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David Atherton – Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg
30th Jul 2025
Our contemporary music guest-writer explores a 13-disc anthology of recordings from the London Sinfonietta, including the group's 1974 debut on Decca with Schoenberg's complete works for chamber ensemble.
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Claire Booth on Pierrot Portraits
26th Nov 2024
Ahead of her Wigmore Hall recital this Friday, the intrepid soprano discusses her second recording-contribution to Schoenberg's 150th anniversary year - an album which sets his Pierrot lunaire alongside other works inspired by the commedia dell'arte figure.
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Pierrot Portraits
Claire Booth (soprano), Ensemble 360
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Leonskaja celebrates the Second Viennese School
27th Sep 2024
Elisabeth Leonskaja's persuasive and engaging recital of piano works that are often misunderstood is an essential listen, whether mention of the Second Viennese School excites you or normally sends you running for the hills.
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Claire Booth on Schoenberg
10th Jun 2024
To mark the composer and polymath's 150th birthday, the soprano talks about her new album exploring his rich and varied song output, curated with pianist Christopher Glynn and themed around Schoenberg's Expressionist paintings.
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Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Transfigured
24th Oct 2023
The chamber ensemble's Artistic Director Tom Poster talks about their new album of works from the Second Viennese School - with a selection of songs from the cruelly truncated career of Alma Mahler in pride of place.
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A fin-de-siècle voyage with Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet
8th Sep 2023
The quartet - joined by Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou - go out on a high after nearly fifty years of music-making, with a programme of early twentieth-century works themed around journeying and longing.
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Berg, Webern and Schoenberg from the Heath Quartet
15th Jul 2022
The UK-based string quartet bring luminous clarity and beauty to three transitional works by the Second Viennese School, with soprano Carolyn Sampson joining them for Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2.
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Francesco Piemontesi performs works for piano and orchestra by Ravel, Messiaen, and Schoenberg
8th Jul 2022
The Swiss pianist is joined by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott for a dazzlingly characterful trio of performances.
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Verklärte Nacht from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
1st Jan 2021
Schoenberg's masterpiece is framed by works for voice and orchestra (also on the theme of 'transfigured night') by Franz Lehár, Oskar Fried, and Erich Korngold.
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Edward Gardner on Schoenberg
9th Jun 2020
The British conductor talks to Katherine about his recording of Erwartung & Pelleas und Melisande, released on Chandos last month, and socially-distanced music-making in Bergen.
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Jack Liebeck on Brahms and Schoenberg
22nd Apr 2020
The violinist talks to Katherine about his BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, which was inspired in part by the memory of his grandfather Walter Liebeck - an accomplished amateur violinist and German emigré.
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Music by Haydn and Schoenberg from cellist Alisa Weilerstein
10th Aug 2018
James listens to energetic, vital accounts of Haydn's two cello concertos from Alisa Weilerstein, coupled with an expressively radiant performance of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht.
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Markus Stenz conducts Schoenberg's Gurrelieder
29th Jun 2015
James listens to Markus Stenz and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln's new recording of Schoenberg's colossal epic.
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Arnold Schoenberg
29th Aug 2014
James selects some great recordings of music by the father of twelve-tone composition.
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Schoenberg and Berg
13th Feb 2012
Isabelle Faust pairs the Berg and Beethoven violin concertos to great effect with Orchestra Mozart and Claudio Abbado, whilst Pierre Boulez brings breathtaking clarity to Schoenberg’s densely-orchestrated Pelleas et Melisande with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
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Brahms/Schoenberg from Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker
8th Aug 2011
Rattle conducts Schoenberg’s orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, plus the Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Accompanying Music to a Cinematographic Scene.
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Hilary Hahn plays Schoenberg and Sibelius
10th Mar 2008
The American violinist’s ‘beautiful sound and technical brilliance’ make a strong impact in two twentieth-century concertos with the Swedish Radio Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
