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Composer
Alban Berg, Erwin Schulhoff, Anton Webern
Artist
Leonkoro Quartet
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Alpha
Released
Mar 20, 2026
Catalog #
ALPHA1196
UPC
3701624511961

About

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, Jurgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize, first prize at the Bordeaux Competition - joins Alpha Classics for several recordings. First stop: Vienna and it's 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 Dvorak 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.

Critic reviews

  • “The Leonkoro Quartet presents it not as a forbidding modernist monument, but as living chamber music.”

    Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Quarterly critic’s choice, April 2026

  • “[The Leonkoro Quartet] offers intensely crafted interpretations of all four works. In doing so, the musicians take a stance that, despite the emotionally charged music, always chooses a clearly structured approach.”

    Pizzicato, Supersonic, February 2026

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  • “[The Leonkoro Quartet’s] reading of Webern’s Five Pieces here…bears comparison with the finest on record.”

    Gramophone, Editor’s choice, February 2026

  • “The young quartet give a fiercely alert account of Berg, Webern and Schulhoff – beautifully capturing Vienna’s pre-war musical fault lines.”

    The Guardian, 5 stars, January 2026

  • “[The Leonkoro Quartet] offers intensely crafted interpretations of all four works. In doing so, the musicians take a stance that, despite the emotionally charged music, always chooses a clearly structured approach.”

    MusicWeb International, Recommended, April 2026

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegretto gioviale 03:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegretto gioviale
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  2. 2 II. Andante amoroso 05:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante amoroso
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  3. 3 III. Allegro misterioso 03:10
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro misterioso
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Adagio appassionato 05:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Adagio appassionato
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  5. 5 V. Presto delirando 04:32
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Presto delirando
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  6. 6 VI. Largo desolato 06:06
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Largo desolato
    Duration
    06:06
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  7. 7 No. 1. Alla Valse Viennese 01:45
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Alla Valse Viennese
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Erwin Schulhoff
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  8. 8 No. 2. Alla Serenata 03:17
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Alla Serenata
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Erwin Schulhoff
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  9. 9 No. 3. Alla Czeca 01:30
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. Alla Czeca
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Erwin Schulhoff
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  10. 10 No. 4. Alla Tango Milonga 04:51
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. Alla Tango Milonga
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Erwin Schulhoff
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  11. 11 No. 5. Alla Tarantella 02:17
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 5. Alla Tarantella
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Erwin Schulhoff
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  12. 12 I. Heftig bewegt 02:31
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Heftig bewegt
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Anton Webern
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  13. 13 II. Sehr langsam 02:28
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Sehr langsam
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Anton Webern
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  14. 14 III. Sehr bewegt 00:42
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Sehr bewegt
    Duration
    00:42
    Composer
    Anton Webern
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  15. 15 IV. Sehr langsam 01:42
    Track
    15
    Title
    IV. Sehr langsam
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Anton Webern
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  16. 16 V. In zarter Bewegung 03:34
    Track
    16
    Title
    V. In zarter Bewegung
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Anton Webern
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet
  17. 17 Langsamer Satz 09:25
    Track
    17
    Title
    Langsamer Satz
    Duration
    09:25
    Composer
    Anton Webern
    Ensemble
    Leonkoro Quartet