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The Mathilde Album - Webern, Schoenberg & Zemlinsky

Elsa Dreisig (soprano)

Quatuor Arod

Awards:

On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation...

The Mathilde Album - Webern, Schoenberg & Zemlinsky

Elsa Dreisig (soprano)

Quatuor Arod

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Awards:

On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation...

About

With this album of works by Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Webern – key figures in Vienna’s musical life in the early 20th century – the Quatuor Arod honours the woman who became Arnold Schoenberg’s wife in 1901. Mathilde was Zemlinsky’s sister and the dedicatee of her husband’s String Quartet No 2, an innovative work in both its tonal language and its integration of a soprano – here Elsa Dreisig. It was completed in the summer of 1908, a tumultuous period in the Schoenbergs’ marriage

Contents and tracklist

I. Mässig
Track length6:22
II. Sehr rasch
Track length6:40
III. Litanei - Langsam
Track length5:43
IV. Entrückung - Sehr langsam
Track length12:08
Sehr mässig (Quasi andante) -
Track length10:37
Adagio -
Track length8:58
Schnell -
Track length5:41
Andante -
Track length8:44
Langsam
Track length5:56

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Awards and reviews

  • Presto Editor's Choice
    October 2019
  • Gramophone Magazine
    November 2019
    Editor's Choice

November 2019

On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation to press the bow into the string until really decisive moments...The coupling is as unique as it is insightful, and comparisons would seem beside the point: it’s an outstanding album.

October 2019

Imaginatively programmed and superbly performed, this second album from the Paris-based string quartet is named for Mathilde Schoenberg (née Zemlinsky) and features works by her husband and brother, prefaced with a surprisingly voluptuous account of Webern’s Langsamer Satz. Soprano Elsa Dreisig is ideal ‘casting’ for Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, integrating seamlessly into the texture and delivering Stefan George’s texts with exemplary diction.

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