The complete works for piano, including the concerto, played with great sensitivity and elan! If more people had played Schoenberg like this in the early days, you'd see his music appearing on more recital programs. Amazon.com
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6.9.24
SCHOENBERG : Complete Piano Works (Alexei Lubimov · Estonian SSO · Neeme Järvi) (2008) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
7.3.22
SCHOENBERG : Piano Concerto; Klavierstücke, Op. 11 & Op. 19, BERG : Sonata, Op. 1, WEBERN : Variations, Op. 27 (Uchida-Boulez) (2001) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
Concerto For Piano, Op. 42 = Klavierkonzert = Concerto Pour Piano (19:50)
Anton Webern
Variations, Op 27 (7:57)
Arnold Schoenberg
Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 = Three Piano Pieces = Trois Pièces Pour Piano (13:57)
Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 = Six Little Piano Pieces = Six Petites Pièces Pour Piano (7:42)
Alban Berg
Piano Sonata, Op. 1 = Klaviersonate = Sonate Pour Piano 12:57
Piano [Steinway & Sons] – Mitsuko Uchida
Conductor – Pierre Boulez *
MAURIZIO POLLINI — Maurizio Pollini Edition (2002) 13CD | APE (image+.cue), lossless
Celebrating his 60th birthday (5 January 2002) and a 30-year artistic
collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, the Maurizio Pollini Edition presents a wide-ranging series of DG exclusive artist's classic recordings, personally selected and approved by the Maestro himself.
The Edition comprises 12 single CDs, plus a sensational bonus CD. Almost all the compilations are new, and cover all aspects of Pollini's recording career. There are three CDs of Classical and Romantic concertos, 5 CDs are devoted to the masters of Romantic solo music, and 4 CDs given over to modern repertoire, a central component of Pollini's artistic credo.
What is on the bonus CD? There are two concerto recordings released for the first time internationally. The first is Chopin's First Piano Concerto, taped live at the final concert of the 1960 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1960, where Pollini was the sensational winner at the age of 18. The second is the Schumann Piano Concerto, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 1974 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan.
CD 1: Mozart :
Piano Concerto No.23 / Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor"
Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Bohm
CD 2:
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.3 & 4
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
CD 3: Schumann:
Piano Concerto Op.54 / Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
CD 4: Beethoven :
Piano Sonatas Op.27 No.1 & 2, Op.31 No.2 & Op.53
CD 5: Beethoven :
Piano Sonatas Op.106 "Hammerklavier" & Op.111
CD 6: Schubert :
Sonata in A major D959; Allegretto in C minor D915; 3 Klavierstucke
CD 7: Chopin :
12 Etudes Op.25; Sonata in B flat minor Op.35; Berceuse in D flat, Op.57
CD 8: Schumann :
Fantasy in C; Arabesque / Liszt: Sonata in B minor; La lugubre gondola
CD 9: Debussy :
12 Etudes / Boulez: Sonata No.2
Maurizio Pollini
CD 10: Stravinsky :
3 Dances from Petrushka / Bartok: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2
Maurizio Pollini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
CD 11: Schoenberg :
Piano Works / Webern: Variations Op.27
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
CD 12: Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz; ....Sofferte onde serene....for piano
and magnetic tape / Manzoni: Masse: Omaggio a Edgar Varese
Slavka Taskova, Maurizio Pollini, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,
Claudio Abbado
CD 13: Chopin :
Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11 / Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Maurizio Pollini, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerzy Katlewicz
Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
10.1.21
19.12.19
SCHOENBERG : Five Pieces for Orchestra; Cello Concerto (after Monn); Piano Quartet (Brahms orch. Schoenberg) 2006 / FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
In contrast, Schoenberg, as Stravinsky, arguably the two compositional giants of the twentieth century, often looked to the past for inspiration, and the remaining two compositions on this disc are representatives of this aspect of Schoenberg's work.
The cello concerto is based upon a keyboard concerto by Georg Matthias Monn, an eighteenth century Austrian composer and organist. Schoenberg "freely adapted" and overlaid Monn's ideas with additional counterpoint and harmonies characteristic of the late nineteenth century. Although originally presented to Pablo Casals for its premiere, Casals deemed it too difficult; it was later first publicly performed by Emanuel Feuermann. Here cellist Fred Sherry admirably negotiates the cello part.
The Brahms Piano Quartet is a work Schoenberg had performed as both violist and cellist. Because he felt the piano part dominated the string parts, he arranged it for orchestra, without adding anything of substance, so that the string parts would be more prominent.
Conductor Robert Craft is a specialist in the works of Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, and Varèse and his performances of Schoenberg's works were pioneering in their day. These reissues are more interesting for the cello concerto and the Brahms quartet, which are rarely recorded. Better recorded performances of the Five Pieces are available. by Jeffrey K. Chase
SCHOENBERG : Serenade; Variations, Op. 31; Bach Orchestrations (2006) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
SCHOENBERG : Six a Capella Mixes Choruses (2005) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless
SCHOENBERG : Violin Concerto; A Survivor from Warsaw (2008) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
A Survivor from Warsaw is surely overwhelming. With narrator David Wilson-Johnson taking the dramatic lead and the Philharmonia Orchestra providing the accompaniment, Craft's performance is nerve wracking. But when the Simon Joly Chorale enters at the climax, the effect only increases the intensity; it doesn't provide release from the horror. In the two a cappella settings, the chorale's articulation is precise and its intonation dead on, but again, while Craft's interpretation is frightening in its ferocious concentration, the climax is only more of the same. Wilson-Johnson returns for the Ode accompanied here by pianist Jeremy Denk and the Fred Sherry Quartet, but while his performance is sardonic and the instrumental ensemble's backing is brutal, the interpretation comes off as more snidely contemptuous than grandly indicting. The inclusion of the Prelude to Genesis from 1944, a piece written for an unmade film that was to depict the book of the Bible of the same name, is aesthetically of a piece with its contemporary works, with a dark and brooding opening climaxing in the creation of the world in a burst of chorale glory. And Craft's interpretation is again more successful in depicting dark than in creating light.
The program's odd man out is Schoenberg's 1934 Violin Concerto, a work composed in an earlier, entirely different, and much more genial musical world. Performed here with brilliance and élan by German violinist Rolf Schulte, the concerto is, relatively speaking for serial music, a lyrical work of vivacious virtuosity, showing Schoenberg at his most cheerfully neo-Brahmsian. Craft and the Philharmonia seem more relaxed here, particularly in the central Andante grazioso, and the finale's coda is suitably majestic.
In sum, while this disc may be mandatory for dedicated Schoenberg aficionados, only the heartiest of neophytes will want to sample anything except the Violin Concerto. Naxos' digital sound is clear and cool, but with an impressive sense of time and place. by James Leonard
SCHOENBERG : Six Songs for Soprano and Orchestra (2007) FLAC (tracks), lossless
SCHOENBERG : Gurre-Lieder (2004) 2CD / FLAC (tracks), lossless
Robert Craft believes. Craft knew Schoenberg in the late '40s and he has championed his music as a conductor and writer ever since. This 2001 recording is Craft's first Gurrelieder and he clearly loves the work. He lets the young composer sing in the work's surging lyricism and he lets the mature composer wail in the work's passionate excesses. Unfortunately, the singers also wail to excess. Stephen O'Mara is strong but sometimes not completely in control, and Melanie Diener is powerful but too often not altogether in tune. Ernst Haefliger is a mellifluous speaker, the Philharmonia Orchestra is a magnificent instrument, and the Simon Joly Chorale is a gargantuan ensemble. Naxos' digital sound is enormous and all-enveloping. by James Leonard
SCHOENBERG : Pelleas und Melisande; Erwartung (2008) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
SCHOENBERG : Pierrot Lunaire (2007) FLAC (tracks), lossless
SCHOENBERG : Chamber Symphony Nº 2; Die glückliche Hand; Wind Quintet, Op. 26 (2008) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
SCHOENBERG : Concerto for String Quartet; Lied der Waldtaube; The Book of the Hanging Gardens (2004) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
2.2.18
28.8.17
Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin (Version for Piano Duet) / Arnold Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 (Version for Piano Duet) [Kocsis-Hauser] Harmonia Mundi 1903021 / 1991 / FLAC
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