Schoenberg Quartet: Retrospective Edition
2008Etcetera KTC 1382
Anton Webern, Three Pieces (String Quartet No. 2)
Schoenberg String Quartet
Susan Narucki, soprano
From the notes by Antony Beaumont:
Webern to Schoenberg (6.7.1911) "I have no long ideas." Wide range of string sonorities (col legno, sul ponticello, flageolet) Free atonality. Second movement, part vocal, part Sprechgesang, text by Webern.
Schoenberg Quartet: The Retrospective Edition is a five CD box set, containing works by Ravel, Debussy, Dutilleux, Chausson, Reger, Brahms, Bartok, Webern, and Schulhoff and commemorates the quartet's distinguished career, spanning over thirty years.
