Breaking Free: The Inventor
Donald Macleod celebrates Schoenberg's sheer inventiveness, including the development of the 12-tone compositional method.
Donald Macleod explores Schoenberg's life from five different viewpoints. Part of Radio 3's season: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music.
Today he celebrates Schoenberg's sheer inventiveness, including the development of the 12-tone compositional method.
Schoenberg, seen by many as the inventor of modern music, is perhaps best known as the creator of the twelve-tone method of composition. But it was an idea whose development he kept secret, until revealing it to his students in the 1920s. Donald traces the origins of the method which came to define the composer for many, from Schoenberg's early imitative work, through his exploration of the fullest possible romanticism, to the method's maturation during the 1930s.
Ei, du L眉tte
Simon Joly Chorale
Robert Craft, Conductor
Gurreleider, Final Part: Behold, the Sun.
Bergen Philharmonic Choir
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, Conductor
Jane Grey, Op 12 No 1
Melanie Diener, Soprano
Urs Liska, Piano
Five Piano Pieces, Op 23 (Sehr Langsam; Waltzer)
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
Variations for Orchestra, Op 31
CBSO
Simon Rattle, Conductor
Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op 47 (Scherzando)
Ulf Wallin, Violin
Roland Pontinen, Piano
Part of Radio 3's "Breaking Free - the minds that changed music", exploring the music of the Second Viennese School.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Ei du Lutte
Choir: Simon Joly Chorale. Conductor: Robert Craft.- Naxos: 8.557525.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Gurrelieder - Seht die Sonne
Orchestra: Gothenburg S O.. Choir: Bergen Filharmoniske Kor. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Chandos CHSA51722.
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Arnold Schoenberg
2 Ballads Op 12 - Jane Grey
Performer: Urs Liska. Singer: Melanie Diener.- Capriccio: 7120.
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Arnold Schoenberg
5 Pieces Op 23 - Sehr langsam
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 423-249-2.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Variations Op.31
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI:7243 5 55212 2 4.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Phantasy Op.47
Performer: Ulf Wallin. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.- BIS : CD-1407.
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