The voice of Arnold Schoenberg is discovered, describing Pelleas und Melisande (in English)

The voice of Arnold Schoenberg is discovered, describing Pelleas und Melisande (in English)

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norman lebrecht

March 04, 2014

Just listen to this, from the Schoenberg Centre in Vienna.

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  • Don Drewecki says:
    March 4, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    I think there was a recording of AS interviewed for a radio station in the US in the late 1940s, which was issued by Columbia Masterworks in connection with Robert Craft’s series, back in the 1960s.

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  • nyer says:
    March 5, 2014 at 1:04 am

    and the excellent, long-lost recording by Zillig and the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra can be had here:

    http://squirrelnyc.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/schoenbergs-pelleas-und-melisande-first-recording-capitol-telefunken-1949/

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