Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Philipp von Steinaecker direction
Alena Baeva violin
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris plays Webern and Beethoven in counterpoint.
Dates
Webern Five movements for strings, Op. 5
Beethoven Concerto for violin Op. 61
Webern Symphony Op. 21
Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Op. 93
About
The city of Vienna was undoubtedly the cradle of many artistic revolutions. At the dawn of the 19th century, Beethoven fanned the flames of emerging Romanticism there. One hundred years later, Webern made a U-turn by freeing himself from tonal music. Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin disconcerted audiences in 1806 with its innovative rhetoric. Today, the work reveals the secret of its success with the radiant playing of violinist Alena Baeva. In counterpoint, Symphony No. 8, which was premiered in Vienna too, embodies the full perfection of Beethoven’s late works. Still in Vienna, Webern radically challenged musical conventions. His Five Movements from op. 5 exploit atonal language and feature some unique bold discontinuities of sound. Symphony op. 21 is a later work, following in the footsteps of Schoenberg, in which Webern adopted dodecaphonic writing. What makes these two works distinctive is the meticulous attention to detail, a trait already present in Beethoven’s musical corpus.
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