Out of Vienna

1. Berg: Lyric Suite: I. Allegretto gioviale (3:05)
2. Berg: Lyric Suite: II. Andante amoroso (5:57)
3. Berg: Lyric Suite: III. Allegro misterioso – Trio estatico (3:10)
4. Berg: Lyric Suite: IV. Adagio appassionato (5:36)
5. Berg: Lyric Suite: V. Presto delirando – Tenebroso (4:33)
6. Berg: Lyric Suite: VI. Largo desolato (6:13)
7. Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet, WV 68: No. 1, Alla Valse viennese (1:46)
8. Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet, WV 68: No. 2, Alla Serenata (3:17)
9. Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet, WV 68: No. 3, Alla Czeca (1:30)
10. Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet, WV 68: No. 4, Alla Tango milonga (4:51)
11. Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet, WV 68: No. 5, Alla Tarantella (2:24)
12. Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5: I. Heftig bewegt (2:32)
13. Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5: II. Sehr langsam (2:29)
14. Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5: III. Sehr bewegt (0:43)
15. Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5: IV. Sehr langsam (1:42)
16. Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5: V. In zarter Bewegung (3:39)
17. Webern: Langsamer Satz (9:26)

The Leonkoro Quartet, founded in 2019 and winner of multiple prestigious awards in 2022 – nine prizes at the Wigmore Hall International Competition, including first prize, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize, first prize at the Bordeaux Competition – joins Alpha Classics for several recordings. First stop: Vienna and its influence on the musical landscape of the early 20th century. Berg completed his Suite lyrique on 5 October 1926: combining theatricality and rigorous architecture, free atonality and dodecaphonism, this suite expresses the composer’s passionate love for Hanna Fuchs at that time. Erwin Schulhoff, born in Prague in 1894, was discovered by Dvořák and studied in Vienna from the age of 12; he dedicated his Five Pieces to Darius Milhaud, as he also studied in Paris with Debussy around 1913, ultimately dying in a prison camp in Bavaria in 1942. In his Opus 5, described by Glenn Gould as ‘sensual’ expressionism, Webern mourns the death of his mother on 7 September 1906.