This week in our exploration of the past 100 years of modernism in music we take a look at the legacy of Arnold Schoenberg. The 1912 performance of Pierrot Lunaire created a model of atonality that continues to influence modern composers in the present day.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire Part One
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Anton Webern – Five Movements for String Quartet, op. 5
Emerson String Quartet
Alban Berg – Violin Concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Pierre Boulez – Structures Book 1
Milton Babbitt – String Quartet No. 2
Bernard Rands – Concertino
Augusta Read Thomas – In My Sky at Twilight