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London Sinfonietta; Atherton - Vienna - From Mozart to Schoenberg [CD]

London Sinfonietta; Atherton - Vienna - From Mozart to Schoenberg [CD]

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Vienna, old and new, meet on this journey from Mozart to Schoenberg and then on to Berg, Weill, Gerhard and Ligeti with David Atherton and the London Sinfonietta. Central to this anthology is the pioneering set of music by Schoenberg recorded in 1973-74 critically acclaimed for its 'big line and attention to detail (Stereo Review) and for the "mellow but well-detailed recording' (Gramophone).

The London Sinfonietta is renowned across the world as one of the most adventurous groups commissioning and performing new music. From its inception, however, the Sinfonietta played the classics alongside new and avant-garde pieces, and this new Eloquence set traces the engagement of the group with the Viennese tradition.

At the centre of the set is the 5-LP survey of Schoenberg's chamber music - from the early and Wagnerian Verklarte Nacht to the late Phantasy for violin and piano - which the Sinfonietta recorded in 1973-4 to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. The recordings were bedded in by extensive performing experience, in a comprehensive concert series celebrating the music of Schoenberg and his Catalan student, Roberto Gerhard.

The Sinfonietta's co-founder David Atherton had come to know Gerhard at Cambridge, and so these recordings bear the stamp of authority, as well as thorough preparation. In a new interview for the set with note-writer Peter Quantrill, Atherton explains the genesis of the Sinfonietta as formed around the unique instrumentation of Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony. He and his colleagues shook up the London concert scene in the 1970s with their energy and commitment to modernist classics and living composers.

However, the Sinfonietta brought the same incisive musicianship to Mozart's wind serenades and Schubert's sacred music, as these Argo recordings testify. A further rarity is the album of clarinet concertos by Louis Spohr, with the ensemble's long-standing clarinettist, Antony Pay, as soloist. Recorded after a complete Stravinsky concert series, their version of Agon has long been recognised as a definitive account.

The set also includes the 3-LP Weill set that Atherton and the Sinfonietta recorded for Deutsche Grammophon in 1975, and concludes with the Ligeti album recorded that same year by the ensemble for Decca's 20th-century HEAD series with soloists Aurele Nicolet (flute) and Heinz Holliger (oboe).

The set makes a significant contribution to the Schoenberg 150th anniversary year, as well as telling a compelling story of one of the UK's most innovative performing ensembles.

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Vienna, old and new, meet on this journey from Mozart to Schoenberg and then on to Berg, Weill, Gerhard and Ligeti with David Atherton and the London Sinfonietta. Central to this anthology is the pioneering set of music by Schoenberg recorded in 1973-74 critically acclaimed for its 'big line and attention to detail (Stereo Review) and for the "mellow but well-detailed recording' (Gramophone).

The London Sinfonietta is renowned across the world as one of the most adventurous groups commissioning and performing new music. From its inception, however, the Sinfonietta played the classics alongside new and avant-garde pieces, and this new Eloquence set traces the engagement of the group with the Viennese tradition.

At the centre of the set is the 5-LP survey of Schoenberg's chamber music - from the early and Wagnerian Verklarte Nacht to the late Phantasy for violin and piano - which the Sinfonietta recorded in 1973-4 to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. The recordings were bedded in by extensive performing experience, in a comprehensive concert series celebrating the music of Schoenberg and his Catalan student, Roberto Gerhard.

The Sinfonietta's co-founder David Atherton had come to know Gerhard at Cambridge, and so these recordings bear the stamp of authority, as well as thorough preparation. In a new interview for the set with note-writer Peter Quantrill, Atherton explains the genesis of the Sinfonietta as formed around the unique instrumentation of Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony. He and his colleagues shook up the London concert scene in the 1970s with their energy and commitment to modernist classics and living composers.

However, the Sinfonietta brought the same incisive musicianship to Mozart's wind serenades and Schubert's sacred music, as these Argo recordings testify. A further rarity is the album of clarinet concertos by Louis Spohr, with the ensemble's long-standing clarinettist, Antony Pay, as soloist. Recorded after a complete Stravinsky concert series, their version of Agon has long been recognised as a definitive account.

The set also includes the 3-LP Weill set that Atherton and the Sinfonietta recorded for Deutsche Grammophon in 1975, and concludes with the Ligeti album recorded that same year by the ensemble for Decca's 20th-century HEAD series with soloists Aurele Nicolet (flute) and Heinz Holliger (oboe).

The set makes a significant contribution to the Schoenberg 150th anniversary year, as well as telling a compelling story of one of the UK's most innovative performing ensembles.

Track Listing

MOZART Serenade K. 361 'Gran Partita'

MOZART Serenades K. 375 & 388

SPOHR Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

SCHUBERT Mass No. 4

SCHOENBERG Verklarte Nacht

SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1

SCHOENBERG Wind Quintet

SCHOENBERG Suite Op. 29

STRAVINSKY Agon

GERHARD Libra

CDs 11-12 - WEILL Kleine Dreigroschenmusik

LIGETI

Wind Octet D.72

Serenade Op. 24

Pierrot Lunaire

Der Wunsch des Liebhabers

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

BERG Chamber Concerto

Gemini

Mahagonny Songspiel

Melodien for Orchestra

Eine kleine Trauermusik

Ein Stelldichein

Der neue Klassizimus

Phantasy for Violin and Piano

Leo

Violin Concerto

Double Concerto

Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern

Herzgewachse

Lied der Waldtaube (Gurrelieder)

Happy End

Chamber Concerto

Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra

Die eiserne Brigade

Das Berliner Requiem

Nachtwandler (Brettl-Lieder)

Weihnachtsmusik

Pantomime I

Vom Tod im Wald

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  • Genre: Classical
  • Product Type: CD
  • Barcode: 28948472970
  • Release Date: February 07, 2025
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