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It's easy to consider the 12-tone movement's instigators--Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg--as iconoclasts who sought to shatter the late-Romantic mold into harsher, more scraping fractal units. But this CD offers an opportunity to see how the 12-tone triumvirate honored the past. At the most basic level, they honored the waltzes of Johann Strauss by simply reorchestrating them. On a side note, they did this to finance the very organization founded to upend the stodgy orchestral traditions of late Romanticism. These Strauss waltzes appear here as rearranged, harmonically telescoped delights. Schoenberg's "Kaiserwalzer" has interludes that foreshadow minimalism and still ring beautifully. Webern's "Schatzwalzer" finds tones between tones in a tension-building escalation that seems everywhere recursively dancing across the floor. Much of this is thanks to pianist Leonore Aumaier's crisp attack and the Vienna String Quintet's radiant warmth, especially in the violins. Then there are the two add-ons: Schoenberg's pretty "Weihnachtsmusik," a short, shimmering quintet that shows nary a hint of the revolution in his compositional mind, and Theodor Hermann Leschetitzky's "Variations for String Quartet," a sometimes thrillingly playful work that fits perfectly here. --Andrew Bartlett
| ARTIST: | Norbert Taubl, Theodor Hermann Leschetizky, Arnold Schoenberg, Johann II Strauss, Anton Webern, Vadim Vasilykov, Wolfgang Schultz, Wolfgang Schulz, Leonore Aumaier |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Cpo Records |
| TYPE: | Chamber, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Mixed Chamber Ensemble with Keyboard, Orchestral, Orchestral & Symphonic, Waltz for Orchestra |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Kraiserwalzer, Schatzwalzer, Rosen aus dem Suden, Wein, Weib und Gesang, Weihnachtsmusik, Var for Str Qt |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 761203958825 |
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A Favorite Disc... This is a wonderful disc featuring Strauss waltzes as transcribed for small ensemble by members of the Second Viennese School. The occasion was for a benefit concert in the Spring of 1921 for the Society for the Private Performance of Music in Vienna. The goal of the Society was to properly present Modern music to an appreciative audience of members. <
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>These are tasty realizations of echt-Viennese music. Nice cover art by Van Gogh, as well. As an added bonus, this disc features Schoenberg's Weihnachtsmusik (Musique de Noël--i.e., Christmas Music) a beautiful piece in the pure tonal key of C major. <
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>It should be remembered that the waltz was a revolutionary occurrence in cultural/social history: it permitted close embrace of partners in a whirling, sexually charged atmosphere. Previous bourgeoise dancing had consisted of quadrilles and such as involved little touching between dancers who were not really partners as they danced with others together.