Alban Berg

Featuring: Lasalle Quartet

condition (record/cover): NM / NM Insert included. | The LaSalle Quartet recordings of Alban Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3 and Lyric Suite—originally part of their landmark Deutsche Grammophon set of the Second Viennese School—are regarded as foundational pillars of the 20th-century chamber music discography. Alban Berg’s two major chamber works, the String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910) and the Lyric Suite (1926), are cornerstones of 20th-century music, famously bridging the gap between Romantic emotionalism and the rigorous structuralism of the Second Viennese School. String Quartet, Op. 3: Written as a "graduation exercise" under Schoenberg, this two-movement work is a dense foray into non-tonal regions while maintaining a high level of expressive, almost "Cubist" intensity. Lyric Suite: A six-movement masterpiece that alternates between increasingly fast odd-numbered movements and increasingly slow, intense even-numbered ones. It is famously known as a "secret diary" encoded with cryptograms of Berg's love for Hanna Fuchs-Robettin.