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Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Suite for Piano, Op.25
Lied der Waldtaube from Gurre-Lieder (arranged by the composer in 1923 for an orchestra of 18)
The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op.15
15 Poems from Stefan George’s “Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten”
A Conversation with Arnold Schoenberg
Christopher Oldfather (piano), Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano), Fred Sherry String Quartet
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble/ Robert Craft
Following last month’s issue of Gurre-Lieder, Volume 2 of the Naxos Robert Craft Schoenberg Collection features the Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra after Handel, a work so freely transcribed and developed that it should be counted among Schoenberg’s own compositions. Arguably one of his most high-spirited, tender and tuneful works, it is also one of the most demanding for the solo instruments of a quartet since Beethoven’s Great Fugue.
For the first performance of The Book of the Hanging Gardens, a setting for mezzo-soprano and piano to texts by Stefan George (1868-1933), Schoenberg himself wrote: “I have for the first time succeeded in approaching an ideal of expression and form which has been in my mind for years”.
This new release also includes the 1940s recording of Arnold Schoenberg in conversation with Halsey Stevens of the Music Department at the University of Southern California, the author of an important book on Bartók.
Naxos 8557520
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