Schoenberg in Hollywood
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Composer: Arnold SchoenbergConductor: John Mauceri
Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester
Orchestra: Deutscher-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-06-10
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- 1. Ouverture
- 2. Adagio
- 3. Menuet and Trio
- 4. Gavotte
- 5. Gigue
- 1. Adagio
- 2. Con fuoco
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Free Music Review: Not so degernerate Schoenberg.
Hit: 4 Stars
'Schoenberg in Hollywood' with two late 'tonal' works from the pioneer of atonal composition will probably disappoint any listener like me who trolls the less well travelled corners of musical works in search of the delightfully unusual. On top of Schoenberg's reputation for a ground breaker in compositional theory, this recording is being issued as part of London's Entartete Musik, or, music considered degenerate by the Third Reich. As these are both relatively late works and as both were composed 'in exile' in America, I doubt Herr Goebbels ever even heard them, much less issued any edicts against their performance. They are certainly less provocative than the great renditions of Berlin Cabaret songs by Ute Lemper issued in this same London series.
To my ear, these pieces are relatively ordinary mid-20th century orchestral works, a bit better than your standard movie music, but not up to Schoenberg's best, or Stravinsky's best, or Berg's best, or Bartok's best, etc.
Schoenberg in Hollywood Poster
You've got to love this disc just for its cover, a "colorized" black-and-white photograph which shows the composer in tennis shoes, wearing an implausibly pink short-sleeve shirt, playing ping pong. The message here is sun and fun in southern California, and the music that goes with it, dating from Schoenberg's years of residence in Los Angeles (1934-1951), scarcely sounds like it's the work of the man who wrote Verklarte Nacht and Pierrot lunaire and then gave us the 12-tone system. That is precisely the point. Schoenberg's horizons opened considerably following his forced emigration to the United States, partly by necessity (it seems no one was commissioning 12-tone works back in the 1930s and '40s, and Schoenberg had to eat), and partly out of what the liner notes refer to as the composer's "latent desire" to write pleasant, i.e. tonal, music. Schoenberg nonetheless took pains to minimize the importance of these essays and to preempt any suggestion that they marked a renunciation of his thornier style. Consequently, during the half-century since they were written, they have come to be doubly deprecated--as works of Schoenberg among those who dislike his music, and as bastard offspring in the eyes of the faithful. Alas, the Suite for String Orchestra really is pretty dreadful, and the Theme and Variations, Op. 43b, not much better. But both these pieces receive sympathetic readings from John Mauceri and his Berlin-based forces, as does the more widely-known Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38, a hybrid begun in 1906 and finished in 1939. The recorded sound, from two different venues, is first-rate. --Ted LibbeyClassical Music CDs
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