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Schoenberg: Piano Music & His 17 Fragments / Hirota

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Composer
SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD
Artist
Yoko Hirota
Format
CD
Label
Navona
Released
Mar 08, 2019
Catalog #
NV6214
UPC
896931005142

About

Although Arnold Schoenberg is often seen as a composer strictly concerned with pitch, his interests in timbre and sonority are ever-present in all five of his completed piano works. On Schoenberg Piano Music And His 17 Fragments, pianist Yoko Hirota performs three of Schoenberg’s completed works along with the 17 fragments that he never brought to completion. Hirota, praised as being “precise and keenly projective” and demonstrating the “highest level of proficiency,” is one of the leading interpreters of contemporary piano repertory, and she brings Schoenberg’s compositions to life with conviction. The three pieces that make up Drei Klavierstückes op.11 demonstrate Schoenberg’s burgeoning awareness that, as a corollary to the atonal structures he was beginning to use, more emotionally stringent use of the piano made for fertile musical ground. A close examination of the 17 fragments illustrates the composer’s preoccupation with and research into expressivity and color in his piano music — elements that are communicated clearly in Hirota’s performances. The evolution of Schoenberg’s musical thought can be clearly traced in the fragments, which were written throughout the first quarter of the 20th Century. The influence of Brahmsian piano writing is evident in the first four fragments; by the time he had composed the ninth, his demand for articulation had become predominant. The twelfth fragment contains a character dissimilar to both his previous works and fragments, in that the harmonic language is rather tonal and in the vein of Prokofiev’s works. Schoenberg’s priority was the expression of music in the creative process. Through this album, Hirota does not only demonstrates Schoenberg’s care for expressivity in music. She highlights the fact that other pianists should strive to present this color and expression in the performance of Schoenberg’s works, in order to deliver a performance that is both rich and true to the composer’s intent.

Tracklist 27 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Massig 03:44
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Massig
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  2. 2 No. 2. Massig 06:33
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Massig
    Duration
    06:33
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  3. 3 No. 3. Bewegt 02:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Bewegt
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  4. 4 No. 1. Sehr langsam 02:15
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1. Sehr langsam
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  5. 5 No. 2. Sehr rasch 01:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Sehr rasch
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  6. 6 No. 3. Langsam 03:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 3. Langsam
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  7. 7 No. 4. Schwungvoll 02:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 4. Schwungvoll
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  8. 8 No. 5. Walzer 03:17
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 5. Walzer
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  9. 9 Klavierstück, Op. 33a 02:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    Klavierstück, Op. 33a
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  10. 10 Klavierstück, Op. 33b 03:31
    Track
    10
    Title
    Klavierstück, Op. 33b
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  11. 11 No. 1. — 02:05
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. —
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  12. 12 No. 2. — 03:14
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. —
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  13. 13 No. 3. — 03:21
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 3. —
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  14. 14 No. 4. — 00:47
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 4. —
    Duration
    00:47
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  15. 15 No. 5. — 00:29
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 5. —
    Duration
    00:29
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  16. 16 No. 6. — 00:48
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 6. —
    Duration
    00:48
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  17. 17 No. 7. — 00:40
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 7. —
    Duration
    00:40
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  18. 18 No. 8. — 00:43
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 8. —
    Duration
    00:43
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  19. 19 No. 9. — 00:52
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 9. —
    Duration
    00:52
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  20. 20 No. 10. — 00:58
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 10. —
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  21. 21 No. 11. — 00:42
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 11. —
    Duration
    00:42
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  22. 22 No. 12. — 02:08
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 12. —
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  23. 23 No. 13. — 02:21
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 13. —
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  24. 24 No. 14. — 01:02
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 14. —
    Duration
    01:02
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  25. 25 No. 15. — 01:04
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 15. —
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  26. 26 No. 16. — 00:16
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 16. —
    Duration
    00:16
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota
  27. 27 No. 17. — 01:09
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 17. —
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Performer
    Yoko Hirota