Sonic Asymmetry

Arnold Schoenberg: “Piano Concerto op.42”

アーノルド・シェーンベルク：「ピアノ協奏曲op.42」

TIME COMMITMENT: 21 minutes

This pioneering concerto is an openly impulsive attempt to reconcile atonality with romantic expression and even with traces of classical structure.  Its complexity is almost purgatory; it repeatedly crushes any expectations with its all-encompassing, visionary, cubist inventiveness.  Mitsuko Uchida’s testimony in the second video is priceless.

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INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Schoenberg)

A REFLECTION

I am not I

I am this one

Walking beside me whom I do not see

Whom at times I manage to visit

And whom at other times I forget

Who remains calms and silent while I talk

And forgives, gently when I hate

Who walks where I am not

Who will remain standing when I die

Juan Ramon Jimenez – “I Am Not I”