Schoenberg: Verkläte Nacht/Strauss: Metamorphosen

1. Verklärte Nacht, for string sextet, Op. 4 Transfigured Night
Composed by Arnold Schoenberg
Performed by London Festival Orchestra , Ross Pople Conducted by Ross Pople

2. Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings, AV 142
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by London Festival Orchestra Conducted by Ross Pople

Tracks:

Verklarte Nacht, Op.4
Metamorphosen, AV 142

Customer Reviews:

It's called "programming.".......2006-12-15

To the reviewer who wrote 'how dare they compare a...faker with a genius?'

They dare.

It's called "programming."

In music, that means bringing together works that illuminate each other in interesting ways.

It doesn't mean the works are of identical value, merely enlightening when encountered side by side.

And BTW: the simple fact of recording a piece of music and distributing it is not some rare honor. It does not imply that the musical work is that of a "genius" or anywhere near there.

It implies a strategic decision that some people might find that work interesting or valuable or enjoyable--in any number of ways, along any number of axes.

We listen to music to be amused, to pass the time, to admire it, to delight in it, to be moved by it, etc.

It is possible to appreciate all these purposes--when we open our minds just a bit.

--E. R. O'Neill

how dare they pair a mediocre faker with a genius!.......1999-03-26

the music contained on this cd is proof enough in and of itself that Arnold Schoenberg was a mediocre musical talent, and turned to composing in an alienist atonal style only after he could plainly see that he could not compete on tonal musical grounds with the likes of strauss, pfitzner, schreker, ravel, debussy, and the like. the man craved attention and success, and most of all, "historical significance" for himself, and therefore devised a system of composing that purposefully could not be understood, thus setting himself up as a pretended misunderstood "genius" in the romantic sense, and claiming that anyone who cried foul regarding his music was simply not sophisticated enough to comprehend his noise. Then he created a rigid mathematical system of organizing tones with no relation whatsoever to natural acoustics or the way human beings make sense of sound. If his ludicrous communistic regimentation of musical tones is not enough to prove that Schoenberg was a musical mediocrity at best, or incompetent at worst, then just listen to the garbage contained on this cd for confirmation.

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