Berg’s Violin Concerto is an extraordinarily lyrical work of intense emotional power. It was written as a Requiem for the eighteen-year-old daughter of Alma Mahler-Werfel just months before the composer’s own death and is dedicated ‘to the memory of an angel’. The Lyric Suite was originally written for string quartet and includes a quotation from the Lyric Symphony of Alexander von Zemlinsky, to whom the original is dedicated. After a successful première, three movements were later arranged for string orchestra. Three Orchestral Pieces are a thematically linked sequence of prelude, dance movement and funeral march. Präludium begins and ends in the quiet noise of percussion, while the other two movements layer dance rhythms over large-scale orchestral structures.