David Atherton- Vienna: Mozart To Schoenberg

Vienna, old and new, meet on this journey from Mozart to Schoenberg and then on to Berg, Weill, Gerhard and Ligeti with David Atherton and the London Sinfonietta. Central to this anthology is the pioneering set of music by Schoenberg recorded in 1973-74 critically acclaimed for it's 'big line and attention to detail (Stereo Review) and for the "mellow but well-detailed recording' (Gramophone). The London Sinfonietta is renowned across the world as one of the most adventurous groups commissioning and performing new music. From it's inception, however, the Sinfonietta played the classics alongside new and avant-garde pieces, and this new Eloquence set traces the engagement of the group with the Viennese tradition. At the center of the set is the 5-LP survey of Schoenberg's chamber music - from the early and Wagnerian Verklärte Nacht to the late Phantasy for violin and piano - which the Sinfonietta recorded in 1973-4 to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. The recordings were bedde