SCHOENBERG, A.: Violin Concerto / Ode to Napoleon / A Survivor from Warsaw (Craft) (Schoenberg, Vol. 10)
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overview
This volume of Robert Craft’s acclaimed Schoenberg series presents the composer’s favourite of his own orchestral works, the Violin Concerto. Conceived in grand style and dedicated to his ‘dear friend and fellow warrior’ Webern, it draws on the techniques of melodic variation and development that Schoenberg so admired in Brahms’ music to reach a majestic conclusion. In the other shorter works, written during or after World War II, Schoenberg uses striking vocal and instrumental combinations to create intensely moving and dramatic music. De Profundis was Schoenberg’s last completed composition.
tracks
A Survivor from Warsaw, for narrator, male chorus & orchestra, Op. 46
Prelude, for wordless chorus & orchestra (for collaborative cantata 'Genesis Suite'), Op. 44
Dreimal tausend Jahre, for chorus, Op. 50a
De Profundis, for chorus, Op. 50b
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, for narrator, piano & strings, Op. 41
Violin Concerto, Op. 36: Poco allegro - Vivace
Violin Concerto, Op. 36: Andante grazioso
Violin Concerto, Op. 36: Finale: Allegro