Only the most devoted fans of the Viennese school or the most avid record collectors would risk their limited financial assets on Schoenberg records. His dodecaphonic oeuvre is not for the faint hearted. So why buy records you would most likely hear only once or twice? But - as far as I am concerned - Spotify has now come to the rescue of the famous and famously unloved and misunderstood Viennese master. On Spotify, you can listen to an unilimited choice of Schoenberg records - Boulez, Pollini, etc - and sample all this obscure stuff that he produced after straying from the narrow downtrodden path. Well, and a what a nice surprise it is! All of a sudden, Schoenberg does not sound quite as forbidding as one thought. On the contrary, he begins to grow on you... After all the late romantic "debordements", his astringent style can be quite a relief. But the main surprise is that these pieces sound musical and good. Who can tell who might come next? Ligeti? Berio? Stockhausen? Thanks to Spotify, there you have them all, in all these recordings impossible to find even in the best record store in the world.
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