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Berg / Webern / Schoenberg - Orchestral Pieces (1987)

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The compositions recorded here—one by Schoenberg, the others by his two most celebrated pupils and dedicated to him—all belong to the first phase of twentieth-century musical radicalism. To many, such radicalism still has its forbidding side, and Schoenberg himself, in a short retrospective essay called "A Self-Analysis", written near the end of his life, acknowledged certain "obstacles to understanding", principally the "tendency to endow every work with an extravagant abundance of musical themes". The "obstacles" are not insurmoutable, however, not least because that characteristic abundance projects such gripping emotional conviction. Such explanations from a composer once regarded as the acme of austere abstraction may be embarrassing, even distasteful. But they are also salutary. Music of such astonishing intensity could never have been conceived purely intellectually, still less "mathematically". Berg and Webern are by no means any less radical than their forebear and it reinforces the fact theat, despite their common Schoenbergian connections, these three works are very different from each other.

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

3 Orchesterstücke op. 6

Anton von Webern (1883-1945)

6 Stücke für Orchester op. 6

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

5 Orchesterstücke op. 16

Berliner Philharmoniker

James Levine, Conductor

Deutsche Grammophon: 419 781-2

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