Beethoven | Schoenberg
One of the first albums recorded by the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra conducted by Ernst Kovacic. The album contains extremely interesting and rarely combined repertoire.
Beethoven | Schoenberg
One of the first albums recorded by the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra conducted by Ernst Kovacic. The album contains extremely interesting and rarely combined repertoire.
Album premiere: 2009
Publishers: National Forum of Music, CD Accord
Conductor: Ernst Kovacic
Performers: NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra
This recording provides a rare opportunity to compare the creative beginnings and peaks of mature compositional art. Two early works by Beethoven and Schoenberg were almost unperformed until the composers were later recognised as creators of significant and quite radical musical innovations (appropriate for their era). On the other hand, Beethoven’s late, long-misunderstood work, the Grosse Fuge Op. 133 (isolated among three string quartets dedicated to the Russian prince Nikolai Golitsyn) already foreshadows such artists as Bartók and the compositional techniques of the Second Viennese School, centred around Schoenberg. Although isolated, it is compositionally connected with Op. 132 (A minor), as well as Op. 130 (B flat major), of which it was originally the finale. It is no exaggeration to say that both composers fall into the category of genius, and part of a romantic cult that begins with Beethoven and gradually ends with Schoenberg.
