19    
4    4. Vif et agité    00:04:50    

Berg - Lyric Suite for String Quartet
5    Lyrische Suite (für Streichquartett)        
6    2. Andante amoroso    00:05:38    
7    3. Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico    00:03:11    
8    4. Adagio appassionato    00:05:19    
9    5. Presto delirando - Tenebroso    00:04:30    
10    6. Largo desolato    00:05:33    

11    11. Stranvinsky - Double Canon (‘Raoul Dufy in Memoriam’)    00:01:31    

Rihm - String Quartet No. 4
12    Streichquartett Nr. 4        
13    2. Con moto, allegro - Andante - Allegro molto    00:06:56    
14    3. Adagio    00:06:49

CD 5
01. Schubert - String Quartet No. 15 in G, D. 887
1    I. Allegro molto moderato        
2    2. Andante un poco moto    00:12:21    
3    3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Trio: Allegretto    00:06:58    
4    4. Allegro assai    00:10:27    
5    Marien-Walzer op. 143    00:08:29    
6    Wiener Gemüths-Walzer op. 116    00:06:45    
7    Die Werber op. 103 (Walzer)    00:08:29

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