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| | Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sony | | Release Date : | | 1993-07-13 | | Store Price : | | $7.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $7.98 | | Usually ships in 3 to 5 days | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Serenade for baritone & septet, Op. 24: Marsch
2. Serenade for baritone & septet, Op. 24: Menuett
3. Serenade for baritone & septet, Op. 24: Variationen
4. Serenade for baritone & septet, Op. 24: Sonett von Petraca: "O könnt' ich je der Rach' an ihr genesen"
5. Serenade for baritone & septet, Op. 24: Tanzscene
6. Serenade for baritone & septet, Op. 24: Lied (ohne Worte)
7. Serenade for baritone & septet, Op. 24: Finale
8. Pieces (5) for orchestra, Op. 16: No. 1, Premonitions
9. Pieces (5) for orchestra, Op. 16: No. 2, The Past
10. Pieces (5) for orchestra, Op. 16: No. 3, Chord-Colours
11. Pieces (5) for orchestra, Op. 16: No. 4, Peripetie (Turning point)
12. Pieces (5) for orchestra, Op. 16: No. 5, The Obbligato Recitative
13. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, for narrator, piano & strings, Op. 41
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Old music without nostalgia
Submitted on: 2008-11-24 |
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Ground-breaking music by a reviled genius! Tragic that the Serenade is the first piece by Schoenberg to use the tone-row system, but the work is very rarely performed or recorded. The fact that the guitar is represented in such important chamber music is cause to reflect on the guitar's current status in the classical music milieu. All the works included on the disc represent different aspects of the composer's innovative ideas: radical dissonance, klangfarbe and sprechgesang vie for attention in a challenging but enriching mix.
The recording is pristine and beautifully balanced, the performances lively and energetic with perfect ensemble. These folk clearly know what they're doing! |
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Excellent Boulez
Submitted on: 2008-04-20 |
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| Nobody but Boulez, for "contemporain" music. In this recording, Serenata op.24, five pieces for orchestra op.16 and Ode to Napoleon, significant Schönberg works, are brought with extraordinary wealth of timbres and detail. Five stars. |
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Top rendition of Schönberg
Submitted on: 2007-12-26 |
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Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra
Extraordinary subtlety of interpretetion characterizes this particular version. The timbre and deftness of the musicians is a pearl of great price. This composer still is terribly challenging. He provides the largest, most extensive bridge between 19th & 20th century classical music composition. The serenade takes the most aggressive leave of the former century and speeds ahead at lightspeed. As a previous review said, this composer's statements represent a concentration of Mahler's best offerings.
The poetics here can only be taken in small doses... |
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 Sluggish tempo on the Serenade -- unforgivable
Submitted on: 2007-11-09 |
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Boulez ruins the Serenade with a ridiculously slow tempo for the first movement, somewhere around half-note = 80 whereas Schoenberg specified half-note = 100. With other composers, you might get away with that sort of nonsense, claiming that you slowed it down to "bring out the interesting inner voices" or whatever. But with Schoenberg you don't second guess. Yes, it goes VERY fast, but this is for a reason. Skip Boulez, try a CD where Robert Craft conducts. He respects the designated tempo and keeps it ALIVE!
(The Five Pieces performance on this CD may be fine -- I don't know that work so well.) |
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 I guess I'm not as sophisticated as all of you...
Submitted on: 2006-09-20 |
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| Depth? Genius? This stuff sounds like your watching an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Its like the background sound effects when Yosemite Sam steps on a rake or Daffy does a double-take. Imagine being Ray Charles or Andrea Bocelli and "watching" old cartoons: it's the same experience. But in this case, I'd rather be Marlee Matlin. |
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