Recent publications including books and recordings.
Verklaerte Nacht arranged for piano by Michel Gaechter
Now available from Belmont Music R.B. 4383
Schoenberg’s Chamber Music, Schoenberg’s World
With his setting of Stefan George’s portentous poetic text “Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten" ("I feel the air of another planet") in the Second String Quartet, Op. 10 (1908), Arnold Schoenberg proclaimed the arrival of a new kind of music for the twentieth century. Pendragon Press marks the centenary of this epochal masterpiece with the publication of a wide-ranging collection of essays on Schoenberg’s chamber works, and the man behind the music.
With a list of distinguished contributors from three continents—including Alexander Carpenter, James Deaville, Murray Dineen, Sabine Feisst, Allen Forte, Áine Heneghan, Yoko Hirota, Elaine Keillor, Don McLean, Christian Meyer, Severine Neff, Bryan Proksch, and James Wright—the book presents new historical, theoretical, biographical, and semiotic perspectives on Schoenberg’s chamber music, aesthetics, teaching, and persona. The links between his chamber music and earlier traditions, as well as its impact on subsequent generations of composers internationally, are among the areas of focus. The book features an Introduction written by Lawrence Schoenberg, the composer’s son.
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The Works of Arnold Schoenberg Vol 1
Robert Craft Edition 5-CD Boxed Set
Concerto for String Quartet, The Book of the Hanging Gardens, A Conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, Serenade, Variations Op 31, Bach orchestrations, Five Pieces for Orchestra, Cello Concerto, Piano Quartet No 1 (Brahms arr. Schoenberg), Chamber Symphony No 2, Die gluckliche Hand, Wind Quintet, Violin Concerto, Ode to Napoleon / A Survivor from Warsaw
Soloists • Schoenberg (interview) • Fred Sherry Quartet
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
Philharmonia Orchestra • London Symphony Orchestra
Simon Joly Chorale • New York Woodwind Quintet • Craft
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Robert Craft, the noted conductor and widely respected writer and critic on music, literature and culture, holds a unique place in the world of classical music. He is in the process of recording the complete works of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Webern for Naxos. Craft has twice won the Grand Prix du Disque as well as the Edison Prize for his landmark recordings of Schoenberg, Webern and Varese.
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