Berg Chamber Concerto
Boulez Emsemble & Daniel Barenboim
Musical Performance Chamber Music / Ensemble & Orchestra 0Alban Berg composed the Chamber Concerto between 1923 and 1925, dedicating it to his former mentor Arnold Schoenberg as a belated 50th-birthday gift. It premiered in Berlin in March 1927. The scoring for a 15-part ensemble—which incorporates concerto-like solo roles for the piano and violin—gives the piece a transparent yet kaleidoscopic texture. The Chamber Concerto also bridges the gap between Berg’s freer, “Expressionist” atonal idiom and the stricter approach, more “Neoclassical” in outlook, of the new 12-tone method that Schoenberg had begun to finetune in the early 1920s. This is music both of meticulous construction—Boulez hailed it as Berg’s “strictest composition”—and teeming with encrypted secrets. Berg himself noted that, “if it became known how much friendship, love, and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of program music—if there are any left—would go mad with joy.”
Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments (1925)
I. Thema scherzoso con variazioni
II. Adagio
III. Rondo ritmico con introduzione
Daniel Barenboim Conductor
Boulez Ensemble
Video Director
Henning Kasten
Camera
Tobias Albrecht
Maik Behres
Michael Boomers
Boris Fromageot
Winifried Herrmann
Stefan Kochinke
Martin Roth
Erik Thon
Annett Zimmermann
Crane operators
Matthias Wahle
Peter Zoephel
Audio Producer
Friedermann Engelbrecht
Audio Engineers
Julian Schwenker
Sebastian Nattkemper
Audio Postproduction
Thomas Bössl
Video Technicians
Piet Grotelüschen
Arno Scholwin
Felix Schlag
Lighting Designer
Mario Klapper
Lighting Technicians
René Gamsa
Jörn Scholz
Fin Ole Langer
Ulf Keilhofer
Video Operator
Mark C. Rump
Graphics Operator
Kilian Hirt
Video Editors
Anna Druggemeester
Uli Peschke
Assistant Stage Director
Martin Feil
Unit Manager
Ines Kadgien
Commissioning Editors Arte
Christian von Behr
Dorothea Diekmann
Sabine Muller
Executive Producer Salve TV
Karl-Martin Lötsch
UNITEL
Post production Manager
Roger Voß
Production Manager
Franziska Pascher
Producer
Magdalena Herbst
A co-production of UNITEL and RBB in cooperation with ARTE and Pierre Boulez Saal.
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