Arnold Schoenberg
Variationen Über Ein Rezitativ Für Orgel / Variationen Für Orchester (LP)
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Two sets of variations from opposite ends of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone career. The Variations for Orchestra op. 31 (1926-28) are the first orchestral work based on a row, a huge and complex score where the motif B-A-C-H appears as a homage. The Variations on a Recitative op. 40 (1941), written in America for organ, go back to tonal suggestions in a dense contrapuntal texture.
The organ work was recorded in 1967 at the Lutherkirche in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel, the orchestral one in 1959 in the Südwestfunk studio in Baden-Baden, in electronic stereo. A 1972 Wergo reissue with a 12-page insert in German.
Release notes
Track A recorded July 1967, Lutherkirche Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel (Germany), in stereo. Track B recorded 1959, Tonstudio des Südwestfunks, Baden-Baden (Germany), in mono; reprocessed in electronic stereo ("Breitklang") remastering. Includes an 12 page detailed LP-sized insert in German.
| A | Variationen Über Ein Rezitativ Für Orgel Op. 40 | ||
| B | Orchester-Variationen Op.31 |
