Berg / Eisler / Schoenberg / Ravel: Early Piano Music
1/31/1995, 17 Tracks, 58:54
Featuring
Liselotte Weiss
Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg
Hanns Eisler
Maurice Ravel
Arthur Honegger
Enrique Granados
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Historical Context
The social changes of the 19th century brought fundamental changes to music, with harmony breaking its own barriers in Wagner's Tristan and leading to the collapse of traditional tonality.
Performer Biography
Liselotte Weiss, the German pianist on this recording, is a pupil of Claudio Arrau and is particularly interested in seldom-played, difficult works of the piano literature.
Composer's Artistic Vision
French Impressionism, drawing on oriental models, constructed an aesthetic based on free tonality, while Igor Stravinsky freed music from the bonds of rhythm.
Historical Context
The album explores how the great revolution of the epoch, which overturned old European forms and orders, inevitably affected art and music, leading to fundamental changes in artistic language.
Performer Biography
Liselotte Weiss has revived unjustly neglected works of classical masters and played many pieces by contemporary composers still awaiting discovery, including premieres of works written specially for her.
Compositional Technique
Arnold Schoenberg, a composer featured on this album, created a system of 'atonal' music where each of the twelve tones was granted equal value.
Interpretation
Liselotte Weiss, the pianist, constantly seeks new discoveries and strives to avoid the commonplace in her interpretations.
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