Having exhausted Igor Stravinsky's conductible repertoire for Naxos, conductor Robert Craft has turned his attention to Arnold Schoenberg; Naxos' Schoenberg: Six Songs for Soprano and Orchestra is already Volume 7 in his Schoenberg series. Of course, Craft has been here before in most instances, mainly through the incomplete, though comprehensive, ...
This release really is the "essential" Stravinsky in the sense that every major piece of his entire oeuvre is represented here and in chronological order. You get a picture of his compositional style and how it changed over the course of his career. It ends with a bonus track, an animated recollection by Stravinsky of the writing and premiere of ...
A few aging listeners will recall a time when the only way to hear most of the music of Anton Webern was through the recordings of Robert Craft. Few of those listeners will recall those performances with pleasure. Webern's music was new then, so most of it had never been recorded before, so no one really knew how it went. That Craft had his ...
Fine as they are -- and they are as well-played and well-conducted as any recordings of the works ever made -- Robert Craft's otherwise unimpeachable recordings of Stravinsky's The Fairy's Kiss and Pulcinella are too cool for affection and too straight for laughs. The Fairy's Kiss is Stravinsky's artfully knocked-together pastiche of Tchaikovsky ...
Stravinsky: Three Greek Ballets is a release in Naxos' Robert Craft Collection, which at this point had added one new entry to Craft's discography in addition to repackaging older recordings made for Koch and MusicMasters; this is the fifth release in the latter category. Craft is perhaps the most reputable person in all of Stravinsky scholarship, ...
Schoenberg was one of the pioneering composers of the twentieth century and the most important work on this disc is the original, forward-looking expressionistic Five Pieces for Orchestra, the general characteristics of which are brevity and intensity of expression and which falls into his compositional period between those of the late romantic ...
Made in 2007, the 125th anniversary of the birth of Igor Stravinsky, this recording of The Rite of Spring conducted by Robert Craft, the composer's amanuensis, is a fitting gesture to the composer and his long-standing relationship with Craft. The disc includes a January 2007 recording of the third and final 1967 edition of the work -- albeit the ...
It's arguable whether or not Robert Craft's recordings for Columbia are pleasurable to hear again after many years in the vault, but because they are part of the historical record and ripe for reissue by Sony, they are at least worth a few words in consideration. This 2006 reissue of Craft's recordings of Arnold Schoenberg's and Anton Webern's ...
Although Arnold Schoenberg's Six A Cappella Mixed Choruses (1928, 1948) are prominently featured on this CD, the third volume of Robert Craft's Schoenberg Collection on Naxos, the recordings of the String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1908), and the Suite in G for string orchestra (1934) should not be overlooked as mere filler. In some ways, these ...
Robert Craft has been Schoenberg's most committed interpreter since the Fifties when he led various permutations of studio musicians in a series of recordings of the Viennese master's complete works for the Columbia label. Personal commitment, however, proved no substitute for conducting technique, and many if not most Craft's Columbia Schoenberg ...
Schoenberg's Gurrelieder grew as he composed it. First conceived as a song cycle with piano accompaniment, it was premiered a decade later as a cantata for soloists, chorus, and enormous orchestra. It was also a passionately romantic young man's work finished by a fanatically modernist mature man and as the composer grew older, the composition got ...
This Naxos disc is a coupling of two recordings originally issued by Koch. Both the recordings were part of Robert Craft's continuation of the complete Stravinsky edition he had begun on MusicMasters. Craft's second Oedipus Rex is less than entirely compelling. Martyn Hill is a virile Oedipus and Jennifer Lane is a noble Jocasta, but Craft is a ...
Re-coupled from decade-old recordings originally released on the Music Masters label, this 2006 disc of Stravinsky's sacred choral works led by Robert Craft is in its way as good as it gets for the music. The playing of New York's Orchestra of St. Luke's and London's Philharmonia Orchestra is colorful and strong. The singing of the Simon Joly ...
Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra is a warhorse of modern music, performed and recorded with regularity. Robert Craft's rendition of Schoenberg's accessible 1909 Expressionist masterpiece is as good as any, and is at times quite spirited (hard not to be, given the work's bombastic character), especially during the opening section, "Vorgefuhle ...
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