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Schonberg Ensemble - Schonberg Ensemble Edition: A Century Of Music In Perspective (2006) [22CD Box Set]

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.)
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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:

Schonberg Ensemble - Schonberg Ensemble Edition: A Century Of Music In Perspective (2006) [22CD Box Set]
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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  • teufel
  •  wrote in 03:36
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Thanks, but volumes 12 and 21 are not included!

t.
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  • gkjoflm
  •  wrote in 10:24
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Quote: teufel
Thanks, but volumes 12 and 21 are not included!

t.

CD only, no DVD.
volumes 12, 19, 21 DVD
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  • Koko Rickos
  •  wrote in 11:50
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This is one of the most pleasing things I ever downloaded. I left it playing continuously last night. When Ligeti's amazing Adventures started, I remembered the good all days when progressive music was really progressive, not like today where people think that music means something with a tune that they can hum along.
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  • Rabisox
  •  wrote in 21:37
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Quote: Koko Rickos
This is one of the most pleasing things I ever downloaded. I left it playing continuously last night. When Ligeti's amazing Adventures started, I remembered the good all days when progressive music was really progressive, not like today where people think that music means something with a tune that they can hum along.

My dear, most of these composers had one century to prove they created real new quality classic music; most of them totally *failed*, people are as disgusted as they were in the 20th century of their music. So these composers are wrong, not the people. For the moment, classic music is *dead* – but the gigantic tank of past music is so deep we can hear fantastic pieces, waiting for a revival that may not come … Anglo-Saxons will content themselves with their pop music and their so poor classical music they're as proud of as of their language.
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