The symphonic principle, as we've been discovering, can take in a gigantic range of interpretations; from Berio's centrigufal sounding together of a world of reference, history and allusion, to the ...
Robert Craft was one of the first conductors to champion Webern's music in a systematic way. His album of the major orchestral works, which appeared in the 1960s, was one of the most accessible ...
Anton Webern hat insgesamt nur 31 Werke als sein offizielles Oeuvre anerkannt. Die Gesamtdauer aller Werke mit Opuszahl beträgt lediglich etwas über drei Stunden - Ergebnis einer kompromisslosen ...
Difficult, tuneless and degenerate? Far from it. The serialism composers of the Second Viennese School like Schoenberg, Berg and Webern are among the most controversial of the 20th Century, but how do ...
“This is a song for you alone”: such is the invitational opening line of the first of five songs set to Stefan George poems (Op. 3) by Anton Webern (1883-1945). It’s one of thirty-one works in which ...
Amazon mp3: NA | Amazon CD: ~$11 | ArkivMusic: $19 | Qobuz: £8 - £12 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 It took the ECM album “Messe Noire” for me to get wise to the extraordinary pianism of Alexei Lubimov.
A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary composers, especially Boulez and Stockhausen. The son of an aristocratic mining engineer (Webern dropped ...