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Anton Webern made a transcription of Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie Op.9 in 1923 for the same forces as Pierrot Lunaire. This miniature orchestra, consisting of just two wind instruments (flute, clarinet), two string instruments (violin, cello) and a piano, 'preserves great clarity in the polyphonic line'. 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Each of these composers redefined 20th-century music in a highly personal way, and the works recorded here share a connection to the United States which one would perhaps not expect right away from these European master composers. While Ravel and Schoenberg’s piano concertos provide the most original and colourful 20th-century contributions to this genre, Messiaen employs a similar scoring to express his profound reverence for nature in Oiseaux exotiques. These challenging and multifarious scores fit Piemontesi, Nott and the orchestra like a glove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Piemontesi is among the most-cherished pianists of our age, and presents the third fruit of his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE, having released the acclaimed Schubert - Last Piano Sonatas (2019) and Bach Nostalghia (2021). The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is one of the world’s most respected orchestras with a vast PENTATONE discography. 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Beltà poi che t'assenti    \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavos Festival Kammerchor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDalbavie: Palimpseste für Flöte, Klarinette, Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier    \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eÀgnes Vass, flute\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoonas Ahonen, piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDickkopf: Paris\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavos Festival Männerchor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDISC 5:\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLily Francis, violin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFestival Orchestra \/ Willem de Bordes, conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnescu: Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: No. 1 in A Major \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJonian-Ilias Kadesha, violin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFestival Orchestra \/ Daniel Bard, concert master\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDISC 6:\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1 \"Ghost\"  \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCandida Thompson, violin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eXenia Jankovic, cello\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaolo Giacometti, piano\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnescu: Octet in C Major, Op. 7\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaniel Bard, violin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDISC 7:\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227    \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBritten: Hymn to St. Caecilia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGabrieli Consort \u0026amp; Players\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaul McCreesh, conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDISC 8:\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626    \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElgar: They Are at Rest\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGabrieli Consort \u0026amp; Players\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaul McCreesh, conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDISC 9:\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHaydn: Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Hob. 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Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht needs no introduction, but far rarer is Oscar Fried’s contemporaneous setting of the same poem. Composed in 1901 for soloists and orchestra, Fried’s version is a true setting of (as opposed to Schoenberg’s reflection on) the text by Richard Dehmel. Lehár wrote Fieber in 1915 as the closing part of his song cycle Aus eiserner Zeit – he then made the orchestral setting a year later. Korngold’s Lieder des Abschieds (Songs of Farewell) date from the early 1920s, whilst he was still in Vienna, and shortly after he had completed the opera Die tote Stadt. 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Preceded by Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene, Op. 34 (1930), Zemlinsky’s Romantic score is full of psychological intrigue. Is Der Zwerg a critique of society’s superficiality? Is it the composer’s self-portrait in his doomed affair with Alma Schindler? Director Tobias Kratzer’s stunning, transparent production creates a space in which each character is thrown into sharp relief in this ‘fine, noble and melancholy work’. 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Its first recordings for American Columbia, all included here, were dedicated to the works of Alban Berg and Béla Bartók (then only recently deceased), as well as to Arnold Schoenberg (still very much alive), and to active American composers including William Schuman. But the heart of this release comprising 16 newly mastered CDs and also featuring works by Mozart, Ravel, Webern, Milhaud, Copland, Peter Mennin, Alexei Haieff and Andrew Imbrie, are three discs containing the premiere of Béla Bartók’s six quartets on records, which were set down in 1949. They appeared on LP and 78s the following year, bringing the Juilliard Quartet its first real celebrity. Recorded on 78-rpm shellacs rather than on tape, this path-breaking set thus consists of live, unedited performances. When reissued some years ago on CD – the only portion of the new Sony Classical box set ever to have appeared before on silver discs – it was rapturously praised in Fanfare magazine for “its joy of discovery, which remains completely fresh and vivid” even though numerous other traversals of the Bartók cycle had appeared in the meantime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother Juilliard milestone was the premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s four quartets on records, set down in 1951–52. At last, all these historic Juilliard String Quartet recordings are available to today’s music lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[An] engrossing 16-disc box set of [the Juilliard Quartet's] earliest recordings for the Columbia label, many appearing on disc for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat other quartet of that era would have made its recorded debut not with standard repertoire but with a cantata by Darius Milhaud, written just a few years before? There are works here by composers both renowned (Berg, Webern, Copland) and virtually forgotten (Peter Mennin, Alexei Haieff), all rendered in the Juilliard’s trademark sound: X-ray clear and devoid of schmaltz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo complete cycles anchor the set: Bartok (the first recording of his six quartets) and Schoenberg. Given how unfamiliar these works were at the time, the Juilliard’s confidence and authority is stunning. Subsequent recordings may have disclosed other aspects of this repertory, but that does not dampen the freshness and sense of discovery audible here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf patience is a virtue, then fans of the Juilliard String Quartet’s earliest records must be saints. 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Musically they are wildly different, however; Pelleas, which Schoenberg wrote in his late twenties, is the epitome of his late romantic style, indebted to Richard Strauss. Erwartung (his first work for the stage) was written after his conversion to atonality. Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelleas et Melisande fired the imaginations of several of the greatest composers of the time. Debussy began writing his opera almost immediately after its publication in 1892, and within a decade or so Faure and Sibelius had created elaborate incidental scores for different stage productions of the play. Schoenberg composed his tone poem in 1902 – 03, for a large-scale (Straussian) orchestra. Schoenberg seems to have put himself into a state of free association to write Erwartung, which he completed in just seventeen days in August 1909. ‘In Erwartung, the aim is to represent in slow motion everything that occurs during a single second of maximum spiritual excitement, stretching it out to half an hour’, he wrote. Not only the first solo opera, this is perhaps also the first cinematic one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEW:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGardner keeps the music’s sumptuousness on a tight rein, favouring faster tempi than most other interpreters. But he makes sure the shape of the huge musical structure is never compromised, and there’s no lack of tonal weight when required from the Bergen Philharmonic. Jakubiak is a compelling soprano soloist too, far less histrionic and squally than some.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– Guardian (UK)","brand":"Chandos","offers":[{"title":"SACD","offer_id":46013478895850,"sku":"095115519820","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3812199-2561379.jpg?v=1786717176"},{"product_id":"kammersymphonie","title":"Kammersymphonie","description":"Kammersymphonie presents a compelling journey through the fractured soundscape of early 20th-century Europe, brought to life by the acclaimed ensemble Fin du Temps. This release brings together three landmark chamber works by Arnold Schoenberg, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Hindemith, composers who each responded in radically different ways to a period of intense artistic, political, and social upheaval.    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