Two works written continents apart but completed within a year of each other: Arnold Schoenberg’s Second Chamber Symphony (1908) and Amy Beach‘s Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor (1907).
Schoenberg & Beach
Alan Gilbert conducts a chamber orchestra in music of Schoenberg (Photo Courtesy Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival)
Playlist
Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Minor, Op. 38
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Bart Feller, flute; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute/piccolo; Liang Wang, oboe; Kyle Mustain, oboe/English horn; Anthony McGill & Michael Rusinek, clarinets; Nancy Goeres & Theodore Soluri, bassoons; Philip Myers & Julie Landsman, horns; Charley Lea & David Dash, trumpets; Jennifer Gilbert, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips & Harvey de Souza, 1st violins; Kathleen Brauer, L. P. How, Ida Kavafian & Benny Kim, 2nd violins; Lily Francis, Hsin-Yun Huang & Steven Tenenbom, violas; Timothy Eddy, Eric Kim & Peter Wiley, cellos; Marji Danilow, bass
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 67
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Orion String Quartet (Daniel Phillips & Todd Phillips, violins; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello)
