Berg: Violin Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks)

Rating:
Summary: An outstanding guide to a complex piece of music.
Review: This book covers almost everything you could want to know about this concerto, which is difficult but full of powerful emotion. It explains the commission, the performance history, the program, and the tonality. I wish the book had more short musical examples in the program section, but that is a small caveat. The discussion of tonality is much clearer than in the other works I have read on this concerto.