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...strangest operas ever put on vinyl is Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (Columbia, 3 LPs), which is partly a music drama based on Exodus, partly a musical essay on the nature of God. The opera's fascinating conflict develops between Moses, whose heart knows the Word his tongue cannot utter, and his brother Aron, who speaks glibly but substitutes for Moses' harsh and humble vision of God the opiate of a comforting father figure. To Aron, God is joy, to Moses He is awe. Moses' anguished faith can admit only...
...farmers came from miles around to shake Max's hand. Says he: "A lot of them told me they had never heard music like this before." The combination of Max and FM proved so fertile that now, two years after the Rothmans began flooding the basin with Beethoven, Schoenberg, Saint-Saëns and other good music. FCC is letting him branch out with an AM radio station as well. And this week the station's 36 stockholders-mostly old friends-will meet with Max to hear a cheerful report: during December, its first month of both...
...record companies have put out a huge repertory, covering the range of chamber music from its charming origins in Renaissance Italy and England to Schoenberg's atonal lung-and-mind exercise, the Quintet for Wind Instruments, Op. 26 (Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Columbia) and beyond. Eight of Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society...
...savagery, his new instrumental groupings seemed shocking in the early 1890, they were already conventional in the 1920s to ears becoming domesticated to the wild rhythms of Igor Stravinsky or the pulverized harmonies of the atonalists. About Stravinsky and his experiments, Sibelius remained steadfastly unenthusiastic; the works of Arnold Schoenberg he found "unsympathetic." Speaking of his serious, sometimes forbidding style, Sibelius said: "Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure water." But as he went on his own lonely way, he took huge, enthusiastic audiences with him: no serious composer was more popular with...
...rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words of Schoenberg's Moses-was abstract, sometimes difficult to bear, but never to be ignored...