Schoenberg: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

Featuring

Ulf Wallin
Roland Pöntinen
Arnold Schoenberg

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Composer Biography

Arnold Schoenberg, the composer, was self-taught and initially a devoted follower of Brahms, later also revering Wagner.

Performer Biography

Ulf Wallin, the violinist on this recording, is a professor of violin at the 'Hanns Eisler' Academy of Music in Berlin and has collaborated with notable contemporary composers like Alfred Schnittke.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Schoenberg's expressive intention was driven by 'inner necessity' rather than the traditional pursuit of 'a greater or lesser degree of beauty' in music.

Compositional Technique

Schoenberg's pioneering conceptual processes culminated in the development of the twelve-tone method (dodecaphony) around 1918, which aimed for egalitarianism and de-hierarchization of note relationships.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Schoenberg believed in the infallibility of one's own fantasy and inspiration, stating that a composer 'must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and must believe in one's own inspiration'.

Compositional Technique

Around 1908, with his Second String Quartet, Op. 10, Schoenberg began a new stylistic period where he 'renounced a tonal centre'.

Performer Biography

Roland Pöntinen, the pianist, debuted at age 17 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and is also a composer, with his work 'Blue Winter' premiered at Carnegie Hall.