- Drei Lieder op. 18

Anton von Webern: 1883 - 1945 Performers: Christiane Oelze, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez. Three Songs for guitar, e-flat clarinet and soprano (1925). I - 00:11 II - 01:13 III - 02:33 Schoenberg invents the 12-tone technique in 1921, and was taken very early on by his pupil Anton Webern, whose song “Mein Weg geht jetzt vorüber”, from his 5 Geistliche Lieder (1922), would already be constructed according to this technique. However, during these few years of experimenting, Webern had not yet fully developed the full potential this technique could had (retrograde, cells, inversions...) therefore he applied it in a somewhat rudimentary way in this , hearing the tone row repeatedly, but in different octaves, dynamics and rhythmic context. The instrumentation of this work is very unusual and unbalanced, but its roots lie in the rural quality of timbres that Webern was so fond of, even in the poetry that he chose. The instrumentation is also influenced by Gu