Webern's Vibe

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

A little peculiar of him to speak of the soprano "drowning out" the guitar." I mean women sing to a guitar all the time.

[CRCulver]

Thanks for reminding me of the goodness we used to get from Andreyev's channel before he felt forced, like so many YouTube creators, to adapt his content to the algorithm and to seek an audience wide enough for steady Patreon funding.

Every time I think I should listen to more Webern, I get distracted by the peculiar engineering on the Deutsche Grammophon recordings by Boulez. I ought to check out Boulez's earlier recordings on Columbia/Sony. Anyone have recommendations for other cycles, besides Craft's?

[Philo]

Even though I'm supposed to be focusing on Dvorak's this month, I've been briefly sidetracked by Webern, especially his shorter works, and I'm very interested in how intentional he is, as compared to most other composers who I feel lollygag.

For example, his Cello Sonata is 2 minutes long - that's complete, that's over - how did he know he was done? How?

Okay, I now have the history behind the Cello Sonata, so replace that with the Piano Variations for the example.

[Mandryka]

Okay, I now have the history behind the Cello Sonata, so replace that with the Piano Variations for the example.

How does anyone know that anything in an art form which is not language based is over? How did Beethoven know that op 111 was finished?   Is Schubert's unfinished actually finished and Schubert was wrong to think it wasn't?