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The celebrated Alban Berg Quartet is playing the final chapter of its 36-year harmonious history with a worldwide farewell concert tour. The quartet, comprised of violinist Gunter Pichler, violinist ...

The Alban Berg Quartet preserves a bygone style of playing: the rich full string sound of Central Europe. Founded in 1971, the group has maintained its position as one of the leading string quartets ...

It was to be their little secret, one they took to their graves — he in 1935 and she in 1964. But the discovery in 1977 of an annotated miniature score of Alban Berg’s “Lyric Suite” changed all that.

As generous applause for Alfred Schnittke's String Quartet No. 4 ended, an audience member remarked, "On the eve of a war, that was perfect music." The comment said it all, for the piece struck with ...

If Festivals are supposed to inspire, then Brighton Festival's outing to Glyndebourne inspired in spades. Mind you, the Alban Berg Quartet have had 30 years experience of music making from which to ...

The celebrated Alban Berg Quartet is playing the final chapter of its 36-year harmonious history with a worldwide farewell concert tour. The Alban Berg Quartet will have its finale concert on May 31 ...

On the concert platform, there is something businesslike about the Alban Berg Quartet. They waste no time between works with unnecessary exits and entrances, nor do they ostentatiously seek applause ...

If the first performances of Beethoven's String Quartet Op130 had been in the hands of the Alban Berg Quartet, nothing would have persuaded the composer to provide the easier alternative for the last ...

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