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Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet: a guide to the best recordings

Richard Whitehouse
Friday, November 1, 2024

Schoenberg’s influential String Quartet No 2 both acknowledged and broke away from tradition. Richard Whitehouse surveys its recorded history

Arnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet encapsulates the development of his musical language from intense chromaticism to free atonality
Arnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet encapsulates the development of his musical language from intense chromaticism to free atonality

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