Berg, Schoenberg and Webern: Piano Music

RELEASED 2010

The Vienna school long represented the surest source of modernity and, in this, it occupies a privileged place. Listening to Schoenberg, Berg or Webern was the best way to challenge acquired habits. There was certitude at the time that what still seemed iconoclastic would soon become classical and this made the effort even more stimulating.

Here performed by the cosmopolitan pianist Jean Louis Steuerman, these piano pieces are accompanied by the photography of Michael Ackerman who, to illustrate this universe, has chosen pieces expressing specific atmospheres where is time both imbalanced and suspended. The photographer invites listeners, in all freedom, to immerse themselves musically in his suggestions.

Repertoire: Alban Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1; Arnold Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19, Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23, Suite Für Klavier, Op. 25, Klavierstücke, Op. 33a, Klavierstücke, Op. 33b; Anton Webern: Variationen Für Klavier, Op. 27

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