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Every major orchestra in the world performs Wagner, without whom nearly the entire history of 20th century music is incomprehensible, including the works of such great Jewish composers as Mahler and Schoenberg. Neither Mahler nor Schoenberg could be performed in Nazi Germany solely because they were Jews; should Wagner suffer, in principle, the same fate...
...SCHOENBERG: GUERRELIEDER. Riccardo Chailly conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony (London/Decca, 2 CDs). The high-water mark of late -- really late -- romanticism, Gurrelieder will come as a revelation to those who equate Schoenberg with the chilly 12-tone system. The fiery song cycle, really a music drama about doomed love and transcendence, gets a voluptuous Wagnerian reading from Chailly...
...SCHOENBERG: GUERRELIEDER. Riccardo Chailly conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony (London/Decca, 2 CDs). The high-water mark of late -- really late -- romanticism, Gurrelieder will come as a revelation to those who equate Schoenberg with the chilly 12-tone system. The fiery song cycle, really a music drama about doomed love and transcendence, gets a voluptuous Wagnerian reading from Chailly...
...SCHOENBERG: GURRELIEDER (London). 2 vols. This quasi-oratorio is in many ways a summation and culmination of Romanticism: a magnificent music-drama about doomed love and transcendence, it echoes Wagner's Tristan and foreshadows Mahler's Eighth. Riccardo Chailly guides the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, a large chorus and superb soloists led by Susan Dunn and Siegfried Jerusalem in this infinitely expressive, dramatically gripping performance...
...BACK to our original point. As Schoenberg did to music, we have in essence liberated ourselves from the cumbersome restraints of our chauvinistic and repressive society. (PENIS...