Anton Webern - The complete string trios and quartets [Arditti String Quartet]
Arditti Quartet Edition, Vol. 8
Genre: XX Century Classical | 1 CD | MP3 @ 192 | No Scans | 91 Mb RAR archive
Publisher: Auvidis / Montaigne | Year:1991
Arditti Quartet Edition, Vol. 8
Genre: XX Century Classical | 1 CD | MP3 @ 192 | No Scans | 91 Mb RAR archive
Publisher: Auvidis / Montaigne | Year:1991
For a number of years, Webern wrote pieces which were freely atonal, much in the style of Schoenberg's early atonal works. With the Drei Geistliche Volkslieder (1925) he used Schoenberg's twelve tone technique for the first time, and all his subsequent works used this technique. The String Trio (1927) was both the first purely instrumental work using the twelve tone technique (the other pieces were songs) and the first cast in a traditional musical form.
Webern's tone rows are often arranged to take advantage of internal symmetries; for example, a twelve-tone row may be divisible into four groups of three pitches which are variations, such as inversions and retrogrades, of each other, thus creating invariance. This gives Webern's work considerable motivic unity, although this is often obscured by the fragmentation of the melodic lines. This fragmentation occurs through octave displacement (using intervals greater than an octave) and by moving the line rapidly from instrument to instrument (sometimes, and somewhat erroneously, called Klangfarbenmelodie).wikipedia.org
Performers:
- Arditti String Quartet: Rohan de Saram, Levine Andrade, David Alberman, Irvine Arditti
Tracklist:
1-5. Five Movements for string quartet, op.5
6-11. Six Bagatelles for string quartet, op.9
12-14. String Quartet, op.28
15-16. String Trio, op.20
17. Movement for string trio, op. posth.
18. String Quartet (1905)
19. Slow Movement for string quartet
20. Rondo for string quartet