Vienne 1900

Featuring

Daishin Kashimoto
Éric Le Sage
Zvi Plesser
Paul Meyer
Emmanuel Pahud
Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Alexander von Zemlinsky
Gustav Mahler
Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg

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Composer's Artistic Vision

The composers on this album form an "expanded Viennese School," linked by their radical musical evolution from the death of Johannes Brahms to the interwar period.

Composer Biography

Gustav Mahler, a prominent composer, supported the early careers of the younger composers featured on this album.

Instruments

The piano used for this recording is a Steinway D, serial number 594 393.

Composer Biography

Arnold Schoenberg, a key figure in Viennese modernism, in turn taught Alban Berg and Anton Webern, who became his disciples.

Composer Biography

Alexander von Zemlinsky, a composer and teacher, taught both Arnold Schoenberg (who later became his brother-in-law) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in July 2018 at the Auditorium Campra, Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Compositional Technique

The musical evolution of this period, particularly embodied by Arnold Schoenberg, included a fusion of Brahmsian and Wagnerian styles, extreme chromaticism, atonality, and the development of the twelve-note system.