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Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No.2, etc | Naxos 8557526

Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No.2, etc

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557526

Barcode: 0747313252626

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 31st March 2008

Contents

Artists

Mark Beesley (bass)
Simon Joly Chorale
New York Woodwind Quintet
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Craft

Works

Schoenberg, Arnold

Chamber Symphony no.2, op.38
Die gluckliche Hand, op.18
Wind Quintet, op.26

Artists

Mark Beesley (bass)
Simon Joly Chorale
New York Woodwind Quintet
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Craft

About

The little-known Second Chamber Symphony ought to be the most popular of Schoenberg’s later masterpieces. Neither “atonal” nor “twelve-tone”, it contrasts a lush, melodious, dramatic first movement with a rapid and richly polyphonic second movement.

Die glückliche Hand is a pantomime for two silent actors and one solo singer, “the Man”. The music is very compressed, and its two middle scenes, apart from the lines by the Man, are purely orchestral.

Realising that a work of 38 minutes in atonal idiom for five winds might be less audience-friendly than any of his music heretofore, Schoenberg imparted his Wind Quintet with a display of instrumental virtuosity that surpassed anything even he had ever attempted.

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