This show, first broadcast on April 8, 2016, focuses on two Viennese pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, who would both develop into major 20th-century composers: Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Together, the three eventually came to be known as the “Second Viennese School.” Berg’s expressionist composition is featured, along with his last completed twelve-tone score; Webern is represented by his compressed, pointillistic atonal music and by his twelve-tone works. Compositions played are:
ALBAN BERG
Altenberg Lieder (1912)
Three Excerpts from Wozzeck (1924)
Violin Concerto (1935)
Second movement [excerpt] from Violin Concerto, conducted by Anton Webern
ANTON WEBERN
Five Pieces for Orchestra (1913)
Six Songs (1921)
Symphony (1928)
Das Augenlicht (1935)
Link to:
Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018
For more on Alban Berg, see:
Music: SFCR Radio Show #28, Ross Lee Finney and His Teachers
For more on Alban Berg and Anton Webern, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
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Music: SFCR Radio Show #27, 20th-Century Music on the March
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 