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Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra | 
 enlarge | Creators: Philippe Muller, Pierre Strauch, Guy Arnaud, Michel Arrignon, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain [members Of], Marie-therese Ghirardi, Andre Saint-clivier, Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Alain Neveux, Gerard Causse, Jacques Ghestem, Sylvie Gazeau, John Shirley-quirk
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 59286
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 48463
UPC: 074644846324
EAN: 0074644846324
ASIN: B000002818
Release Date: July 13, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Marsch | | • | Menuett | | • | Variationen | | • | Sonett von Petraca: "O koennt' ich je der Rach' an ihr genesen" | | • | Tanzscene | | • | Lied (ohne Worte) | | • | Finale | | • | No. 1, Premonitions | | • | No. 2, The Past | | • | No. 3, Chord-Colours | | • | No. 4, Peripetie (Turning point) | | • | No. 5, The Obbligato Recitative |
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| Similar Items:
| • | Schoenberg - Die Glueckliche Hand Variations for Orchestra, Op.31 Verklaerte Nacht / Nimsgern BBC Orch. NY Phil. Boulez | | • | Arnold Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 29, for 2 Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano / Verklaerte Nacht, Op. 4 (Sextet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas & 2 Celli) - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre | | • | Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No1; Die Jacobsleiter | | • | Berg: Chamber Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6; Violin Concerto | | • | Schoenberg: The String Quartets |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Schoenberg's Serenade is comparable to Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Both works are effective modernist parodies of classical genres. But unlike Stravinsky, Schoenberg's treatments of marches and waltzes are never coolly burlesque, but hyper expressive--indeed, expressionist. Pierre Boulez conducts his Ensemble InterContemporain, underlining the music's prickly sonorities and metallic edges. In his interpretation, the expertly separated timbres are the hinge of the composition. Also on the disc is a classic reading of the Five Pieces for Orchestra and the curious Ode to Napoleon, a work for ensemble with narrator. --Joshua Cody
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| Customer Reviews:
 Old music without nostalgia November 24, 2008
Alexander Macallister (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ground-breaking music by a reviled genius! Tragic that the Serenade is the first piece by Schoenberg to use the tone-row system, but the work is very rarely performed or recorded. The fact that the guitar is represented in such important chamber music is cause to reflect on the guitar's current status in the classical music milieu. All the works included on the disc represent different aspects of the composer's innovative ideas: radical dissonance, klangfarbe and sprechgesang vie for attention in a challenging but enriching mix.
The recording is pristine and beautifully balanced, the performances lively and energetic with perfect ensemble. These folk clearly know what they're doing!
Excellent Boulez April 20, 2008
Mauro Gama
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nobody but Boulez, for "contemporain" music. In this recording, Serenata op.24, five pieces for orchestra op.16 and Ode to Napoleon, significant Schoenberg works, are brought with extraordinary wealth of timbres and detail. Five stars.
Top rendition of Schoenberg December 26, 2007
Frank Ettenberg (Wien, Austria)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra
Extraordinary subtlety of interpretetion characterizes this particular version. The timbre and deftness of the musicians is a pearl of great price. This composer still is terribly challenging. He provides the largest, most extensive bridge between 19th & 20th century classical music composition. The serenade takes the most aggressive leave of the former century and speeds ahead at lightspeed. As a previous review said, this composer's statements represent a concentration of Mahler's best offerings.
The poetics here can only be taken in small doses...
 Sluggish tempo on the Serenade -- unforgivable November 9, 2007
Conal
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Boulez ruins the Serenade with a ridiculously slow tempo for the first movement, somewhere around half-note = 80 whereas Schoenberg specified half-note = 100. With other composers, you might get away with that sort of nonsense, claiming that you slowed it down to "bring out the interesting inner voices" or whatever. But with Schoenberg you don't second guess. Yes, it goes VERY fast, but this is for a reason. Skip Boulez, try a CD where Robert Craft conducts. He respects the designated tempo and keeps it ALIVE!
(The Five Pieces performance on this CD may be fine -- I don't know that work so well.)
 I guess I'm not as sophisticated as all of you... September 20, 2006
hazmatt
3 out of 28 found this review helpful
Depth? Genius? This stuff sounds like your watching an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Its like the background sound effects when Yosemite Sam steps on a rake or Daffy does a double-take. Imagine being Ray Charles or Andrea Bocelli and "watching" old cartoons: it's the same experience. But in this case, I'd rather be Marlee Matlin.
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