Composer of the Week - Arnold Schoenberg - The Viennese Radical

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) 1/5. The Viennese Radical Donald Macleod assesses Schoenberg's position as an outsider in turn-of-the-century Vienna, with the battle lines between the composer and the critics drawn almost from the beginning. Erwartung (song) Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo-soprano) Hartmut Holl (piano) String Quartet in D (2nd mvt) Arditti String Quartet Verklarte Nacht Donald McInnes (viola) Jonathan Pegis (cello) LaSalle Quartet Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd (Melodram) (Gurrelieder) Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone/sprecher) Runkfunkchor Berlin MDR Rundfunkchor, Leipzig Ernst Senff Chor Berlin Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Simon Rattle (conductor).