
Robert Craft’s extremely slow tempos for Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder (adding more than 14 minutes to Ozawa’s total time) make for a Part I that seems to
The fourth release in Robert Craft’s fine Stravinsky series for Koch features a trio of works that reflect some of the composer’s major preoccupations of
Volume 7 of Robert Craft’s ongoing Schoenberg cycle makes an excellent introduction to the composer’s almost schizophrenically wide-ranging body of work. For example, there’s his
Robert Craft knows Stravinsky’s mature music like no one else. Where his performances of the early ballets sometimes suffer from a lack of sheer physicality,
Robert Craft maintains a clear rhythmic pulse in Pelleas und Melisande, helping to clarify the contrapuntal lines, which is a great boon in this hopelessly
Robert Craft’s successful survey of Schoenberg’s orchestral and chamber works continues with this important disc, which couples Schoenberg’s (recently) popular orchestration of the Brahms G
No composer in history was more constitutionally incapable of repeating himself than Arnold Schoenberg. If the theory of 12-tone composition states that no single note
Volume Three of Robert Craft’s Stravinsky series for Koch duplicates repertoire on his similar series for MusicMasters–this latter effort appearing to have ended somewhat short