Pi-Hsien Chen

Pi-Hsien Chen: Arnold Schonberg - Works for Piano

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 13, 2011

The very first striking aspect of Arnold Schönberg's Works for Piano, is that few of these piano pieces are longer than a few minutes; some of them, the fragments, are not even that long. However, their impact goes far beyond bringing absolute delight to the ear; these are works of a highly evolved artist, whose significance as perhaps the central composer of the twentieth century cannot be understated. The oeuvre represented on this album comprises his entire piano repertoire--all of ...