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Robert Craft - Complete Music Of Anton Webern - Import 4 CD Box set Limited Edition
Robert Craft - Complete Music Of Anton Webern - Import 4 CD Box set Limited Edition
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Classical Music
December 3, 2021
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Catalog No.: 19439911902
JAN/ISBN: 194399119020
Number of Discs: 4
Country/Region of Manufacture: Import
Credits:
Robert Craft
Description:
The most important achievement of Robert Kraft, the pioneer who pioneered Webern's entire oeuvre before Boulez, is finally available on CD for the first time in the world! The works of Austrian composer Anton Webern were supposed to have a far greater impact than those of his New Viennese Music School mentor Arnold Schoenberg, who worked in Vienna through the early 1900s, but his 1945 tragedy (he went out on his balcony to smoke and lit a cigarette ), his work was largely unknown in the music world. But the stoic appeal of the work was captured in a two-year recording at Columbia Studios in New York City, supervised and conducted by Robert Kraft (1923-2015), one of the leading intellectual giants of the late 20th century, known as an interpreter of Stravinsky and contemporary music, and featuring some of America's best young performers. The complete works of Webern (released on 4 LPs in 1957), supervised and conducted by Robert Kraft (1923-2015), and recorded over a period of two years at Columbia Studios in New York by a group of young, distinguished American performers, dramatically brought the works to wide public acclaim.High Fidelity magazine described the performance as "a grand undertaking, accomplished with great success, and an understanding of Webern that will remain for a very long time as one of the major monuments of modern discography, a brilliant collaboration with Columbia Records." Kraft, who was Stravinsky's assistant in his later years and heir to his legacy after Stravinsky's death, is known above all as an interpreter of Stravinsky's works, either as a conductor or because of his efforts to popularize his work through his writings and compilation of letters, but also Since the 1950s, he has recorded many works for Columbia by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, as well as by Hindemith, Varèse, and others. The "Complete Works of Schoenberg" in the 1960s and the "Complete Works of Webern" in the 1950s were the first comprehensive recordings of the works of these two composers, and played an extremely important role in bringing their works to a wider public.Both were released as LPs in Japan, and the former was highly acclaimed, winning the "Record Academy Award" in the planning category in 1971. The latter was a monaural recording, and since a complete collection version conducted and supervised by Boulez was released in 1979, it has not seen the light of day, including reissues for sale, since the Nippon Columbia disc (RL140-43) released in 1959. This is the most important re-release in the Masters series. (1/2) Sony Music
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