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A few aging listeners will recall a time when the only way to hear most of the music of Anton Webern was through the recordings of Robert Craft. Few of those listeners will recall those performances with pleasure. Webern's music was new then, so most of it had never been recorded before, so no one really knew how it went. That Craft had his musicians do as well as they did is to be commended. That they didn't do it better is to be regretted. But that they set back the cause of Webern's music two decades is incontrovertible because in Craft's recordings, Webern's music sounds more like random bleeps, blips, and bloops than music.
That was then and this is now. Craft has had 50 years to live with Webern's music and two generations of musicians have grown up in the meantime. The first disc in Craft's second Webern series benefits immeasurably from both. Although Craft's Webern still sounds a bit angular, that may be an interpretative inclination rather than a technical flaw. More importantly, these performances are tremendously musical. For once, Webern's music sounds light, lyrical, witty, expressive, and tender. While some of the music on this disc is still a stiff dose of unreconstructed dodecaphonic serialism, most of it is passionately controlled, deeply emotional, and profoundly spiritual. Naxos' sound is clear and vivid.
© TiVo
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Symphony, Op. 21 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
5 Canons on Latin Texts, Op. 16 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
3 Traditional Rhymes, Op. 17 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Peter Rosegger, Lyricist - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jesse Mills, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Peter Rosegger, Lyricist - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jesse Mills, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Peter Rosegger, Lyricist - Anonymous, Lyricist - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jesse Mills, Performer - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
3 Songs, Op. 18 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Scott Kuney, Performer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Peter Rosegger, Lyricist - Anonymous, Lyricist - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Scott Kuney, Performer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Peter Rosegger, Lyricist - Anonymous, Lyricist - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Scott Kuney, Performer - Charles Neidich, Performer - Peter Rosegger, Lyricist - Anonymous, Lyricist - Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
String Trio, Op. 20 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Fred Sherry, Performer - Ani Kavafian, Performer - Richard O'Neill, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Fred Sherry, Performer - Ani Kavafian, Performer - Richard O'Neill, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Quartet, Op. 22 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jennifer Frautschi, Performer - Daniel Goble, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer - Michael Lowenstern, Performer - Jennifer Frautschi, Performer - Daniel Goble, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Variations for Piano, Op. 27 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
6 Pieces, Op. 6 (revised version) (Anton Webern)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
4 Pièces, op. 7 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer - Jesse Mills, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer - Jesse Mills, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer - Jesse Mills, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer - Jesse Mills, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Drei kleine Stücke, Op. 11 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Fred Sherry, Performer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Fred Sherry, Performer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Fred Sherry, Performer - Christopher Oldfather, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Concerto for 9 Instruments, Op. 24 (Anton Webern)
Anton Webern, Composer - Stephen Taylor, Performer - Charles Neidich, Performer - William Purvis, Performer - James Pugh, Performer - Richard O'Neill, Performer - Stephen Gosling, Performer - Sunghae Anna Lim, Performer - Christopher Gekker, Performer - David Fedele, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Stephen Taylor, Performer - Charles Neidich, Performer - William Purvis, Performer - James Pugh, Performer - Richard O'Neill, Performer - Stephen Gosling, Performer - Sunghae Anna Lim, Performer - Christopher Gekker, Performer - David Fedele, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Anton Webern, Composer - Stephen Taylor, Performer - Charles Neidich, Performer - William Purvis, Performer - James Pugh, Performer - Richard O'Neill, Performer - Stephen Gosling, Performer - Sunghae Anna Lim, Performer - Christopher Gekker, Performer - David Fedele, Performer
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
6 German Dances, D. 820 (arr. A. Webern) (Franz Schubert)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Franz Schubert, Composer - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Franz Schubert, Composer - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Franz Schubert, Composer - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Franz Schubert, Composer - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Franz Schubert, Composer - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Franz Schubert, Composer - Anton Webern, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Album review
A few aging listeners will recall a time when the only way to hear most of the music of Anton Webern was through the recordings of Robert Craft. Few of those listeners will recall those performances with pleasure. Webern's music was new then, so most of it had never been recorded before, so no one really knew how it went. That Craft had his musicians do as well as they did is to be commended. That they didn't do it better is to be regretted. But that they set back the cause of Webern's music two decades is incontrovertible because in Craft's recordings, Webern's music sounds more like random bleeps, blips, and bloops than music.
That was then and this is now. Craft has had 50 years to live with Webern's music and two generations of musicians have grown up in the meantime. The first disc in Craft's second Webern series benefits immeasurably from both. Although Craft's Webern still sounds a bit angular, that may be an interpretative inclination rather than a technical flaw. More importantly, these performances are tremendously musical. For once, Webern's music sounds light, lyrical, witty, expressive, and tender. While some of the music on this disc is still a stiff dose of unreconstructed dodecaphonic serialism, most of it is passionately controlled, deeply emotional, and profoundly spiritual. Naxos' sound is clear and vivid.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 42 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:49
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Robert Craft
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
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