It would be hard to come up with a more radically divisive major composer than Arnold Schoenberg, who was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. But there is also the Schoenberg who carried on from the 19th century Romantic tradition in his lush early scores like the massive post-Wagnerian and post-Brahmsian “Gurrelieder.” The big …
In 1913 Vienna, a youthful Arnold Schoenberg premiered his epic choral work Gurrelieder and received a rapturous response from the audience. Hear an orchestra of 140 players and 185 choristers perform this melodrama based on the Danish legend of King Waldemar and his love for the beautiful Tove who he takes to live in the Castle Gurre on the Danish …
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Times Staff Writer There is probably no topping the “Tristan Project” any time soon. The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s semi-staged performances of Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” in December were a genuine occasion, still vividly talked about and not likely to be soon forgotten. The only answer turned out to be Schoenberg’s over-the-top “Gurrelieder,” in the elated performance conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen …
