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Originally released by Koch, these recordings of key works in Arnold Schoenberg's oeuvre are now part of Naxos' Robert Craft Collection, a series of reissues that reaffirms the conductor's unflagging devotion to modern music, even if the performances and recording quality periodically flag. The pieces predate Schoenberg's discovery of the twelve-tone system and are to varying degrees atonal and expressionistic, with the exception of the tonal Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1906), which was composed just before the atonal period. Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912), is Schoenberg's best-known work, famous for introducing Sprechgesang or Sprechstimme (a vocal technique in which words are half-spoken, half-sung) and for influencing numerous modernist vocal pieces since. This angst-laden cycle on "three times seven poems by Albert Giraud in German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben" is convincingly played by members of the Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, though Anja Silja's consonants are not at all clear, and the listener is obliged to acquire the libretto to understand what she is declaiming. Unclear enunciation is also a problem in appreciating the short, fragile song Herzgewächse, Op. 20 (1911), and the brooding Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22 (1916), which are sung by soprano Eileen Hulse and mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers, respectively, though their voices are much clearer than Silja's and some of the words can be made out with close listening. The Philharmonia Orchestra is full-sounding and warm in Opus 22, suggesting that the musicians responded well to the music and to Craft's direction. The performance of the Chamber Symphony is rather more brusque and angular, and the playing by the full Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble is more typical of Craft's performances in its extremely dry tone and mechanically stiff lines. As one might expect of such a compilation, the recordings made at Abbey Road Studios (Herzgwächse, Four Orchestral Songs) are superior to that of Pierrot, which was made at the Academy of Arts and Letters, and that of the Chamber Symphony, which was recorded at the Recital Hall of SUNY Purchase.
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Herzgewächse, op. 20 (Arnold Schönberg)
Sioned Williams, Artist - Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - John Alley, Artist - Tim Carey, Artist - Eileen Hulse, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21 (Arnold Schönberg)
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, pt. 3 (Arnold Schönberg)
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21 (Arnold Schönberg)
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Anja Silja, Artist, MainArtist - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
4 Lieder, Op. 22 (Arnold Schönberg)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor - Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor - Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor - Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor - Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 9 (Arnold Schönberg)
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Robert Craft, Conductor - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Albumbeschreibung
Originally released by Koch, these recordings of key works in Arnold Schoenberg's oeuvre are now part of Naxos' Robert Craft Collection, a series of reissues that reaffirms the conductor's unflagging devotion to modern music, even if the performances and recording quality periodically flag. The pieces predate Schoenberg's discovery of the twelve-tone system and are to varying degrees atonal and expressionistic, with the exception of the tonal Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1906), which was composed just before the atonal period. Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912), is Schoenberg's best-known work, famous for introducing Sprechgesang or Sprechstimme (a vocal technique in which words are half-spoken, half-sung) and for influencing numerous modernist vocal pieces since. This angst-laden cycle on "three times seven poems by Albert Giraud in German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben" is convincingly played by members of the Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, though Anja Silja's consonants are not at all clear, and the listener is obliged to acquire the libretto to understand what she is declaiming. Unclear enunciation is also a problem in appreciating the short, fragile song Herzgewächse, Op. 20 (1911), and the brooding Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22 (1916), which are sung by soprano Eileen Hulse and mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers, respectively, though their voices are much clearer than Silja's and some of the words can be made out with close listening. The Philharmonia Orchestra is full-sounding and warm in Opus 22, suggesting that the musicians responded well to the music and to Craft's direction. The performance of the Chamber Symphony is rather more brusque and angular, and the playing by the full Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble is more typical of Craft's performances in its extremely dry tone and mechanically stiff lines. As one might expect of such a compilation, the recordings made at Abbey Road Studios (Herzgwächse, Four Orchestral Songs) are superior to that of Pierrot, which was made at the Academy of Arts and Letters, and that of the Chamber Symphony, which was recorded at the Recital Hall of SUNY Purchase.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : 73:53 - DDD - Enregistré au Studio n° 1 de Abbey Road à Londres en mai 1994 (Herzgewächse) et en juillet à octobre 1998 (4 Lieder), à l'Académie Américaine des Arts et Lettres à New York en 1997 (Pierrot ), et au Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Suny Purchase, New York le 16 septembre 1998 (symphonie) - Notes en anglais & allemand
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:37
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Robert Craft
- Composer: Arnold Schönberg
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Allemagne
- Genre: Klassiek Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus)
- Period: Modern Style
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
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