Herbert Von Karajan - Schoenberg Berg Webern: Orchesterw (Shm-CD)
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Artist: Herbert Von KarajanEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Music reviews of Schoenberg Berg Webern: Orchesterw (Shm-CD)
Music Review: Finest New Viennese Orchestral...
Rating: 5 Stars
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Reissue of ASIN: B00000E4E4.
Originally issued in 1985, this 3CD set features the major orchestral pieces of the New Viennese School with Karajan + BPO, recorded at the height of their powers in the early-'70s: this was a project of love and respect to convey rare art which was relatively unknown at that time.
Sch?nberg's set of Orchestral Variations (Op. 31) is surely his most quintessential work for symphony sans voice. Pelleas and Verkl?rte are duo works of his early period.
Berg's complex Orchesterst?cke is contemporaneous with Wozzeck in lyrical Expressionism.
Webern's Passacaglia (1908) parallels Sch?nberg's early period ethos; followed by the great leap forward in 1909 with the Op. 6 Orchesterst?cke.
Individual movements and sections of these works are meticulously cued on these discs for microscopic study.
Informative notes by Arnold Whittall and H. H. Stuckenschmidt.
Materials from this set have been issued and reissued in various guises on other discs.
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Second Viennese School (Berg, Webern, Schoenberg)/Karajan & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (3 CDs)
Schoenberg: Verkl?rte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Schoenberg, Berg, Webern: Orchestral Works / Karajan
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Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon; Webern: String Trio (features Webern's exquisite early C-major Piano Quintet of 1907)
Schoenberg: Ein Uberlebender Aus Warschau; Webern: Orchesterwerke - Claudio Abbado
Berg: Pieces Orchestra (3)/Early Songs (7)
Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
Berg: Lulu Suite, Altenberg-Lieder / Abbado, Price
Schumann, Schoenberg: Piano Concertos
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Review for: Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht - Transfigured Night - Variations for Orchestra:
Citing John Coombs' translation of H. H. Stuckenschmidt's original liner-notes on the 1975 LP of this issue:
"Richard Dehmel as a lyric poet, and by his fusion of Nietzsche's doctrine of the superior man with [contemporaneous] socialistic ideas, made a powerful impression on German thought between 1890 and 1910.
Following von Zemlinsky, Sch?nberg changed at that time from being a strict Brahmsian to a fervent Wagnerian.
The impression of youthful eros is reflected in Verkl?rte Nacht, inspired by Dehmel's poetry.
Like Smetana in his String Quartet "From my life," Sch?nberg here adopts the principles of tone painting and of programme music in a chamber work.
Corresponding to Dehmel's poem, the Sextet consists of five sections, played without a break.
The inexhaustibility of the thematic ideas and their variants, the chromatic harmonies and enharmonic effects derived from Wagner's Tristan, and the imaginative combinations of string timbers all go far beyond the previous traditions of chamber music.
Premi?res in Vienna and Berlin in 1902 dazed critics with incomprehension and bewilderment.
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The first performance (2 Dec. 1928) of the Orchestral Variations with Furtw?ngler in Berlin led to stormy disturbances among the audience present, followed by violent attacks in the (proto-)fascist press.
This exquisite work is scored for large orchestra including celesta and mandoline.
Its form consists of Introduction, [IX] Variations, and Finale.
The theme (a twelve-note series) is presented by the solo cello. The theme is used in its three mirror versions (retrograde, inverted, and retrograde inverted), as well as in several transpositions. Towards the end of the introduction, the B-A-C-H (Bb-A-C-B) motif is inserted and later recrus twice.
These are developmental variations, each expressing a particular character:
the lyrical II has a chamber music character;
III stormy;
IV waltzlike;
V as complex (consisting of many "boxes") as I;
VI (andante) lyrical;
VII (langsam);
VIII rapid;
IX mirror canon.
In the finale the B-A-C-H figure recurs.
The wealth of fine points of the motifs and the contranpuntal artistry which this score contains will only be fully evident after repeated hearings."
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The incredible expressiveness of crystalline righteous indignation is utterly cathartic.
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Surrealistic Magritte-ish cover-art perfectly correspondent with the cerebral abstract musical art contained therein.
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