Of all early Modernism, it’s Anton Webern’s music that’s most abstract and challenging. Introducing this music in the foreword to his six-CD set of the composer’s complete works, Pierre Boulez speaks of the “purity” of Webern’s “asceticism.” […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.
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Webern, Two Songs op. 19  |
Webern, Two Songs op. 19  |
Milhaud, Le Carnaval d’Aix |
Milhaud, Le Pauvre Matelot  |
Milhaud, Le Pauvre Matelot  |
Milhaud, Le Pauvre Matelot  |
Poulenc, Chansons Gaillardes |
Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano  |
Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano  |
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