Second Viennese School
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Composer or Director: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern
Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 6/1987
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: EL169588-4
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(5) Pieces |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Jungen Deutschen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Peter Giulke, Conductor |
String Quartet No. 2 |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Eva Csapó, Soprano Jungen Deutschen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Peter Giulke, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern
Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 6/1987
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: EL169588-1
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(5) Pieces |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Jungen Deutschen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Peter Giulke, Conductor |
String Quartet No. 2 |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Eva Csapó, Soprano Jungen Deutschen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Peter Giulke, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern
Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 6/1987
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 56
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDC7 47923-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(5) Pieces |
Anton Webern, Composer
Anton Webern, Composer Jungen Deutschen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Peter Giulke, Conductor |
String Quartet No. 2 |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Eva Csapó, Soprano Jungen Deutschen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Peter Giulke, Conductor |
Author: Arnold Whittall
It is also Webern's Five Movements which most effectively survive translation from string quartet to string orchestra, the vital contrast of texture enhanced rather than blurred. It receives the best performance, too; dramatic, expressive, shaped by the conductor in a way that allows immediacy its full impact without losing sight of larger goals.
The Berg and Schoenberg are less convincingly done. The fuller textures of the Lyric Suite movements are too solid in this rather murky recording, so that, in the allegro, the ''Trio estatico'' quite fails to erupt from its shadowy surroundings as it should. Stodginess is also prevalent in the Schoenberg, to an extent that calls into question the value of such arrangements of delicately balanced, richly contrapuntal chamber textures. At its worst, there is a rhetorical exaggeration in this interpretation completely at odds with the often pugnacious vigour of the original. The coda to the scherzo lacks bite, that of the finale lacks genuine repose. As for Eva Csapo, I would like to hear her perform the work with a quartet. The result would surely be less stressful, and a better recorded balance between singer and players easier to achieve. Here, backwardly placed, she sounds strained, with insufficient power in the lower register. The orchestra is evidently an able group of young players: plenty of more suitable works await their attention.'
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