String Quartet 2

Schoenberg, Turovsky - String Quartet 2

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Artist: Schoenberg, Turovsky
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-03-15
Music Label: Chandos
Soundtracks:

Transfigured Night, Op.4
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: I. Massig (Moderato)
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: II. Sehr rasch
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: III. Litanei: Langsam
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: IV. Enttruckung: Sehr langsam
Ode to Napoleon Op.41

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Music Review: "denis" is pathetically mediocre
Rating: 5 Stars

For decades spoil sports like "denisdiderot" below have been attacking Schoenberg's 12 tone system, saying, for example, that his music has no relation to "natural acoustics" and to the way "human beings make sense of sound". Well, last I checked, I'm a human being, one who happens to love this music, and I join musicians and music enthusiasts around the globe in praise of Schoenberg's work. The music of a "mediocre musical talent" doesn't last 50 years after his death. A talentless hack is forgotten. Schoenberg hasn't been forgotten and never will be. I dare say, though the real Denis Diderot is certainly remembered, the person below using Diderot's name as an alias will be forgotten shortly after his own death. Schoenberg will live on in the hearts and minds of musicians and music lovers everywhere as he does today.

Schoenberg's music is not for everyone, but then there's a lot in music that isn't for everyone. Try to accept that, though you may not connect with this composer, there are many who honestly do, and you may be missing something.

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Verklärte Nacht (1899) only hints at the atonal revolution that's to come in Schoenberg's music. Verklärte Nacht began as a string sextet, then was arranged for soprano and string orchestra in 1917--the version here. The work reflects the influence Wagnerian Romanticism had on the young composer, and is still mostly tonal. His String Quartet No. 2 (1907-08) is part of the shift away from tonality; there are sections of clashing tonalities, and the last movement does not have a key signature. Ode To Napoleon (1942) is for speaker, piano, and string orchestra. It uses a 12-tone row but allows for tonality in places. A good cross-section. --Paul Cook

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