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Recorded on 04/04/2014, uploaded on 09/03/2014

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Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
       
I.     Leicht, zart
II.    Langsam
III.  Sehr langsame Viertel
IV.  Rasch, aber leicht
V.  Etwas rasch
VI. Sehr langsam

From his lush early works to his 1947 essay “Brahms the Progressive”, Arnold Schoenberg was a composer firmly rooted in the expressive vocabulary of the nineteenth century. By the time Schoenberg composed these Six Little Piano Pieces, he had abandoned tonal harmony and rejected the excesses of late-Romantic music. However, he continued to employ the gestures and devices of earlier eras, and one can hear throughout this brief set the same yearning leaps and questioning non-resolutions in which a composer like Brahms would have felt at home.       Evan Mitchell

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.