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Berg: Violin Concerto
Alban Berg may be best known as one of the proponents, alongside Anton von
Webern and their teacher Arnold Schoenberg, of the Second Viennese School – a
musical movement that travelled from late-Romantic tonality into a chromatic, often
atonal Expressionism. Some of this music can seem thorny and inaccessible.
The sublime Violin Concerto, however, is Berg at his most emotional, and it is a quite
beautiful work – one of the most unashamedly romantic and expressive such pieces
from the 2oth century.
