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Pierre Woudenberg (clarinet), Bob Zimmerman (harmonium) & Sepp Grotenhuis (piano) Schoenberg Quartet This disc of Berg’s complete output for chamber music was originally issued by Chandos in 2001, as part of the Schoenberg Quartet’s traversal of all the chamber music written by the Second Viennese School. It included many rarities and arrangements – here, for instance, is the only currently available recording of Berg’s own transcription of the last of his early and passionate Altenberg-Lieder for a quartet of piano, harmonium, violin and cello, made for performance at an influential private musical society, established by Schoenberg in 1900 in order to play and promote the revolutionary music of himself, his friends and associates, away from the catcalls of the conservative Viennese public. This disc contains some of the most heartfelt and openly passionate music from a musical school often regarded as forbidding and abstract. “The Lyric Suite is among the crowning works of modern quartet literature, and the Schoenberg Quartet has the measure of its diverse moods and twin-track trajectory of increasing dynamism and emotional intensity.” Gramophone Magazine | 
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| |  | Berg: | String Quartet, Op. 3 The String Quartet, Op. 3, completed in 1910, is both a graduation exercise and also the composer’s first extended foray into the non-tonal regions that were then being explored by Schoenberg and Webern Lyric Suite - String Quartet (1926) Berg’s highly expressive Lyric Suite, inspired by his love-affair with the wife of a family friend, is notable for its unconventional six-movement form, the odd-numbered of which become progressively faster and more disruptive, while the even numbered ones become progressively slower and more intense. | Wolf, H: | Italian Serenade in G major WW XV / 3 Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade is a lighthearted piece later orchestrated as the first movement of a larger suite. |
New Zealand String Quartet “…as you listen to these works afresh, you not only marvel at the individual players' virtuosity, but you also have to appreciate that the relatively warm yet pleasingly "edgy" quality to the sound and the oneness of spirit in the interpretations come from the highest-order functioning of the well-integrated collective parts of a mature, vital body--that is, a string quartet that's been together a long time, each member sharing life and breath in the music they make together… you shouldn't miss this extraordinary recording.”
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| |  | Schoenberg - Complete String QuartetsRecorded 1950-1952
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 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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