Chris Bonds ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>It is a modern masterpiece, (IMO).  Perlman and Mutter have recorded it.
>There is also a recording with Louis Krasner and the BBC Sym that is of
>great historical importance, being the 2nd performance ever of the work.
>Krasner as you may know was the dedicatee of the work (although the
>inspiration for it was the death of Manon Gropius).

And commissioner, IIRC.  But you omit one of the most important aspects
of this recording - it is conducted by Anton Webern, who was scheduled to
conduct the premiere in Barcelona, but who was so affected by Berg's death
that he withdrew at < 24 hours notice and the performance was taken over by
Hermann Scherchen.

Deryk Barker
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