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Schoenberg: Breaking harmony

Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week Gillian explores Arnold Schoenberg's expressionist masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire.

Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore present 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3's series exploring the pivotal 'modern' musical works of the 20th century, the groundbreaking composers who created them, and the radical cultural and artistic movements which gave rise to them. In this episode, Gillian explores Arnold Schoenberg's expressionist masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire of 1912 and examines why early 20th Century Vienna was the perfect environment to push the limits of the harmonic language which had been forged there centuries earlier by Mozart and Haydn.

This programme features an extract from 'Serial Offender: Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve Tone Adventure', produced by Andrew McGibbon, a Curtains For Radio production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 (first broadcast: 3rd September 2024)

Produced by Sam Phillips
A Reduced Listening production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Sun 8 Jun 2025 21:00
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Music Played

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Verklarte Nacht - III.

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras.
    • Berg: Lyric Suite & Schoenberg: Transfigured Night.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMC902150.

  • Billy Murray

    Take Me to the Cabaret

    • Waiting For The Robert E. Lee / Take Me To The Cabaret.
    • Victor.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pierrot Lunaire - XVII. Parodie

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Meesun Hong. Performer: J煤lia G谩llego. Performer: Reto Bieri. Performer: Thomas Kaufmann. Performer: Joonas Ahonen. Performer: Marko Milenkovic.
    • Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire.
    • Alpha.
    • ALPHA722.

  • Henry Hall & His Orchestra

    Hush hush hush, Here Comes the Bogeyman

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Verklarte Nacht - II.

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Ensemble Resonanz.
    • Verklarte Nacht.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    String Quartet no 2, Op.10 - IV. Entruckung

    Performer: Malin Hartelius. Performer: Gringolts Quartet.

  • Richard Strauss

    Salome, Op.54 - ending

    Performer: Malin Bystr枚m. Performer: Johan Reuter. Performer: Katarina Dalayman. Performer: Gerhard Siegel. Performer: Bror Magnus T酶denes. Performer: Hanna Hipp. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Edward Gardner.
    • Salome.
    • Chandos.

  • Alban Berg

    Altenberg Lieder 鈥� nos II & III

    Performer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Berg: Lieder.
    • Sony.

  • Albert Maria Herz

    Lieder (5) auf Worte von Stefan George, Op. 7 : no 2 An baches ranft

    Performer: Christiane Oelze. Ensemble: E-MEX-Ensemble.
    • Sterne steigen dort....
    • Genuin.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pierrot Lunaire

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Meesun Hong. Performer: J煤lia G谩llego. Performer: Reto Bieri. Performer: Thomas Kaufmann. Performer: Joonas Ahonen. Performer: Marko Milenkovic.
    • Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire.
    • Alpha.

  • Hidden Place

    • Vespertine.
    • One Little Independent.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Jun 2025 21:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3