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The Alban Berg quartet had more than one string to their bows

2020-06-12T18:17:17.200Z


A box of 62 CDs and 8 DVDs gives the measure of the perfection achieved by this Austrian training. As well as their extreme requirement.


The 62 CDs and 8 DVDs contained in the monumental box set devoted by Warner Classics to the complete recordings of the Alban Berg Quartet are commensurate with the fabulous history of this legendary formation which would have been 50 years old this year had it not been dissolved in 2008. Nobody has forgotten the unmissable event for their concerts at the Champs-Élysées Theater where Jeanine Roze brought them in several times a year, and not only by the mythical complete Beethoven in 1988.

Formal perfection

This box is the reflection of the formal perfection and the expressive intensity of their game, but especially of their extreme requirement. The one that, before each concert, admitted by the first violin, Günter Pichler, they rehearsed "at least an hour and a half, even if the work had already been given several times on tour". And that makes cellist Valentin Erben admit that he had "no life outside the quartet" .

It was in 1970 that Günter Pichler decided to found the first quartet

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Source: lefigaro

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