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The Music of Arnold Schoenberg Vol. III
KOCH International Classics CD-7463
Chamber Symphony; Four Orchestral Songs; Variations for Orchestra; Music of J.S. Bach arranged for orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg
Comments from Press:
"The result is a performance as strong and authentic in atmosphere as it is in textural detail, and it confirms the overall impression of this disk as one of the most stimulating and necessary compilations of twentieth-century music to appear this year."
--Gramophone Magazine, August 1999
"The Music of Arnold Schoenberg on Koch International Classics contains performances of diamond-like clarity, glowing passion and perfect expressive proportions....a fine pickup band dubbed the 20th Century Classics Ensemble."
--CNN, July 1999
"All the work on the latest CD "The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, Vol.3", demonstrate that Schoenberg was Stravinsky’s equal as an orchestrator even though his sensibility was completely different......... Craft gave the music a punch that enlivened its Weltschmerz......Craft and the Philharmonia perfectly capture the ecstatic devotion of both composer and arranger."
--David Schiff, The New York Times, August 1999
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Survivor From Warsaw - KOCH International Classics
"Robert Craft has long been a persuasive advocate of Schoenberg’s music, and his recent efforts have afforded many pleasures. "A Survivor From Warsaw", is a 1994 recording from Koch International with Simon Callow as narrator, is a powerful example, accompanied on the same disk by others, including Five Pieces for Orchestra, also played by the London Symphony, and the charming Serenade performed by the 20th Century Classics ensemble with Stephen Varcoe as baritone soloist."
--James R. Oestreich, The New York Times, August 1999
Favorite Schoenberg recordings by New York Times Writers
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