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Arnold Schoenberg

Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2

Sunday 13 May 2007 17:00-18:30 (Radio 3)

Stephen Johnson explores the ideas behind one of Schoenberg's most extraordinary pieces, the Second String Quartet, in which the composer takes the listener on a journey from the music of late Romanticism to the Expressionism of the early 20th century. Recorded in front of an audience at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge with the Quatuor Parisii and soprano Rachel Nicholls.
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(Repeat, the programme can be listened to online on the original programme pageÌýDiscovering Music Jan 6 2007)

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

Playlist

Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces Op. 16
(Original version)
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle Conductor
EMI CDC 7 49857 2
Tracks 1 - 5

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