Pierre Boulez Conducts Arnold Schoenberg: The Columbia And Sony Recordings

“I have done my best to find acceptance for the masterpieces Of Stravinsky and Schoenberg,” said Pierre Boulez. “Especially Schoenberg,” He was as good as his word. His series of Schoenberg recordings for Columbia and Sony Classical, which stretched over more than a decade, encompassed most of the composer’s output. Gramophone reviewers have called Pierre Boulez’s Schoenberg project, now collected here on 13 CDs, “an absorbing overview of a great musical modernist’s encounter with his most significant compositional precursor” and “a shining musical and critical intelligence bringing some of the twentieth century’s most challenging, memorable and neglected music to convincing life”