Schoenberg 150 (born September 13, 1874)

Berliner Philharmoniker – Lahav Shani conducts Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande, and Alisa Weilerstein plays Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast [repeat option].

Sep 22, 2024 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Schoenberg 150 (born September 13, 1874), Videos

Saturday, September 21, 2024 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin A well-balanced programme of two roughly forty-minute pieces. The Prokofiev, his Opus 125, written for Rostropovich, designed with shortish outer movements bookending one...

September 13, 1874, the birth of Arnold Schoenberg, Vienna. He died on July 13, 1951, Los Angeles.

Sep 13, 2024 | News, Schoenberg 150 (born September 13, 1874), Videos

Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta. Kiera Duffy (sop), members of Chicago SO, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. Variations, Opus 31. Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi; 1989 OUT FRIDAY: The Juilliard String...

Elisabeth Leonskaja records Piano Works by Berg, Schoenberg and Webern for Warner Classics.

Sep 10, 2024 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews, Schoenberg 150 (born September 13, 1874)

Having recorded the complete Piano Sonatas of Mozart and Schubert, on Warner, Elisabeth Leonskaja now makes a natural move to the above composers, collectively known as the Second Viennese School, each though individual, lucidly interpreted and communicated by...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 67: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Tarmo Peltokoski conducts Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ & Shostakovich Five, with Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 9, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Schoenberg 150 (born September 13, 1874)

Monday, September 9, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Tarmo Peltokoski, collecting orchestras as he goes (emulating his slightly senior Finnish compatriot Klaus Mäkelä), opened this Prom with Greensleeves, of sixteenth-century origin and almost certainly not by Henry...

Many Happy Returns to Christoph von Dohnányi, 95 today. The First Symphonies of Schumann (‘Spring’) & Mahler, and Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande.

Sep 8, 2024 | News, Schoenberg 150 (born September 13, 1874), Videos

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester; November 14, 2008. Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra; April 24, 1988. NDR Sinfonieorchester (now NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester); July 16,...

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 9: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Brahms’s Third Symphony & Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, with Alice Coote singing Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Jul 25, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Schoenberg 150 (born September 13, 1874)

Thursday, July 25, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London Three works that end quietly, the concert concluding with a song-cycle. It started with a Symphony, Brahms’s Third, here lyrically content from the off if needing the exposition repeat for the BBCSSO to settle...