Tag: Alban Berg

• Alban Berg – Lulu (1937)

  Apr 8

  She seduces, she kills, she winds up a prostitute and gets murdered by Jack the Ripper. Greed-filled, lusty Lulu is the 20th century’s greatest opera. I was 14 and in… more ›

• Anton Webern conducts Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto (“To the Memory of an Angel”)

  Dec 20

  Alban Berg‘s Violin Concerto was written in 1935 (the score is dated August 11, 1935). It is probably Berg’s best-known and most frequently performed instrumental piece. The piece stemmed from… more ›

• Anne-Sophie Mutter in United Arab Emirates

  Feb 14

  “Excuse my English,” Anne-Sophie Mutter says with a laugh. “I know it’s rather flowery, but that’s as good as it gets.” As it turns out she speaks it better than… more ›