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the revolution that Schoenberg (1874-1951) introduced in 20th-century
music through his explorations of atonality, he was firmly grounded
in a tradition embracing Wagner, Brahms, and Mahler. Schoenberg's
early works are saturated with postromantic richness, while the
visionary nature of his mature masterpieces are landmarks in the
century's musical evolution. |
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Korngold:
Sextet; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht / Raphael
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Composer:
Erich
Wolfgang Korngold, Arnold
Schoenberg
Performer: Sally
Beamish, Andrea
Hess, et al.
Ensemble: Raphael
Ensemble
Hyperion (UK) - #66425 / November 8, 1990
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| The playing of The Raphael Ensemble is wonderfully
polished, and the account these young musicians deliver has
lots of voltage behind it. The opening is extremely atmospheric--hauntingly
stark and subdued--but the climactic pages that come later
in the piece have rarely been as intensely presented. Hyperion's
1990 recording is outstanding, and the coupling, Korngold's
excellent D-major sextet, receives a marvelous performance
from the group that rediscovered it. --Ted Libbey |
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Schoenberg:
Pierrot Lunaire, etc / Boulez, Schäfer, et al
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Composer:
Arnold
Schoenberg
Conductor: Pierre
Boulez
Performer: Florent
Boffard, Sophie
Cherrier, et al.
Ensemble: Ensemble
InterContemporain
Uni/Deutsche Grammophon - #457630 / October 20, 1998
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Arnold Schoenberg claimed he had never set out to be a revolutionary.
Yet the song cycle he wrote in 1912 based on proto- expressionist
poems and featuring a grotesque harlequin figure, Pierrot
Lunaire, still reverberates with its haunting, startling
originality. This work introduced the world to a hitherto
unthought-of musical landscape; to call it innovative would
be an absurd understatement. What's particularly exciting
about the undertaking here (Boulez's third recorded take on
this music)...Read
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Schoenberg:
Moses und Aron / Boulez, Royal Concertgebouw |
Composer:
Arnold
Schoenberg
Conductor: Pierre
Boulez
Performer: Michael
Devlin, Gabriele
Fontana, et al.
Ensemble: Netherlands
Opera Chorus, Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Uni/Deutsche Grammophon - #49174 / October 15, 1996
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In every respect, this Netherlands Opera production of Schoenberg's
problematic yet most personal stage work outclasses Pierre
Boulez's 1974 BBC recording on Sony. The conductor elicits
staggeringly precise yet supple and flexible playing from
the Concertgebouw, quite different from the stentorian sheen
of Sir Georg Solti/Chicago, even though the all-important
chorus is heard to better advantage in the latter. As Moses,
David Pittman-Jennings's eloquent Sprechtstimme emphasizes
the intensity of...Read
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Schoenberg:
The Piano Music / Maurizio Pollini |
Composer:
Arnold
Schoenberg
Performer: Maurizio
Pollini
Uni/Deutsche Grammophon - #23249 / June 13, 1988
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The first great pianist to record all of Schoenberg's piano
music was Glenn
Gould, and if you grew up with Gould's interpretations,
then you're in for a shock. In the first place, Pollini actually
plays what Schoenberg wrote--Gould freely altered the text
in ways that would have driven the composer insane. And then
there's the humming--yes, believe it or not, Gould did manage
to sing along as he played. Pollini's quieter, less vocal
approach conveys much more of what Schoenberg actually wrote,...Read
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Schoenberg:
Gurrelieder / Ozawa, Norman, Troyanos, et al |
Composer:
Arnold
Schoenberg
Conductor: Seiji
Ozawa, Eliahu
Inbal
Performer: David
Arnold, Werner
Klemperer, et al.
Ensemble: Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood
Festival Chorus, et al.
Uni/Philips - #464040 / January 11, 2000
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This is the biggest piece of music that ever gets performed
with any regularity. Anyone who avoids Schönberg
because his name is synonymous with that nasty, atonal stuff
need have no fear. This is a ripely romantic score with big
tunes and cinematic orchestration. The story is simple. King
Waldemar of Gurre is fooling around with Tove. The queen finds
out and has her poisoned. The king curses God, and is condemned
to ride on a ghostly hunt throughout all eternity, until the
arrival of dawn...Read
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| works
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- A
Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
- Am
Strande
- Ballads
(2), Op. 12
- Ballads
(2), Op. 12: no 1, Jane Grey
- Ballads
(2), Op. 12: no 2, Der verlorene Haufen
- Book
of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15
- Brettl-Lieder
- Cabaret
Songs
- Cabaret
Songs: Die genügsame Liebhaber
- Cabaret
Songs: Einfältiges Lied
- Cabaret
Songs: Galathea
- Cabaret
Songs: Gigerlette
- Cabaret
Songs: Jedem das Seine
- Cabaret
Songs: Mahnung
- Cabaret
Songs: Nachtwandler
- Cabaret
Songs: Seit ich so viele Weiber sah "Aus dem Spiegel von Arcadia"
- Canons
(2) for Chorus
- Cello
Concerto in D major after Harpsichord Concerto in D by Monn
- Chamber
Symphony no 1 in E major, Op. 9
- Chamber
Symphony no 2, Op. 38
- Concerto
for Piano, Op. 42
- Concerto
for String Quartet after Handel's Op. 6 no 7
- Concerto
for Violin, Op. 36
- De
profundis, Op. 50b
- Deinem
Blick mich zu bequemen
- Die
Jakobsleiter
- Die
glückliche Hand, Op. 18
- Dreimal
tausend Jahre, Op. 50a
- Drüben
geht die Sonne scheiden
- Ein
Stelldichein
- Erwartung,
Op. 17
- Fantasy
for Violin and Piano, Op. 47
- Folksong
Arrangements (4)
- Folksongs
(3) for Chorus, Op. 49
- Folksongs
(3) for Chorus, Op. 49: Der Mai tritt ein mit...
- Friede
auf Erden, Op. 13
- Gedenken
"Es steht sein Bild noch immer da"
- German
Folksongs (3) for Chorus
- Gurrelieder
- Gurrelieder:
Fanfare
- Gurrelieder:
Lied der Waldtaube
- Gurrelieder:
Prelude
- Herzegewächse,
Op. 20
- Incidental
Music to a Motion Picture Scene, Op. 34
- Klavierstück
[fragment]
- Kol
nidre, Op. 39
- La
brigade de fer
- Little
Pieces (6) for Piano, Op. 19
- Little
Pieces (6) for Piano, Op. 19: Leicht, zart
- Modern
Psalm, Op. 50c
- Moses
und Aron
- Moses
und Aron: Der Tanz um das goldene Kalb
- Musique
de Noël
- Ode
to Napoleon, Op. 41
- Orchestral
Songs (4), Op. 22
- Orchestral
Songs (6) for Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 8
- Pelleas
und Melisande, Op. 5
- Piece
for Piano, Op. 33a
- Piece
for Piano, Op. 33b
- Pieces
(3) for Chamber Orchestra
- Pieces
(3) for Piano
- Pieces
(3) for Piano, Op. 11
- Pieces
(3) for Piano, Op. 11: no 2
- Pieces
(4) for Chorus, Op. 27
- Pieces
(5) for Orchestra, Op. 16
- Pieces
(5) for Orchestra, Op. 16: no 4, Peripetie - Sehr rasch
- Pieces
(5) for Piano, Op. 23
- Pieces
(5) for Piano, Op. 23: no 5, Waltz
- Pieces
(6) for Mens Chorus, Op. 35
- Pieces
(6) for Piano 4 hands
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Colombine
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Der Dandy
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Der kranke Mond
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Eine blasse Wäscherin
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Excerpt(s)
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Madonna
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Mondestrunken
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Valse de Chopin
- Quartet
for Strings in D major
- Quartet
for Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 7
- Quartet
for Strings no 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10
- Quartet
for Strings no 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10: 3rd movement, Langsam
- Quartet
for Strings no 3, Op. 30
- Quartet
for Strings no 3, Op. 30: 3rd mvt, Intermezzo
- Quartet
for Strings no 4, Op. 37
- Quintet
for Winds, Op. 26
- Satires
(3) for Chorus, Op. 28
- Scherzo
for String Quartet in F in F major
- Serenade,
Op. 24
- Sonata
for Organ [Fragment]
- Songs
(2), Op. 1
- Songs
(2), Op. 14
- Songs
(2), Op. 14: no 1, Ich darf nicht dankend
- Songs
(3), Op. 48
- Songs
(3), Op. 48: no 1, Sommermüd
- Songs
(3), Op. 48: no 2, Tot
- Songs
(4), Op. 2
- Songs
(4), Op. 2: no 1, Erwartung
- Songs
(4), Op. 2: no 2, Schenk' mir deinen goldenen Kamm
- Songs
(4), Op. 2: no 3, Erhebung
- Songs
(4), Op. 2: no 4, Waldsonne
- Songs
(6), Op. 3
- Songs
(6), Op. 3: no 1, Wie Georg von Frunsberg von sich...
- Songs
(6), Op. 3: no 2, Die Aufgeregten
- Songs
(6), Op. 3: no 3, Warnung
- Songs
(6), Op. 3: no 5, Geübtes Herz
- Songs
(8), Op. 6
- Songs
(8), Op. 6: no 1, Traumleben
- Songs
(8), Op. 6: no 4, Verlassen
- Songs
(8), Op. 6: no 8, Der Wanderer
- Spiegel
von Arcadia: Lied
- Suite
for Piano, Op. 25
- Suite
for Piano, Op. 25: Excerpt(s)
- Suite
for Piano, Op. 25: Gigue
- Suite
for String Orchestrain G in G major
- Suite,
Op. 29
- Theme
and Variations for Band, Op. 43a
- Theme
and Variations for Orchestra, Op. 43b
- Trio
for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 45
- Variations
for Orchestra, Op. 31
- Variations
on a Recitative for Organ, Op 40
- Verklärte
Nacht, Op. 4
- Verklärte
Nacht, Op. 4: Excerpt(s)
- Von
heute auf morgen, Op. 32
- Weihnachtsmusik
- Der
eiserne Brigade
- Gurrelieder:
Excerpt(s)
- Moses
und Aron: Eurem Vorbild, Gö+E64tter "Erotische Orgie"
- Mädchenfrühling
- Mädchenlied
- Mädel,
lass das Stricken (Nicht doch!)
- Pieces
(5) for Pno, Op 23: Excerpt(s)
- Pierrot
Lunaire, Op. 21: Die Nacht
- Waldesnacht,
du wunderkühle
Complete
List of Works and Recordings
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| resources |
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 Arnold
Schoenberg - Complete List of All Internet Sites
Legacy
of Arnold Schoenberg - Works list, paintings, news, designs,
videos and films, publishers, writings, teaching, genealogy,
bibliography, correspondence, links.
Arnold
Schoenberg Legacy - Links.
Arnold
Schoenberg - the American Works - Essay, work list, articles,
links.
Arnold
Schoenberg and twelve-tone (twelve-note) music - Essay
by Michael Tanner. (from ClassicCD)
Austria
Composer Arnold Schšnberg - Life in context of works,
bibliography.
Arnold
Schšnberg Center Privatstiftung - Biography,index of work
and parts of the archives of the Center.
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