classical music: schoenberg

classical music: schoenberg

classical music:

Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra

Philippe Muller, Pierre Strauch, ...

Sony, 1993

A convert
I would like to speak in regards to what some reviewers are saying about the works of Schoenberg. I will admit that the first time I heard Schoenberg, I wrote him off as weird music that I would never like and was not worth listening to. In my defense, the first work ...

Jacqueline du Pre - Favourite Cello Concertos ~ Boccherini, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Monn, Saint-Saens, Schumann

Edward Elgar, Luigi Boccherini, ...

EMI Classics, 1990

I THOUGHT I had heard these concertos,,,
UNTIL I was fortunate enough to have heard them performed by Jacqueline du Pre!!! ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!! Her superb playing, along with truly masterful interpretative skills, just "comes pouring out of the speakers!" Also, the orchestras were obviously truly ...

Les Miserables Complete Symphonic Recording

Claude-Michel Schoenberg, Martin Koch, ...

Red Ink, 2004

Les Mis - enough said
This is my favorite Broadway production. This is the best recording of Les Mis available.

The Ligeti Project

Omar Ebrahim, David Geringas, ...

Warner Classics, 2008

Together For Less
The skinny: Some of us paid significant sums of money to get these CDs when they were individually wrapped. You can get them now for much less, and in one convenient package. What you won't get are the equally fine 7 CDs that Sony produced under a similar concept ...

Miss Saigon (1995 Studio Cast)

Claude-Michel Schonberg, David Charles Abell, ...

Angel Records, 1995

Superb
This 1995 studio recording is fabulous. While I don't necessarily prefer it entirely over the original cast recording, there are elements to this recording that are over and above the original. Joanna Ampil, while delightful as Kim, lacks Lea Salonga's essence. ...

Renee and Bryn: Under the Stars

Renee Fleming, Bryn Terfel, ...

Decca, 2003

A Master Class in Singing
This CD is a must-have for any person interested in the singing art. Ms. Fleming and Mr. Terfel gives new light to these Musical Theatre classics. Their fine vocalism in the musical theatre genre coupled with the depth of musicality and dramatic phrasing in each of ...

Arnold Schoenberg - Moses und Aron

Franz Grundheber, Thomas Moser

ArtHaus, 2007

One of the most importan operas finally in DVD
Arnold Schoenberg composed Moses und Aron when he was at the most high compositional maturity . He began a new compositional technique more than ten years before . And really I think that this opera is one of the principal works he composed and the most fascinating ...

Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47

Sibelius, Schoenberg, ...

DG, 2008

Revelatory
The Schoenberg violin concerto is widely admired and widely studied, but it isn't much played, and it's never been much loved. This is partly because of the huge technical hurdles it presents fiddlers, but also because it isn't especially easy to bring off musically; ...

Leos Janacek - From the House of Dead / MCO, ASC, Boulez, Chereau (Festival Aix-en-Provence 2007)

Olaf Bär, Peter Straka

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

A searing and memorable final production from Boulez and Chereau
Janacek's final opera, composed in 1927-28 and given its posthumous premiere two years later, is based on the Dostoyevsky novel written in 1861-62 in which the author renders his own prison experiences. The story as seen in the opera is not presented in a linear ...

Schoenberg: The String Quartets

Arnold Schoenberg, Evelyn Lear, ...

Philips, 2000

A Revolutionary in Method, a Conservative in Tone
Although Schoenberg developed a revolutionary new method of organizing pitch, what is often overlooked is that serialism is just exactly that: a method of organizing pitch, and not a style per se. A variety of styles can be accomodated by this method. Folks who are ...

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Arranged by Schoenberg)

Gustav Mahler, Philippe Herreweghe, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2006

Viennese Mileu: Mahler and Schönberg...
. Schönberg loved and respected Mahler as man and master musician. In order to give more currency to Mahler's magnum opus--The Song of the Earth, in 1920 Schönberg reduced the orchestration down to a manageable nonet for chamber performance: flute, clarinet, two ...

Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise / van Dam, Upshaw, Nagano

Olivier Messiaen, Kent Nagano, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1999

Ravishing Music
This work is the culmination of a lifetime of musical experimentation and fervent religous devotion. It contains a remarkable amount of absolutely ravishing music. The soloists, chorus, and orchestral work in this recording are absolutely first rate. As an effort to ...

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert von Karajan, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1998

Schoenberg's Pelléas (Op. 5)
. Maeterlinck was and remains an unique and important poetic/literary/theatrical innovator in the categories of Symbolism and proto-Surrealism. One must appreciate just how avant-garde his work was at the Fin de Siécle. Even now his work retains its interest because ...

Instruments of the Orchestra

Various Artists

Naxos, 2002

Very Informative and Enjoyable
Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes ...

Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Op 21; The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15

Michael Rudiakov, Arthur Bloom, ...

Nonesuch, 1992

amazing
I love this recording of Pierrot so much that there was a time when I listened to it pretty much on repeat the way people usually do with rock albums. If you've heard another recording of Pierrot and didn't like it (like that horrible Boulez one), do yourself a favor ...