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Arnold Schoenberg

Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2

Saturday 12 August 2006 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)

Recorded in front of an audience at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge with the Quatuor Parisii and the soprano Rachel Nicholls, Stephen Johnson explores the ideas behind one of Arnold Schoenberg's most extraordinary pieces, the Second String Quartet, in which the composer takes the listener on a journey from the music of late romanticism to the expressionism of the early twentieth century.

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Duration:

1 hour

Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2. The online audio of this programme is truncated for rights reasons. Dur. 31 mins

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Playlist

Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F Sharp Minor

Beethoven Razumovsky String Quartet Opus 59 No 1 Second Movement bars 1 - 4

Wagner Prelude to Tristan and Isolde bars 1- 3 (piano)

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