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SCHOENBERG: 6 Orchestral Songs / Kol Nidre / Friede auf Erde |
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Composer: |
Arnold Schoenberg |
Artist: |
Wolfgang Schone, David Wilson-Johnson, Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Chris Merritt, Frances Jellard, Bernhard Schneider, Deborah Miles-Johnson, Irena Bespalovaite, Michael Ebbecke, Karl-Friedrich Durr, Ulrich Frisch, Sasa Vrabac, Stephan Storck, Emma Curtis, Alois Riedel, Kim Porter, Carolyn Foulkes, Eleanor Meynell, Stephen Bronk |
Conductor: |
John Neschling, Robert Craft, Roland Kluttig |
Choir: |
Polish Radio Choir, Stuttgart State Opera Chorus, Simon Joly Chorale, Sao Paulo Symphony Chorus, Stuttgart State Opera Children's Chorus |
Orchestra: |
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Stuttgart State Orchestra |
Lyricist: |
Arnold Schoenberg, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Heinrich Hart, Traditional, Klaus Groth, Petrarch |
Label: |
Naxos |
Catalogue No.: |
8.557525 |
Format: |
CD |
Barcode: |
0747313252527 |
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Volume VII of the Robert Craft Schoenberg Collection begins with the early Six Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, in which the obvious harmonic and melodic influence of Wagner is counterbalanced by a more personal instrumentation. For the originality and the musical beauties of Six Pieces for Male Chorus to be performed with accurate intonation, utmost clarity and balance of the polyphonic lines has taken three-quarters of a century. Kol Nidre is a little-known small-scale masterpiece. The excerpts from the ‘Golden Calf’ scene of Schoenberg’s unfinished opera Moses und Aron depict the sacrifice of the Young Girl and a quartet of Naked Virgins, followed by an orgy of destruction and suicide.
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