Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto op. 42 (Excerpt)

Mitsuko Uchida, soloist. Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, conducted by Jeffrey Tate. Score available at www.schoenbergmusic.com.

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[Justine Verret]

This is georgous. No, I do not have that mad, out of this world musical intelligence. I appreciate what I hear. You guys probably think it's scandalous (just like Schoenberg back then) and that I don't understand one single thing about music. Maybe I don't. And I like it that way. I just love how chaotic and precise this is at the same time, I guess!

[orhan cem çetin]

This is for a Saturday night.

[EinfachIchDavid]

0:00-0:36 I like that part the most. :-)

[hjiuhfhrehui]

i actually dont know exactly anymore xD. i might be confusing schoenberg with someone else now we talked about in school haha. but what i do know is that stravinsky is more "random" and therefor perhaps little more atonal. i meen. he uses the collage technique right ? cutting and pasting with few elements . quite a lot :)

[OmegaLesPaul]

I don't think that Stravinsky is more atonal than Schoenberg, I mean he pioneered the field :P

[OmegaLesPaul]

I can see what you mean by there always being some semblance of tonality. For example, The Dove Descending Breaks the Air, while being a serialist piece, begins and cadences in F# minor (I believe, that or F minor), so you're right about that, but I think he still has entirely atonal pieces like the inner movements of canticum-sacrum.

[hjiuhfhrehui]

but i do agree that stravinsky is far mor atonal in a way

[hjiuhfhrehui]

actually i dont think music can be completely/entirely atonal . theres always a tonal center i think. even in a cluster there's a tonal center.

[OmegaLesPaul]

Stravinsky wrote some entirely atonal pieces

[BenjaminMJ]

3:50 what an orspasm on piano

[r0cStar94]

dat white noise.