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Schönberg: Piano Works

Twenty-Two Years Of Schönberg, One Definitive Voice.

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Artists Pierre-Laurent Aimard

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard surveys Schönberg's complete published solo piano music — written over 22 pivotal years, from 1909's Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 to the late, curiously neglected Op. 33 pair. As Mark Berry's liner notes trace, the Op. 11 pieces mark Schönberg's arrival at "free atonality," haunted still by Brahms's late piano style before classical form is first eroded, then "savagely" destroyed. The aphoristic Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 (1911) compress drama into near-silence, closing with a piece inspired by the bells at Mahler's funeral, while the Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23 and the Suite für Klavier, Op. 25 document Schönberg's discovery of twelve-tone composition in real time — Op. 23 No. 5 standing as his first fully dodecaphonic work, the Suite his first piece built entirely on a single twelve-note row, disguised beneath the outward shape of a Baroque dance suite. The two Op. 33 pieces close the program in a more reconciled, Brahmsian spirit, looking ahead to the 1942 Piano Concerto. A longtime champion of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire who worked closely with Boulez, Kurtág, Ligeti, and Stockhausen, Aimard brings decades of interpretive authority to this landmark cycle, recorded at Teldex Studio in Berlin.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Tracklist

Total time: 55:54

1. Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11: No. 1, Mässige Viertel
03:47
2. Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11: No. 2, Mässige Achtel
09:12
3. Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11: No. 3, Bewegte Achtel
02:43
4. Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: No. 1, Leicht, zart
01:13
5. Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: No. 2, Langsam
01:04
6. Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: No. 3, Sehr langsam
01:04
7. Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: No. 4, Rasch, aber leicht
00:27
8. Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: No. 5, Etwas rasch
00:29
9. Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: No. 6, Sehr langsam
01:14
10. Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 1, Sehr langsam
01:55
11. Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 2, Sehr rasch
01:23
12. Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 3, Langsam
02:59
13. Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 4, Schwungvoll
02:07
14. Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 5, Walzer
03:26
15. Suite für Klavier, Op. 25: No. 1, Präludium
01:06
16. Suite für Klavier, Op. 25: No. 2, Gavotte - Musette
04:17
17. Suite für Klavier, Op. 25: No. 3, Intermezzo
04:16
18. Suite für Klavier, Op. 25: No. 4, Menuet
03:59
19. Suite für Klavier, Op. 25: No. 5, Gigue
03:21
20. Klavierstücke, Op.33: No. 1, Mäßig
02:15
21. Klavierstücke, Op.33: No. 2, Mäßig langsam
03:37

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Additional Information

Label
Alpha Classics
SKU
ALPHA1281
Qualities
DXD 24 Bit, DSD 256, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 128, WAV 96 kHz, DSD 64
Channels
2ch Stereo
Artists
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Composers
Schonberg
Genres
Classical
Original Recording Format
PCM 96k
Recording Location
Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany
Producer
Christoph Classen
Recording Engineer
Sebastian Nattkemper
Release Date
October 02, 2026
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Schönberg: Piano Works

Schönberg: Piano Works

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