Schoenberg: String Quartet No 2 Mvmnt 4 "Entrückung" - Margaret Price and the LaSalle Quartet

The final movement of Schoenberg's 2nd string quartet. "I feel the air of other planets..."

I will probably upload the other three movements soon.

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Music

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• schoenberg
• atonality
• pantonality
• nontonal
• atonal
• pantonal
• avant garde
• music
• classical

[thisisnotzimbabwe]

I enjoyed a lot this nice little piece by the master Schoenberg. It is hard to dance with it, though. I played it at a party last night and it was not very popular. Next time I'll try Pierre Boulez or ABBA

[deadcalledpark]

atonal, "but" gentle: the beginning of the voice is quite d-minor, the favorite key of schoenberg

[DrHepp]

es gibt in meinem Leben 3 musikalische Schübe: der erste war die Kunst der Fuge von Bach, der zweite der Mathis von Hindemith, der dritte dieses Streichquartett. Was muß Margaret Price eine gewaltige Musikalität besitzen, daß sie den Part so "richtig" singt. Die meisten Sänger, Dirigenten, Musiker, die sich an Schönberg heranmachen, verstehn ihn überhaupt nicht. Man hörts einfach, als läse jemand in einer ihm fremden Sprache, indem er die Worte nachbildet.

[MTegzes]

If this fact has already been stated elsewhere, sorry for the redundancy. This is the first moment of atonality for Schoenberg. In this last movement of the string quartet, he does not give a key signature. The first time I heard this piece in my third year music theory class at Peabody Conservatory - it blew my mind and penetrated my soul. I was lucky enough to sing it some years later. The poem is amazing as well. A perfect union between music and lyric.

[AmgNoWai]

Beautiful.

[burmesearmy]

I came across this whilst reading about Modernism for my uni course. It is quite an important piece of music, historically; I have to agree that it is pretty frickin' scary though.

[Faramir122]

@HLAX41 Don't think so. Try Sofia Gubaidulina or Penderecki's "Saint Luke's Passion"

[ebonics4everyone]

Clearly he influenced jazz and vice versa.

[bongfodder]

A drop of water with perfect synchronicity into the pan I made my sixth dinner of boiled oats in.

[DCBSupafly]

@maocharlisme I don't know about the painting. Maybe Schoenberg's? The song's words come from Stefan George's poem, I think called 'maximin'

[aamusc]

@lovesGenet This is an enjoyable response: always exploring music.

[tjrcutts]

"Not based around a key chord". You can have degrees of atonality, I think, from very formally tonal music such as Mozart or Bach through less tonal experiments of the late romantic composers like Debussy and Ravel, through to Schoenberg, who started out as a typical late romantic composer, but steadily abandoned traditional harmony until he arrived at 12-tone music which has rules to make it atonal. This piece sounds like early stuff to me; it's crunchy, but still sounds quite romantic.