Alban Berg
Lyric Suite for string quartet (1925-1926)
Allegretto gioviale 00:00
Andante amoroso 03:09
Allegro misterioso – Trio estatico 09:26
Adagio appassionato 12:43
Presto delirando – Tenebroso 19:05
Largo desolato 24:00
Juilliard String Quartet
Robert Mann, violin
Earl Carlyss, violin
Samuel Rhodes, viola
Claus Adam, cello
Live recording: Ascona, August 24, 1970
Painting: Amedeo Modigliani, The Red Woman, 1915, Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna
The Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926 using methods derived from Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique. […] As Berg’s friend and fellow Schoenberg pupil Erwin Stein wrote in the preface to the score, “The work (Ist and VIth part, the main part of the IIIrd and the middle section of the Vth) has been mostly written strictly in accordance with Schoenberg’s technique of the ‘Composition with 12 inwardly related tones.’ A set of 12 different tones gives the rough material of the composition, and the portions which have been treated more freely still adhere more or less to the technique” […] Theodor W. Adorno called the quartet “a latent opera”.
Eztract from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_Suite_%28Berg%29