Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Op4; String quartet No2

On this CD:

1. Verklärte Nacht, for string sextet, Op. 4
Composed by Arnold Schoenberg
Performed by I Musici de Montreal with Alain Aubut, Suzanne Careau, Eleonora Turovsky
Conducted by Yuli Turovsky

2. String Quartet No. 2, for soprano & string quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 10
Composed by Arnold Schoenberg
Performed by I Musici de Montreal with Nadia Pelle
Conducted by Yuli Turovsky

3. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, for narrator, piano & strings, Op. 41
Composed by Arnold Schoenberg
Performed by I Musici de Montreal with Marc-Andre Hamelin, Kevin McMillan
Conducted by Yuli Turovsky

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Verklärte Nacht (1899) only hints at the atonal revolution that's to come in Schoenberg's music. Verklärte Nacht began as a string sextet, then was arranged for soprano and string orchestra in 1917--the version here. The work reflects the influence Wagnerian Romanticism had on the young composer, and is still mostly tonal. His String Quartet No. 2 (1907-08) is part of the shift away from tonality; there are sections of clashing tonalities, and the last movement does not have a key signature. Ode To Napoleon (1942) is for speaker, piano, and string orchestra. It uses a 12-tone row but allows for tonality in places. A good cross-section. --Paul Cook

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Op4; String quartet No2, Music, Alain Aubut, Arnold Schoenberg, Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal, Marc-André Hamelin, Nadia Pelle, Suzanne Careau, Eleonora Turovsky, Chamber, Classical, Classical Music, Miscellaneous, Music with Spoken Words, Quartet for Four String Instruments, Sextet for Six String Instruments

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Op4; String quartet No2
Average customer rating:

"denis" is pathetically mediocre

this cd's musical content is pathetically mediocre

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Op4; String quartet No2

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
Sextets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by Schoenberg | Schoenberg, Arnold | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000000AQN
Release Date: 1993-03-15

Tracks:

Transfigured Night, Op.4
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: I. Massig (Moderato)
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: II. Sehr rasch
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: III. Litanei: Langsam
Str Qt No.2 Op.10: IV. Enttruckung: Sehr langsam
Ode to Napoleon Op.41

Amazon.com

Verklärte Nacht (1899) only hints at the atonal revolution that's to come in Schoenberg's music. Verklärte Nacht began as a string sextet, then was arranged for soprano and string orchestra in 1917--the version here. The work reflects the influence Wagnerian Romanticism had on the young composer, and is still mostly tonal. His String Quartet No. 2 (1907-08) is part of the shift away from tonality; there are sections of clashing tonalities, and the last movement does not have a key signature. Ode To Napoleon (1942) is for speaker, piano, and string orchestra. It uses a 12-tone row but allows for tonality in places. A good cross-section. --Paul Cook

Customer Reviews:

"denis" is pathetically mediocre.......1999-12-11

For decades spoil sports like "denisdiderot" below have been attacking Schoenberg's 12 tone system, saying, for example, that his music has no relation to "natural acoustics" and to the way "human beings make sense of sound". Well, last I checked, I'm a human being, one who happens to love this music, and I join musicians and music enthusiasts around the globe in praise of Schoenberg's work. The music of a "mediocre musical talent" doesn't last 50 years after his death. A talentless hack is forgotten. Schoenberg hasn't been forgotten and never will be. I dare say, though the real Denis Diderot is certainly remembered, the person below using Diderot's name as an alias will be forgotten shortly after his own death. Schoenberg will live on in the hearts and minds of musicians and music lovers everywhere as he does today.

Schoenberg's music is not for everyone, but then there's a lot in music that isn't for everyone. Try to accept that, though you may not connect with this composer, there are many who honestly do, and you may be missing something.

this cd's musical content is pathetically mediocre.......1999-03-26

the music contained on this cd is proof enough in and of itself that Arnold Schoenberg was a mediocre musical talent, and turned to composing in an alienist atonal style only after he could plainly see that he could not compete on tonal musical grounds with the likes of strauss, pfitzner, schreker, ravel, debussy, and the like. the man craved attention and success, and most of all, "historical significance" for himself, and therefore devised a system of composing that purposefully could not be understood, thus setting himself up as a pretended misunderstood "genius" in the romantic sense, and claiming that anyone who cried foul regarding his music was simply not sophisticated enough to comprehend his noise. Then he created a rigid mathematical system of organizing tones with no relation whatsoever to natural acoustics or the way human beings make sense of sound. If his ludicrous communistic regimentation of musical tones is not enough to prove that Schoenberg was a musical mediocrity at best, or incompetent at worst, then just listen to the garbage contained on this cd for confirmation.

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