Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2 (Op. 10) & Five Pieces for Orchestra (Op. 16)
Quatuor Parisii, soprano Rachel Nicholls and Stephen Johnson explore Schoenberg's extraordinary Second String Quartet. Stephen also looks at Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra.
Recorded in front of an audience at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge with the Quatuor Parisii and the soprano Rachel Nicholls, Stephen Johnson explores the ideas behind one of Arnold Schoenberg's most extraordinary pieces, the Second String Quartet, in which the composer takes the listener on a journey from the music of late romanticism to the expressionism of the early twentieth century. Stephen also looks at Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Quartet for strings no. 2 (Op.10) with soprano
Performers: Parisii String Quartet, Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
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Arnold Schoenberg
Five Pieces for Orchestra (Op. 16)
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- Sun 13 May 2007 17:00麻豆社 Radio 3