“This is a song for you alone”: such is the invitational opening line of the first of five songs set to Stefan George poems (Op. 3) by Anton Webern (1883-1945). It’s one of thirty-one works in which ...
During a performance some years ago of Anton Webern’s String Trio, the cellist of the London Philharmonic Trio rose abruptly and stalked off stage with the words: “I can’t play this thing.” Few would ...
After hearing Anton Webern's Five Pieces for String Quartet at Kirkland House on Tuesday, I had a hard time understanding why Vienna was scandalized when it first heard this work in 1913. For these ...
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