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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire / Chamber Symphony No. 1 / 4 Orchestral Songs / Herzgewachse Anja Silja, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Eileen Hulse / Philharmonia Orchestra / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2007 ] "Authoritative accounts of some of Schoenberg's greatest works, with Silja brilliant in Pierrot Lunaire, and the whole programme conducted with the deepest understanding by Craft, also author of the magnificent notes." Five Stars ***** BBC Music Mag... |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 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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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 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... |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 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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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 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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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / etc Rolf Schulte (violin) David Wilson-Johnson (narrator) Jeremy Denk (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 10 / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] This volume of Robert Craft's acclaimed Schoenberg series presents the composer's favourite of his own orchestral works, the Violin Concerto. |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 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 |
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Craft
Void [ Carnal Records / CD - released 15/Aug/2011 ] |
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Craft Spells
Idle Labor (CD) [ Captured Tracks / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
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Craft Spells
Idle Labor (LP) [ Captured Tracks / LP - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |