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Composer:
Arnold Schoenberg

Artist(s):
Amalie Malling
Edwin Paling

Conductor:
Matthias Bamert

Background: Even today there are many who find Schoenberg's work, with its twelve-tone serialism, violent and incomprehensible. However, neither of the works on this disc is in the enfants terrible style of the Second Viennese School. Pelleas und Melisande was written in the early 1900s, prior to Schoenberg's experimentation with atonality, and is a glorious example of post-Wagnerian romanticism.

The Piano Concerto is a much later work, dating from the World War II years, but though it is based on a twelve-note series, it is far less forbidding, even at first hearing, than many of Schoenberg's serial compositions. The style of piano writing often looks back to the nineteenth century, and many of the tunes are distinctly singable, with hints of traditional harmony. In such densely scored works as these, recording quality is paramount and the present recordings are famed for their bright, clean sound, enabling the orchestral detail to be sharply delineated.

CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10285X
RECORD LABEL: Chandos Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 5.86 including VAT, or £ 5.10 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-Jan-2005

COMPOSER: Arnold Schoenberg
TRACKS: Pelleas und Melisande op.5 - Symphonic Poem fo Orchestra. Piano Concerto op.42.
ORCHESTRA: Scottish National Orchestra and Danish National Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Matthias Bamert and Michael Schonwandt
ARTISTS: Amalie Malling   Edwin Paling    

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