Symphony Opus 21
by Anton Webern
- Type: Album
- Released: 1950
- Label: Dial
- Country: Austria
- Community rating: 3.66/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
An essential early recording of the Second Viennese School's hyper-condensed, pointillist approach to the symphonic form. The extraordinarily sparse orchestration and rigorous twelve-tone construction profoundly influenced the mathematical direction of mid-century academic composition.
Genres
Descriptors: Modern, acoustic, instrumental, chamber, strings, atonal, ensemble, minimal
Tracklist
Credits
- Anton Webern - primary artist, composed by
- David Stone Martin - artwork
- Ernst Friedlander - cello
- Pro Arte Quartet - ensemble [string quartet]
- Bernard Milofsky - viola
- Albert Rahier - violin [ii]
- Rudolf Kolisch - violin [i]
- Ren茅 Leibowitz - Conductor, Liner Notes
- Paris Chamber Orchestra - Orchestra