Latest News: Classical, Schoenberg (composer)
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Interview,
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Transfigured 24th October 2023The chamber ensemble's Artistic Director Tom Poster talks about their new album of works from the Second Viennese School - with a selection of songs from the cruelly truncated career of Alma Mahler in pride of place.
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Recording of the Week,
A fin-de-siècle voyage with Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet 8th September 2023The quartet - joined by Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou - go out on a high after nearly fifty years of music-making, with a programme of early twentieth-century works themed around journeying and longing.
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Recording of the Week,
Berg, Webern and Schoenberg from the Heath Quartet 15th July 2022The UK-based string quartet bring luminous clarity and beauty to three transitional works by the Second Viennese School, with soprano Carolyn Sampson joining them for Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2.
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Recording of the Week,
Francesco Piemontesi performs works for piano and orchestra by Ravel, Messiaen, and Schoenberg 8th July 2022The Swiss pianist is joined by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott for a dazzlingly characterful trio of performances.
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Recording of the Week,
Verklärte Nacht from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1st January 2021Schoenberg's masterpiece is framed by works for voice and orchestra (also on the theme of 'transfigured night') by Franz Lehár, Oskar Fried, and Erich Korngold.
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Interview,
Edward Gardner on Schoenberg 9th June 2020The British conductor talks to Katherine about his recording of Erwartung & Pelleas und Melisande, released on Chandos last month, and socially-distanced music-making in Bergen.
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Interview,
Jack Liebeck on Brahms and Schoenberg 22nd April 2020The violinist talks to Katherine about his BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, which was inspired in part by the memory of his grandfather Walter Liebeck - an accomplished amateur violinist and German emigré.
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Recording of the Week,
Music by Haydn and Schoenberg from cellist Alisa Weilerstein 10th August 2018James listens to energetic, vital accounts of Haydn's two cello concertos from Alisa Weilerstein, coupled with an expressively radiant performance of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht.
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Recording of the Week,
Markus Stenz conducts Schoenberg's Gurrelieder 29th June 2015James listens to Markus Stenz and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln's new recording of Schoenberg's colossal epic.
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Favourites,
Arnold Schoenberg James selects some great recordings of music by the father of twelve-tone composition.
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Recording of the Week,
Schoenberg and Berg 13th February 2012Isabelle Faust pairs the Berg and Beethoven violin concertos to great effect with Orchestra Mozart and Claudio Abbado, whilst Pierre Boulez brings breathtaking clarity to Schoenberg’s densely-orchestrated Pelleas et Melisande with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
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Recording of the Week,
Brahms/Schoenberg from Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker 8th August 2011Rattle conducts Schoenberg’s orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, plus the Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Accompanying Music to a Cinematographic Scene.
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Recording of the Week,
Hilary Hahn plays Schoenberg and Sibelius 10th March 2008The American violinist’s ‘beautiful sound and technical brilliance’ make a strong impact in two twentieth-century concertos with the Swedish Radio Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen.