Alban Berg - Violin Concerto "To The Memory of an Angel" (1935) Violin - Louis Krasner BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor - Anton Webern Recorded live on May 1, 1936 at a private concert Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 (the score is dated 11 August 1935). It is probably Berg's best-known and most frequently performed instrumental piece, which was a commission from Louis Krasner, and it became the last work that he completed. The title "To The Memory of An Angel" is a dedication to the death of Manon Gropius (daughter of his close friend Alma Mahler), and Berg himself died on Christmas Eve of 1935 due to an infection from a bug bite on his back that occured the previous month. Krasner performed the solo part in the premiere at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona on 19 April 1936, after the composer's death, conducted by Hermann Scherchen. (Scherchen only had 24 hours notice before the premiere, as Anton Webern pulled out last minute, most likely due to the grief caused by his friends recent death. This is quite a special recording, as it is one of the first ever performances of this work (just 3 weeks after the premiere), and is the earliest recording. While the rendition may not be to everyones taste, it has a certain charm to it, seeing as it is conducted by Anton Webern, Berg's colleague in the Second Viennese School and very close friend, and Krasner is the one who commisioned the work. Unfortunately, the concert has deteriorated badly with age, although a restoration was done in 2019, which is what is heard here. Some things to listen out for is the unexpected lyricism of the first movement (the tone row is built mostly in thirds, with the final 4 notes being ascending whole tones, which are the first four notes of Bach's chorale 'Es ist Genug' (It is enough) [G, Bb, D, F#, A, C, E, G#, B, C#, Eb, F]; overall, this makes for far less dissonant dodecaphony than you would usually expect from such a work), the fantastic opening of the second movement, which is played here much faster than is commonly done today, making it seem much 'scarier' in a way, and lastly, something which I noticed is a strange effect, most likely caused by the audio deterioration and subsequent editing, at 26:32, it is almost as if there are voices in the orchestra, when in fact it is just the sounds of the solo violin and the cello section! Overall, this is one of my favourite violin concertos, and I really hope you enjoy this wonderful recording of it! I: Andante - Allegretto - 0:00 II: Allegro -​ Adagio - 13:27 Final Image: Berg and Webern together in 1923 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Berg) Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs​ ​ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ryanp ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL29eLsbz2k

Franz Liszt - Trois Odes Funèbres, for orchestra (1860-66) Rudfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Conductor - Karl Anton Rickenbacher Liszt’s Trois Odes funèbres were composed between 1860 and 1866, and exist in a variety of versions: for orchestra, for piano solo and for piano duet. There is also a chorus in the first Ode and the possibility of a narrator in the first and second. The first is also an organ piece, with the title Trauerode, and La notte also exists for violin and piano. The third of the Odes is also entitled ‘Epilogue to the Symphonic Poem: Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo’, and in its orchestral version it enjoyed a certain vogue towards the end of the nineteenth century, especially when conducted by its dedicatee Leopold Damrosch. Although it is quite clear from the original manuscripts that Liszt intended these works to be performed as a cycle, they have never been published together and have rarely been performed as he wished. Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs PATREON - Pay a small monthly fee and gain access to my online score library, full of rare scores that I have used in videos - https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower PAYPAL - Donations of any amount welcome! - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/officialryan3?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxtwGWeaKLg

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor WoO 59 'Für Elise' Performed by Ivo Pogorelich The score was not published until 1867, forty years after the composer's death in 1827. Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs​ ​ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L-pyimeJvo

Pierre Boulez - Messagesquisss, version for solo viola and 6 violas (1978/2000) Messagesquisse is a work for solo cello and six cellos, on the name of Paul Sacher, by the French composer Pierre Boulez , composed in 1976 - 1977. Messagesquisse was commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovitch for the seventieth birthday of Paul Sacher . The piece is dedicated to the Swiss conductor. Pierre Boulez explained the title: “With this, I wanted to offer a testimony of my friendship with Paul Sacher: the work contains messages which are addressed to him personally and are symbolically coded, as in a sketch 1." Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs PATREON - Pay a small monthly fee and gain access to my online score library, full of rare scores that I have used in videos - https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower PAYPAL - Donations of any amount welcome! - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/officialryan3?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpoVYqz5zoQ