Since you are interested in A Survivor from Warsaw / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / etc, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces / Cello Concerto / Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 (orch. Schoenberg) Fred Sherry (Cello) / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft (Conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] In 1933, Schoenberg transcribed for cello a harpsichord concerto by the baroque composer Matthias Monn (1717-50). He dedicated his arrangement to Pablo Casals, whom he had met in Vienna, but Casals considered it too demanding. |
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Concerto for String Quartet / The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15 Fred Sherry Quartet / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 2 / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "When you consider that this disc gives almost eighty minutes of music, including a rarely performed work in what Robert Craft describes as an unmatched performance, plus three other pieces and an interview, all for a super-budget price then it is... |
Eugene YSAYE
String Trio / sonata for Two Violins / Cello Sonata Henning Kraggerud (violin) Bard Monsen (violin) Lasrs Anders Tomter (viola) Ole-Eirik Ree (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] While Ysaÿe's Six Solo Violin Sonatas remain his best known works, the Belgian virtuoso also composed other pieces which translate his thorough knowledge of the violin's capabilities into thrilling music. |
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6 Orchestral Songs / Kol Nidre / Friede auf Erden Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) / Simon Joly Chorale / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 7 / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "This is a thoroughly recommendable disc, an essential purchase for any Schoenberg collector. Equally, in its demonstration of the composer's wide expressive range, it is of enormous value to anyone even remotely interested in this 20th-century... |
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6 A Cappella Mixed Choruses / String Quartet No. 2 / Suite in G major Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) / Simon Joly Singers / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Fred Sherry Quartet / Robert Craft (conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "A thoroughly enjoyable release which should convert many to Schoenberg's music." (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
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Chamber Symphony No. 2 / Die gluckliche Hand / Wind Quintet Mark Beesley (bass) / Simon Joly Chorale / New York Woodwind Quintet / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 1/May/2008 ] The little-known Second Chamber Symphony ought to be the most popular of Schoenberg's later masterpieces. Neither "atonal" nor "twelve-tone", it contrasts a lush, melodious, dramatic first movement with a rapid and richly polyphonic second movement.... |
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Gurre-Lieder Melanie Diener (soprano) Ernst Haefliger (narrator) Martyn Hill (tenor) Jennifer Lane (mezzo) Stephen O'Mara (tenor) / Simon Joly Chorale Philharmonia [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 1 / 2 CD - released 28/Dec/2004 ] "This is not only recommended but a bit of a bargain as well." -- Bruce Hodges, MusicWeb |
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 / Erwartung, Op. 17 Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 9 / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Schoenberg's polyphonic tone poem Pelleas und Melisande is often compared to Debussy's opera based on the same text by Maurice Maeterlinck. According to the composer, "The first performance, 1905, in Vienna, under my own direction, provoked riots... |
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Serenade / Variations for Orchestra / Bach Orchestrations Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft (Conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 4 / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] In an interview in Berlin, 6 October 1928, Schoenberg introduces his greatest orchestra piece, Variations, Op. 31, with a denigration of American sensibilities |