Composer of the Week

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) 2/5. The Expressionist Painter Donald Macleod explores the effect on Schoenberg of his wife's affair, a personal crisis which he transformed into music as well as paintings, forming an important friendship with the artist Kandinsky. Wenn Ich Heut Nicht Deinen Lieb Beruhre (Das Buch der Hangenden Garten, Op 15) Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Iain Burnside (piano) String Quartet No 2 (3rd, 4th mvts) Dawn Upshaw (soprano) Arditti Quartet Three piano pieces, Op 11 Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Five orchestral pieces BBC Symphony Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor).