{"id":21,"date":"2006-02-14T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T17:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:39:05","slug":"inside-alban-bergs-violin-concerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/14\/inside-alban-bergs-violin-concerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Alban Berg&#8217;s Violin Concerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who made it to the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s last subscription series this past weekend, you were treated to wonderful, expressive performances of Alban Berg&#8217;s great <em>Violin Concerto<\/em>.  No doubt, many of you were intrigued by the snippets of information given both in Maestro Kalmar&#8217;s introductory talks and the program notes, so here are some excellent resources for exploring this extraordinary concerto in-depth:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/Violin_Concerto_(Berg)\">Wikipedia: Berg Violin Concerto<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/violin-concerto-berg\">Answers.com: Berg Violin Concerto<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/cdmbergvlncto.ram\">BBC: Audio commentary and analysis of Berg&#8217;s Violin Concerto<\/a><br \/>\n(requires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/real%5Fplayer4\">Real Audio<\/a> player)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who made it to the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s last subscription series this past weekend, you were treated to wonderful, expressive performances of Alban Berg&#8217;s great Violin Concerto. No doubt, many of you were intrigued by the snippets of information given both in Maestro Kalmar&#8217;s introductory talks and the program notes, so here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[55,3666,93,62,3656,3659],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-orchestra","tag-oregon","tag-soloists","tag-symphony","tag-the-orchestra-world","tag-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3264,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/15\/heat-up-cool-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"heat up, cool down","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the time of year where a curious shift happens: the classical music season heats up, while the weather outside cools down. \u00a0This post in just going to be a hodge-podge of random thoughts, truly full of daily observations, rather than what is usually posted here (not sure what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;recordings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"recordings","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/recordings-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ir?t=dailyobservat-20&l=ur2&o=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3757,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/11\/a-forgotten-violin-concerto\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":1},"title":"a forgotten violin concerto","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"At the end of this season the Oregon Symphony will welcome Finnish violinist Elina V\u00e4h\u00e4l\u00e4 (above) to play Benjamin Britten's great Violin Concerto.\u00a0 I've really fallen in love with this concerto, in no small part due to the web broadcast of the Berlin Philharmonic with violinist Janine Jansen. 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