LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW: This week in Live at the Concertgebouw: Alban Berg’s
Violin Concerto, performed by Julia Fischer (photo) and the Rotterdam Philharmonic led by Ingo Metzmacher. The piece stemmed from a commission from the violinist Louis Krasner. When he first received the commission, Berg was working on his opera Lulu and he did not begin work on the concerto for some months. The event that spurred him into writing was the death by polio of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler(once Gustav Mahler’s wife) and Walter Gropius. Berg set Lulu to one side to write the concerto, which he dedicated "To the memory of an angel…".

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Ingo Metzmacher, conductor
Julia Fischer, violin

Gustav Mahler: Blumine
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
 

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