Dancing on a volcano
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Dancing on a volcano
（Leaving home : orchestral music in the 20th century / a conducted tour by Simon Rattle）
Arthaus Musik, c1996
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan
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With excerpts from: Overture to Tristan und Isolde / Richard Wagner. Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured night) / Arnold Schönberg. Symphony no. 7 in E minor / Gustav Mahler. Five orchestral pieces op. 16 / Arnold Schönberg. Elektra / Richard Strauss. Five pieces for orchestra op. 10 / Anton Webern. Violin concerto "Dem Andenken eines Engels" / Alban Berg
In English and German with French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese subtitles
Added title from pamphlet
Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano ; Gidon Kremer, violin ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Simon Rattle, conductor
Credits: Director, Peter West
LaserVision NTSC; PDM stereo; DVD
With: Biographies of the composers. Additional music tracks (60 min.) of Schönberg's Transfigured Night and Berg's violin concerto; licensed from Naxos
Arthaus Musik: 102 033
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- Richard Wagner : the Tristan chord
- Vienna 1900
- Arnold Schönberg : leaving tonality behind
- Gustav Mahler : precursor of modernity
- Richard Strauss : progressive or reactionary?
- Schönberg again : developing the twelve-tone technique
- Anton Webern : master of the small form
- Alban Berg : Requiem for a fallen culture