"The Berlin Philharmonic has never been particularly associated with the music of Arnold Schoenberg, though both Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado recorded his Gurrelieder with the orchestra, and in the 1970s Herbert von Karajan included superlative versions of Pelleas und Melisande and the orchestral Variations in his Berlin box of recordings of the Second Viennese School. But to judge from this impressive collection of five works by Schoenberg, all recorded at concerts in the Berlin Philharmonie between 2019 and last year,"
"Petrenko's set does include some of Schoenberg's best known works. There's the string sextet Verklarte Nacht in its sumptuous string-orchestra expansion, and the Chamber Symphony No 1, thankfully not in the late orchestral version that blurs the acerbic textures and robs the instrumental writing of its muscularity, but in the original scoring for 15 solo instruments. And a superb account of the Violin Concerto, in which the soloist, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, turns what can sometimes seem a rather four-square, dutifully conventional piece into something constantly surprising,"
Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic recorded five Schoenberg works at concerts in the Berlin Philharmonie between 2019 and last year. The programme includes Verklärte Nacht in its string-orchestra expansion, Chamber Symphony No 1 in the original scoring for 15 solo instruments, the Violin Concerto featuring Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and the Variations for Orchestra with vividly characterised events. The recording of Die Jakobsleiter is the first new version of the oratorio fragment in more than 20 years and is presented as the most compelling item in the collection. The Chamber Symphony avoids the later orchestral re-scoring to preserve its acerbic textures and muscular writing.
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