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Brahms via Schoenberg: The Piano Quartet in G minor
Posted on July 10, 2019 1 Comment
Despite his inseparable association as the creator of twelve-tone composition, Arnold Schoenberg held a deep affinity for music of the past. His early pieces, such as Guerre-Lieder and Verklärte Nacht, reflect an extension of the sweeping, late-Romantic idioms of Wagner, Bruckner, and Mahler. Even many of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone works keep one foot rooted in an earlier era. […]
A Twentieth Century Christmas (Part II)
Posted on December 22, 2017 1 Comment
Here are four more neglected classical Christmas works from the twentieth century, which is the second of my two part series. (You can read the first part here.) Without further ado, let’s continue… 1. Daniel Pinkham: Christmas Cantata (1957) An American composer and organist who excelled at composing pieces for choir, Daniel Pinkham’s musical language embraced the […]
