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Gurzenich-Orchester Koln, Markus Stenz, Soloists - Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (2015) 2CDs

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Gurzenich-Orchester Koln, Markus Stenz, Soloists - Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (2015) 2CDs

Arnold Schoenberg - Gurre-Lieder (2015) 2CDs
Barbara Haveman (soprano), Claudia Mahnke (mezzo), Brandon Jovanovich (tenor)
Gerhard Siegel (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone), Johannes Martin Kränzle (speaker)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, conducted by Markus Stenz

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 545 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 251 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68081/2 | Time: 01:48:01

Markus Stenz and the Gürzenich Orchestra Köln have demonstrated a special aptitude for performing large scale post-Romantic works, notably the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, which they recorded for Oehms Classics as a series of hybrid SACDs. They have followed that impressive cycle with what is probably the most Mahlerian work Arnold Schoenberg ever composed, the massive Gurrelieder for solo voices, multiple choruses, and large orchestra. This 2015 Hyperion release is impressive in its crisp details, vibrant tone colors, and startling clarity, all of which are evident in the opening instrumental passages in the Prelude, and which continue through the nearly operatic vocal parts, which have remarkable presence in the face of an orchestra that exceeds Wagnerian proportions. The recording is presented on two CDs that offer extraordinary sound for digital stereo, and the only disappointment is that this wasn't released as a multichannel recording. Listeners who find Schoenberg's modernist music difficult may be more receptive to this cantata, which is his most openly Romantic score and strongly reminiscent of Wagner's music dramas. Highly recommended.

Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto (1985)

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Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto (1985)

Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 62:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CBS Masterworks | # MK 39863 | Recorded: 1984

Sony Classical is excited to present the fantastic 1984 recording of Yo-Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a newly remastered re-release. This stellar line-up got together to record R. Strauss’ Don Quixote - indisputably the composer’s finest example of musical painting, his most daring in design and most controversial in effects - and Schoenberg’s fascinating arrangement of Monn’s Harpsichord Concerto for Cello and Orchestra.

Pierre Boulez conducts Schoenberg, Berio, Carter, Kurtag, Xenakis, Birtwistle, Grisey, Dufourt, Ferneyhough (1995) 5CD Box Set

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Pierre Boulez conducts Schoenberg, Berio, Carter, Kurtag, Xenakis, Birtwistle, Grisey, Dufourt, Ferneyhough (1995) 5CD Box Set

Pierre Boulez conducts Arnold Schoenberg, Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, György Kurtág
Iannis Xenakis, Harrison Birtwistle, Gérard Grisey, Hugues Dufourt, Brian Ferneyhough (1995)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre National de France; Ensemble InterContemporain
New Swingle Singers, Heinz Holliger, Régis Pasquier, André Trouttet, Sophie Cherrier
Choeur John Alldis, Adrienne Csengery, Marta Fabian, Istvan Matuz

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.03 Gb | Scans ~ 78 Mb | Time: 04:57:24
Genre: Classical | Label: Erato | # 4509-98496-2

Collecting five CDs for about the price of three, this set of Boulez recordings is without parallel among the conductor's new-music releases. Imagine getting Boulez's celebrated single CD of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia and Eindrücke and his equally impressive single CD of Arnold Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande and Variations for Orchestra, bundled with four pivotal Elliott Carter works, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's electrifying …AGM…, Gérard Grisey's Modulations, Iannis Xenakis's Jalons, Hugues Dufourt's Antiphysis, and Brian Ferneyhough's Funerailles, and you have an idea how far this set stretches.

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande (1998)

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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande (1998)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 338 Mb | Total time: 73:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 457 721-2 | Recorded: 1973, 1974

This is a very distinguished coupling, superbly played by the BPO – a truly 'legendary' reissue, quite unsurpassed on record. Karajan never approached contemporary music with the innate radicalism and inside knowledge of a composer-conductor like Boulez; yet he can't be accused of distorting reality by casting a pall of late-Romantic opulence and languor over these works. He's understandably most at home in the expansive and often openly tragic atmosphere of Schoenberg's early tone-poems Verklärte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande. The richly blended playing of the BPO provides the ideal medium for Karajan's seamless projection of structure and expression.

Thomas Larcher - Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert: Klavierstucke (1999)

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Thomas Larcher - Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert: Klavierstucke (1999)

Thomas Larcher - Arnold Schönberg, Franz Schubert: Klavierstücke (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 162 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 155 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1667, 465 136-2 | 01:04:28

Consummation. This is what the piano music of Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) and Franz Schubert (1979-1828) have in common, the bridge that Thomas Larcher brings to this welcoming solo recital, his first for ECM. To underscore this point, he shuffles Schönberg’s Klavierstücke op. 11 with Schubert’s posthumous Klavierstücke D 946. By turns halting and didactic, the opening pairing opens into the fresh air of Schubert’s precisely syncopated revelry. The contrasts between the two composers are obvious to the ear, but to the heart Schönberg is an extended exhalation to Schubert’s inhalation. Where Schönberg plots slow, jagged caverns, Schubert runs furtively above ground in the sunshine. Yet both seem so urgent to tell their stories, offering lifelong journeys from relatively young minds.

Talich Quartet - Arnold Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht; Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet (1989)

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Talich Quartet - Arnold Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht; Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet (1989)

Talich Quartet - Arnold Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht; Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 61:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Calliope | # CAL 9217 | Recorded: 1989

The Talich Quartet, complemented here by Jiri Najnar and Vaclav Bernasek, illuminate these chamber music gems in brilliant colors. The string sextet version of Schoenberg's Verkleñrte Nacht (Transfigured Night), which is still bound to the late Romanticism, is a true enrichment to the repertoire.

The Heath Quartet - Berg, Webern, Schoenberg: String Quartets (2022)

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The Heath Quartet - Berg, Webern, Schoenberg: String Quartets (2022)

The Heath Quartet - Berg, Webern, Schoenberg: String Quartets (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 62:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD712 | Recorded: 2019

Three works from pivotal years in the development of the 'Second Viennese School'—and indeed the whole of western classical music—in performances by the award-winning Heath Quartet.

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Webern, Berg, Schoenberg (1999)

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Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Webern, Berg, Schoenberg (1999)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Webern: Passacaglia; Schoenberg: Variations op. 31; Berg: 3 Pieces from the "Lyric Suite", 3 Pieces for Orchestra op. 6 (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 73:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 457 760-2 | Recorded: 1972-1974

Karajan reportedly felt so strongly about his recordings of the Second Viennese School that he agreed to finance them himself when DG balked at picking up the tab. These are great performances, to be sure. Indeed, there may be some others that are comparable, but none are superior. The Berg pieces never have sounded so decadently beautiful, nor the Webern so passionately intense, or the Schoenberg so, well, just plain listenable. The Berlin Philharmonic strings make their usual luscious sounds, but here the winds, brass, and even percussion rise to the occasion as well. And sonically these were always some of Karajan’s best efforts. Essential, then, and a perfect way to get to know these three composers on a single disc.

VA - Listening to Arnold Schoenberg (2022)

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VA - Listening to Arnold Schoenberg (2022)

VA - Listening to Arnold Schoenberg (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 722 MB
5:07:50 | Classical | Label: UMG

A quarter‐century after his death and a half‐century after some of his most controversial music was composed. Arnold Schoenberg still stands in the path of music like the ghost of the king in Hamlet, demanding to be heeded. Not that he is forgotten: Charles Rosen, in his remarkably pithy volume (the latest in the Modern Masters series edited by Frank Kermode) asserts that Schoenberg's 12‐tone and otherwise serialistic works “have, in a strange way, become a normal part of today's music; they are not often heard, but they are the works that have been imitated by hundreds of composers all over the world.” True enough, but that has not been enough to lay the ghost. The fact, which even Mr. Rosen's eloquent advocacy only emphasizes, is that the rigorously atonal works, composed after 1921, have never developed a public outside professional music circles, and even there the attitude is largely respect rather than love.

Malin Broman, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra - Stockholm Diary: Salonen, Beamish, Schoenberg, Stravinsky (2022)

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Malin Broman, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra - Stockholm Diary: Salonen, Beamish, Schoenberg, Stravinsky (2022)

Malin Broman, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra - Stockholm Diary: Salonen, Beamish, Schoenberg, Stravinsky (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 348 Mb | Total time: 71:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 467 | Recorded: 2021

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra and its artistic director Malin Broman have released their first joint album. Stockholm Diary includes Arnold Schönberg's cult work Verklärte Nacht as well as premiere recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen's 'Stockholm Diary'. The Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra is conducted by Malin Broman, a Swedish violinist who is also the violin and viola soloist on the album. The unifying factor in the album is not only Schönberg's work Verklärte Nacht, but also the city of Los Angeles. 'The composers of the album, Schönberg, Salonen and Stravinsky, have all been in Los Angeles at some point, so the name of the album could just as well have been LA Diary,' laughs Malin Broman.

Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

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Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg - The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)
Quatuor Diotima, string quartet; Sandrine Piau, soprano; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 265 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naive | # V 5240 | Time: 01:04:19

Recordings that include strings quartets by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern are common, but an album that includes music for quartet and voice by each of them is a rarity. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, with a part for soprano in its third and fourth movements, is standard repertoire, but the version of Berg's Lyric Suite with a vocal part in the final movement is highly unusual, and Webern's bagatelle with voice, an unpublished movement apparently once intended to be part of the Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, receives what is probably its first recording. Novelty aside, the high standards of these performances make this a formidable release. Founded just before the turn of the millennium, Quatuor Diotima plays with the assurance and mutual understanding of a seasoned ensemble. The quartet has a lean, clean sound and the ensemble is immaculate, playing with exquisite expressiveness, an ideal combination for this repertoire.

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Op.4; Alban Berg: Lyrischen Suite; Anton Webern: Passacaglia, Op.1 (2007)

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Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Op.4; Alban Berg: Lyrischen Suite; Anton Webern: Passacaglia, Op.1 (2007)

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op.4;
Alban Berg: Lyrischen Suite; Anton Webern: Passacaglia, Op.1 (2007)
Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert von Karajan

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 270 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # UCCG-5148 | Time: 00:59:29

Karajan reportedly felt so strongly about his recordings of the Second Viennese School that he agreed to finance them himself when DG balked at picking up the tab. These are great performances, to be sure. Indeed, there may be some others that are comparable, but none are superior. The Berg pieces never have sounded so decadently beautiful, nor the Webern so passionately intense, or the Schoenberg so, well, just plain listenable. The Berlin Philharmonic strings make their usual luscious sounds, but here the winds, brass, and even percussion rise to the occasion as well. And sonically these were always some of Karajan's best efforts. Essential, then, and a perfect way to get to know these three composers on a single disc.

Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Daishin Kashimoto, Zvi Plesser, Éric Le Sage - Vienne 1900: Le salon de musique (2020)

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Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Daishin Kashimoto, Zvi Plesser, Éric Le Sage - Vienne 1900: Le salon de musique (2020)

Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Daishin Kashimoto, Zvi Plesser, Éric Le Sage - Vienne 1900: Le salon de musique (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 471 Mb | Total time: 115:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA 588 | Recorded: 2018

Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese composers of the early twentieth century. The most famous and innovative of these are represented: Schoenberg with his Kammersymphonie no.1, Mahler with two lieder transcribed for flute and piano, Zemlinsky’s Clarinet Trio and several pieces by Berg. A disc that encapsulates both the exhaustion of a bygone Romantic age and the avant-garde promises of a modern world still to be built…

Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert de Leeuw - Vienna. Fin de Siècle (2018)

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Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert de Leeuw - Vienna. Fin de Siècle (2018)

Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert de Leeuw - Vienna. Fin de Siècle (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 287 Mb | Total time: 77:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | ALPHA 393 | Recorded: 2017

Soprano Barbara Hannigan has become something of a cult favorite with her deep dives into specific and unusual repertories. Her self-presentation in concert is unorthodox and marked by full-scale efforts to communicate the essence of the music at hand, in works ranging from Berio to Gershwin. So it is with this set of songs from the decade and a half on either side of 1900 in Vienna. The enjoyment begins with the physically passionate cover, an example of her way of personifying the music's spirit. Hannigan's is an utterly distinctive voice, edgy and coruscating, and she knows how to tone down her considerable virtuosic powers to the dimensions of the music, such as that here, intended for small rooms.

Alisa Weilerstein, Trondheim Soloists - Transfigured Night: Haydn & Schoenberg (2018)

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Alisa Weilerstein, Trondheim Soloists - Transfigured Night: Haydn & Schoenberg (2018)

Alisa Weilerstein, Trondheim Soloists - Transfigured Night: Haydn & Schoenberg (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 73:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | PTC 5186 717 | Recorded: 2018

Transfigured Night brings together two outstanding composers associated with Vienna: Joseph Haydn and Arnold Schoenberg. The former is often seen as the oldest representative of the First Viennese School, whereas the latter founded the Second Viennese School, using the classicism of his predecessors to explore new, atonal musical paths into the twentieth century. By combining Haydns two cello concertos (in C-major and D-major) and Schoenbergs symphonic poem Verklärte Nacht in the 1943 edition for string orchestra this album sheds a new, fascinating light on both Viennese masters. The connection between the stylistically contrasting pieces on this album is further enhanced by the inspired playing of American cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the Trondheim Soloists.