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It seems entirely logical to offer these three seminal New Viennese School works together on a single disc, in this case running to some 77
These performances, from a 1970’s 4-LP set of Second Viennese School composers, are some of Herbert von Karajan’s finest. Here we find the conductor’s particular
The Kiev Camerata offers a fulsome rendition of Schoenberg’s Verklate Nacht in its “first” string orchestra version. This spare arrangement plays up the music’s sinewy
Taking its name from an early 20th-century cultural journal from Budapest (and not the cellist Yo-Yo), the Swedish ensemble Ma tackles Schoenberg with the aid
The Camerata Transsylvanica’s impassioned effort in Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht is compromised by generally poor engineering, thus rendering this disc somewhat irrelevant in a field that
Jacob’s Ladder, Schoenberg’s incomplete, quasi-oratorio, dramatizes the Biblical tale in the composer’s most astringent, dyspeptic style. Schoenberg’s solo writing is intense and declamatory (especially that
Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances, founded in 1918 to offer weekly new-music concerts to a knowledgeable audience, provides the launching point for this disc.
This is the second double-CD set from Philips Duo devoted to great piano concertos of the 20th century. The recordings are by various artists from
Bad recordings of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder are hard to come by because the composer made it so easy to produce good ones. Schoenberg meticulously wrote down
Erich Leinsdorf’s Wagner arrangements take us through the whole of the Ring cycle in just 48 minutes (well, almost, as he leaves out Rheingold). By
