Arnold Schoenberg

(1874-1951)

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Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht

Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht


Schoenberg:

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9

Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38b

5 orchestral pieces, Op. 16

Erwartung, Op. 17

Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31


Phyllis Bryn-Julson

Artemis Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate & Sir Simon Rattle

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Schoenberg - Complete String Quartets

Schoenberg - Complete String Quartets

Recorded 1950-1952


Berg:

Lyric Suite - String Quartet (1926)

String Quartet, Op. 3

Schoenberg:

String Quartet 1-4 (Complete)

Uta Graf (soprano) String Quartet No. 2

Webern:

Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909)


Juilliard String Quartet

Founded by the composer Robert Mann following the inspiration of William Schuman, the Juilliard Quartet, made up entirely of professors from the renowned New York school, was to take centre stage in the history of 20th century musical creativity.The first concert was given on 10th December 1946 before an audience that included Yehudi Menuhin and Zoltán Kodály.The level of excellence and insatiable curiosity of the group soon became something of a legend.The first American versions of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 and Ainsi la Nuit by Henri Dutilleux are also owed to the Juilliard Quartet, as well as world premières of over 60 other American composers including Elliott Carter. In 1950, the Juilliard Quartet performed Schoenberg's String Quartets in the presence of the composer himself. "Our interpretation was wilder than Schoenberg had expected", explained Mann "and when we played the first quartet for him he declared that it was a way of interpreting it that he had not imagined.We were stunned. Schoenberg burst out laughing and added: 'But play it that way, it's good!'".

“The performances date from 1950 to 1952, so the performers are the original Juilliard members. The recorded sound is not of the most refined, but the febrile passion and intelligence of the playing carry all before them. Schoenberg’s amazing, 42-minute, single-span Quartet No 1 is launched with a fury, and this opening theme is rarely absent from the texture; No 2 brings the still staggering textural surprise of a soprano (the limpid Uta Graf) in two of the movements; No 4 has a bizarre 12-tone catchiness.” Sunday Times, 25th May 2008 ***

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Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 36, etc.
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Schoenberg:

Violin Concerto, Op. 36

Sibelius:

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47


Hilary Hahn (violin)

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Where Heifetz warily trod, Hahn strides to a triumphant performance ... The Schoenberg performance is, as I say, magnificent. ” Gramophone Magazine, June 2008

“The Schoenberg is simply astonishing. Hahn and Esa-Pekka Salonen shows how much beauty and brilliance there is in this work.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 *****

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Measha Brueggergosman - Surprise

Measha Brueggergosman - Surprise

Cabaret Songs


Bolcom:

Surprise!

The Actor

Song of Black Max

Amor

Toothbrush time

The total stranger in the garden

George

Satie:

La diva de l'empire

Tendrement

L'omnibus automobile

Daphénéo

Je te veux

Schoenberg:

Gigerlette

Jedem das Seine Mahnung

Galathea

Nachwandler Einfältiges Lied

Der genügsame Lieb-haber

Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arcadien


Measha Brueggergosman (soprano), William Bolcom (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson

A triumphant DG debut recital for the Yellow Label’s new signing. Measha Brueggergosman (remember that name – no easy feat, granted) is expressive and at times deliciously wicked. The voice isn’t entirely even yet, but it’s already a gorgeous, fascinating sound. - Gramophone Magazine

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - April 2008

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Volume 44 of the Glenn Gould Complete Jacket Collection

Volume 44 of the Glenn Gould Complete Jacket Collection

Schoenberg: Songs for Voice and Piano


Schoenberg:

6 Lieder, Op. 3

Two Ballades, Op. 12

3 Lieder, Op. 48

2 Lieder, Op. 14

2 Lieder, Op. post

6 Lieder, Op. 6


Glenn Gould (piano), Helen Vanni, Cornelis Opthof & Donald Cramm

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Evocation

Evocation


Chausson:

Hébé, Op. 2, No. 6

Le Charme, Op. 2 No. 2 (Silvestre)

Quatre Mélodies Op. 13: 2. Sérénade (Jean Lahor)

Le Colibri, Op. 2 No. 7 (de Lisle)

Le temps des lilas

Debussy:

Nuit d'étoiles

Koechlin:

Sept Chansons pour Gladys, Op. 151

Schoenberg:

4 Lieder Op. 2

Strauss, R:

Mädchenblumen, Op. 22

Zemlinsky:

Liebe und Frühling

Das Rosenband

Frühlingslied

Wandl’ich im wald des Abends

Entführung

Sommer, Op. 27


Sandrine Piau (soprano)

'As the cover art might suggest, Sandrine Piau’s new album is dedicated to exploring the different sides of womanhood. I’m not sure I can claim to know how close she gets, but this programme – which includes songs by composers as disparate as Debussy, Richard Strauss and Zemlinsky – contains some of the most exquisite singing I have heard from this wonderful soprano.' - James Inverne, Gramophone Magazine

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - February 2008

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Schoenberg - Choral Works

Schoenberg - Choral Works


Schoenberg:

6 Lieder for soprano and orchestra, Op. 8

Friede auf Erden, Op. 13

Verbundenheit, Op. 35 No. 6, for male choir

Ei, du Lutte

Kol Nidre, for Rabbi-Narrator, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra

Moses und Aron

Excerpts from ‘The Golden Calf and The Altar’ (Act II, Scene 3)


Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) & David Wilson-Johnson (rabbi-narrator)

Philharmonia Orchestra & Simon Joly Chorale, Robert Craft

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Piano Music


Bach, J S:

Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903

Brahms:

Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116 No. 2

Capriccio, Allegro passionato in G minor, Op. 116 No. 3

Cage:

Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (No. 12)

Janacek:

Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor 'From the Street' (The Presentiment)

Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor 'From the Street' (The Death)

Keren:

Fantaisie, mais 2 Fantastrophes, First Fantastrophe 2007

(world premiere recording)

Fantaisie, mais 2 Fantastrophes, Fantaisie

Fantaisie, mais 2 Fantastrophes, Second Fantastrophe

Ligeti:

Musica Ricercata for piano (excerpts)

Schoenberg:

6 kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19


David Greilsammer (piano)

“The pianism is superb” Michael Church, The Independent

“However it may look on paper, in practice it works incredibly well, such is Greilsammer’s magnetic ability to find mutual correspondences and attractions between opposite poles” Julian Haylock, International Piano

“In this enjoyable piano montage, 16 items have been arranged symmetrically around Mozart’s Fantasy in C minor……it’s as though the alienation effect of piano “preparation” has been applied to a whole disc.” Sunday Times Contemporary Composers (No. 3) Albums of the Year

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Historic Russian Archives - Gidon Kremer

Historic Russian Archives - Gidon Kremer

All recordings are live, made between 1970 and 1993


Bach, J S:

Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne

Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006

Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043

Oleg Kagan, violin I

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, David Oistrakh

Bartók:

Tempo di ciacona, from sonata for solo violin

Beethoven:

Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Variations in F major on Mozart's "Se vuol'ballare"

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

6 German Dances, WoO 42

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Berio:

Duet for violins "Leonardo" (dedicated to Leonardo Pinzauti)

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II

Duet for violins "Annie" (dedicated to Annie Neuberger)

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II

Duet for violins "Aldo" (dedicated to Aldo Bennici)

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II

Biber:

Ciacona from mystery sonata No. 4 in D minor "The Presentation"

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Boccherini:

Minuet from String Quintet in E, Op. 13 No. 5

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Chausson:

Poème for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 25

Maria Bondarenko, piano

Dinicu:

Hora Staccato

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Borzo/Bihari: Csardas in A minor

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Ernst:

Variations on "The Last Rose of Summer"

Der Erlkönig - Grand Caprice Op. 26

Karayev:

Violin Concerto

USSR State TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kozhukhar

Kupkovic:

Souvenir

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Lourié:

Concerto da Camera

German Chamber Philharmonic Society

Martinov:

Come In!

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II, Mikhael Muntyan, celesta

Moscow Philharmonic Society Soloists, Yuri Bashmet

Mendelssohn:

Concerto in D minor for violin and strings (second version)

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet

Mozart:

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K211

German Chamber Philharmonic Society

Concertone in C for 2 Violins and Orchestra, K190

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II

Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Saulius Sondetskis

Violin Sonata No. 31 in C major, KV 404 (unfinished)

Yuri Smirnov, piano

Paganini:

Cantabile, Op. 17

Maria Bondarenko, piano

Caprice No. 4 in C minor (maestosa)

Caprice for solo violin, Op. 1 No. 17 in E flat major

Prokofiev:

Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Scherzo, vivacissimo, from violin concerto No. 1 in D major Op. 19, transcription for violin & piano

Yuri Smirnov, piano

Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II

Ravel:

Blues

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Reger:

Violin sonata in C minor, Op. 139

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Saint-Saëns:

Creatures with long ears (from carnaval des animeaux)

atiana Grindenko, violin II

Salmanov:

Violin Sonata No. 2

Maria Bondarenko, piano

Schoenberg:

Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Schubert:

Rondo for violin and strings in A major, D438

German Chamber Music Society

Introductions and Variations on 'Trockne Blumen' from Die Schöne Müllerin D802

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Rondo brillant in B minor, D895 (Op. 70)

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Shchedrin:

In Imitation of Albeniz

Maria Bondarenko, piano

Stockhausen:

Tierkreis, Op. 41

excerpts: Aquarius, Gemini, Pisces, Libra, Sagittarius, Leo

Tatiana Grinkdenko, violin II

Strauss, R:

Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Stravinsky:

Elegy, for solo violin

Tchaikovsky:

Valse-Scherzo

Yuri Smirnov, piano

Melodie from Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 No. 3

Yuri Smirnov, piano

Telemann:

Sonata en canon in A minor for 2 violins, Op. 5 No. 6

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II

Sonata en canon in G major, Op. 5 No. 1

Tatiana Grindenko, violin II

Webern:

Four pieces for violin & piano, Op. 7 (1910)

Oleg Maisenberg, piano

Ysaye:

Sonata for violin & piano in F minor after Locatelli

Maria Bondarenko, piano

Sonata for solo violin in G major, Op. 27 No. 5


Gidon Kremer (violin)

Although he plays a modern violin, Kremer has always included Baroque music in his repertoire and it is fitting therefore that Bach, Biber and Telemann are featured in this set. Music from the 20th-century, such as Schöenberg, Webern and Stockhausen, is also prominently represented as are the stalwarts of the violin repertory, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Predictably, Russian composers form a major part of this offering, from the well known (Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev) to the more obtuse (Karayev and Salmanov).

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Schoenberg: Moses und Aron

Schoenberg: Moses und Aron


Franz Mazura, Philip Langridge, Aage Haugland, Barbara Bonney, Mira Zakai, Daniel Harper, Thomas Dymit & Herbert Wittges

Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Recorded - Orchestra Hall, Chicago, May 1984

"Solti gives Schoenberg's masterly score a dynamism and warmth which set it firmly - if perhaps surprisingly - in the grand romantic tradition ... As Aaron, Philip Langridge is lighter and more lyrical ... Aage Haugland with his firm, dark bass makes his mark in the small role of the Priest; Barbara Bonney too is excellent as the Young Girl. Above all, the brilliant singing of the Chicago Symphony Chorus matches the playing of the orchestra in virtuosity. More than ever the question-mark concluding Act II makes a pointful close, with no feeling of a work unfinished. The brilliant recording has an even sharper focus on CD." The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs

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