Schonberg Ensemble - Schonberg Ensemble Edition: A Century Of Music In Perspective (2006) [22CD Box Set]
BAND/ARTIST: Schonberg Ensemble
- Title: Schonberg Ensemble Edition: A Century Of Music In Perspective
- Year Of Release: 2006
- Label: Etcetera [KTC 9000]
- Genre: Classical, Contemporary
- Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue, log, scans)
- Total Time: 23:19:52
- Total Size: 7,09 GB (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
The Amsterdam-based Schoenberg Ensemble ranks alongside the London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Modern from Frankfurt and Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris as one of Europe's most distinguished new-music groups. What began in 1974 when seven student instrumentalists got together with their teacher, Reinbert de Leeuw, to perform Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire has steadily diversified. At first, the group concentrated on the music of the Second Viennese School, but gradually its scope expanded: now the Schoenberg Ensemble has a core lineup of 14 musicians and a repertoire that stretches from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
This mammoth retrospective set is a treasure trove of the ensemble's performances from the last 20 years, as well as an endlessly fascinating journey through the music of the 20th century. Many of the tracks derive from live recordings made by Dutch radio, others are studio sessions rescued from discs that have either been deleted after a brief life in the catalogue, or were never commercially released. The playing is fiercely concentrated and precise; De Leeuw conducts most of the performances in his typically no-nonsense way, but Oliver Knussen takes charge of the concert performance of Henze's opera Elegy for Young Lovers, as well as works by Percy Grainger and Ruth Crawford Seeger. For some works that require a larger band, the Ensemble joins forces with their fellow Amsterdamers of the Asko Ensemble.
The collection begins where the ensemble began, with works from the mainspring of modernism - Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony and Pierrot Lunaire (a performance from 1988 with the marvellous German actress Barbara Sukowa as reciter), as well as a collection of Webern's songs with soprano Dorothy Dorow. There follow discs devoted to Mahler and Zemlinsky, Janacek, Stravinsky and Milhaud (works from the 1920s), as well as Knussen's quirky mixture of Crawford Seeger and Grainger. Then it's on to the second half of the century with Boulez, Stockhausen, Kurtag (including his extraordinary Beckett setting What is the Word?), Rihm, an all-Italian disc and a Ligeti collection that includes Melodien and the Violin Concerto. De Leeuw's own enthusiasms show up in discs of Ustvolskaya, Gubaidulina, Isang Yun, and Louis Andriessen's superbly austere setting of St Augustine, De Tijd. The final disc is devoted to contemporary Dutch composers including Michel Van der Aa and Elmer Schoenberger, who has also written the magnificent 628-page book, bilingual in Dutch and English, that accompanies the set.
Tracks:
Vol. 01
Arnold Schönberg - Kammersymphonie I • Lied der Waldtaube (Gurrelieder) • Drei Stücke für Kammerorchester • Pierrot lunaire • Der Wunsch des Liebhabers
Vol. 02
Anton Webern - Complete Vocal Chamber Works
Vol. 03
Gustav Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen • Kindertotenlieder
Alexander Zemlinsky - Maeterlinck Gesänge
Karol Szymanowski - Słopiewnie
Vol. 04
Leoš Janáček - The Diary of One Who Disappeared • Songs of Hradcány • Říkadla
Vol. 05
Igor Stravinsky - Mass • Cantata • Introitus • Abraham and Isaac
Vol. 06
Darius Milhaud - Les Malheurs d'Orphée • La Création du monde • Saudades do Brazil
Vol. 07
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Charles Seeger
Percy Grainger
Vol. 08
Olivier Messiaen - Trois petites liturgies de la Présence divine
Pierre Boulez - Rituel
Vol. 09
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen
Vol. 10
György Ligeti - Melodien • Violin Concerto • Aventures • Nouvelles aventures
Vol. 11 (2 CD)
Hans Werner Henze - Elegy for Young Lovers
Vol. 13
Isang Yun - Kammerkonzert I • Pièce concertante • Distanzen • Quartett
Vol. 14
György Kurtág - Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Trusova • Grabstein für Stephan • What is the Word
Vol. 15
Luigi Dallapiccola - Canti di Prigionia
Bruno Maderna - Tre liriche Greche
Luigi Nono - Canciones a Guiomar
Luciano Berio - Corale
Luca Francesconi - Inquieta limina
Vol. 16
Galina Ustvolskaya - Octet • Trio • Sonata for Violin and Piano
Vol. 17
Sofia Gubaidulina - Stimmen…verstummen… • Now Always Snow
Vol. 18
Nikolay Obukhov - Four Balmont Songs
Alexander Raskatov - The Last Freedom
Vladimir Tarnopolski - Foucault's Pendulum
Vol. 20
Louis Andriessen - De Tijd
Vol. 22
Jan van Vlijmen - Inferno
Jan van de Putte - Es schweigt
Vol. 23
John Adams - Chamber Symphony • Scratchband
Duke Ellington - The Tattooed Bride
George Antheil - Ballet mécanique
Vol. 24
Wolfgang Rihm - Pol - Kolchis - Nucleus • Abschiedsstücke • Erscheinung • Die Stücke des Sängers • Chiffre I
Vol. 25
Elmer Schönberger - Dovemansoren
Alexander Skryabin/Klaas de Vries - Vers la flamme/Eclips
Michel van der Aa - Attach
Guus Janssen - Klotz
This mammoth retrospective set is a treasure trove of the ensemble's performances from the last 20 years, as well as an endlessly fascinating journey through the music of the 20th century. Many of the tracks derive from live recordings made by Dutch radio, others are studio sessions rescued from discs that have either been deleted after a brief life in the catalogue, or were never commercially released. The playing is fiercely concentrated and precise; De Leeuw conducts most of the performances in his typically no-nonsense way, but Oliver Knussen takes charge of the concert performance of Henze's opera Elegy for Young Lovers, as well as works by Percy Grainger and Ruth Crawford Seeger. For some works that require a larger band, the Ensemble joins forces with their fellow Amsterdamers of the Asko Ensemble.
The collection begins where the ensemble began, with works from the mainspring of modernism - Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony and Pierrot Lunaire (a performance from 1988 with the marvellous German actress Barbara Sukowa as reciter), as well as a collection of Webern's songs with soprano Dorothy Dorow. There follow discs devoted to Mahler and Zemlinsky, Janacek, Stravinsky and Milhaud (works from the 1920s), as well as Knussen's quirky mixture of Crawford Seeger and Grainger. Then it's on to the second half of the century with Boulez, Stockhausen, Kurtag (including his extraordinary Beckett setting What is the Word?), Rihm, an all-Italian disc and a Ligeti collection that includes Melodien and the Violin Concerto. De Leeuw's own enthusiasms show up in discs of Ustvolskaya, Gubaidulina, Isang Yun, and Louis Andriessen's superbly austere setting of St Augustine, De Tijd. The final disc is devoted to contemporary Dutch composers including Michel Van der Aa and Elmer Schoenberger, who has also written the magnificent 628-page book, bilingual in Dutch and English, that accompanies the set.
Tracks:
Vol. 01
Arnold Schönberg - Kammersymphonie I • Lied der Waldtaube (Gurrelieder) • Drei Stücke für Kammerorchester • Pierrot lunaire • Der Wunsch des Liebhabers
Vol. 02
Anton Webern - Complete Vocal Chamber Works
Vol. 03
Gustav Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen • Kindertotenlieder
Alexander Zemlinsky - Maeterlinck Gesänge
Karol Szymanowski - Słopiewnie
Vol. 04
Leoš Janáček - The Diary of One Who Disappeared • Songs of Hradcány • Říkadla
Vol. 05
Igor Stravinsky - Mass • Cantata • Introitus • Abraham and Isaac
Vol. 06
Darius Milhaud - Les Malheurs d'Orphée • La Création du monde • Saudades do Brazil
Vol. 07
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Charles Seeger
Percy Grainger
Vol. 08
Olivier Messiaen - Trois petites liturgies de la Présence divine
Pierre Boulez - Rituel
Vol. 09
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen
Vol. 10
György Ligeti - Melodien • Violin Concerto • Aventures • Nouvelles aventures
Vol. 11 (2 CD)
Hans Werner Henze - Elegy for Young Lovers
Vol. 13
Isang Yun - Kammerkonzert I • Pièce concertante • Distanzen • Quartett
Vol. 14
György Kurtág - Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Trusova • Grabstein für Stephan • What is the Word
Vol. 15
Luigi Dallapiccola - Canti di Prigionia
Bruno Maderna - Tre liriche Greche
Luigi Nono - Canciones a Guiomar
Luciano Berio - Corale
Luca Francesconi - Inquieta limina
Vol. 16
Galina Ustvolskaya - Octet • Trio • Sonata for Violin and Piano
Vol. 17
Sofia Gubaidulina - Stimmen…verstummen… • Now Always Snow
Vol. 18
Nikolay Obukhov - Four Balmont Songs
Alexander Raskatov - The Last Freedom
Vladimir Tarnopolski - Foucault's Pendulum
Vol. 20
Louis Andriessen - De Tijd
Vol. 22
Jan van Vlijmen - Inferno
Jan van de Putte - Es schweigt
Vol. 23
John Adams - Chamber Symphony • Scratchband
Duke Ellington - The Tattooed Bride
George Antheil - Ballet mécanique
Vol. 24
Wolfgang Rihm - Pol - Kolchis - Nucleus • Abschiedsstücke • Erscheinung • Die Stücke des Sängers • Chiffre I
Vol. 25
Elmer Schönberger - Dovemansoren
Alexander Skryabin/Klaas de Vries - Vers la flamme/Eclips
Michel van der Aa - Attach
Guus Janssen - Klotz
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