Anton Webern's music performed at Casa da Música

The Thematic Cycle Music & revolution is back to Casa da Música and invites to a total immersion on the aesthetic work of Anton Webern, featuring four concerts on 20, 21, 22 and 29 April that cover different periods of his creative activity.

Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor, and along his mentor Arnold Schoenberg was in the core of those in the circle of the Second Viennese School, including Ernst Krenek and Theodor W. Adorno.

Webern's music genre was considered as rather radical due to his rigorous apprehension of the twelve-tone technique.

Reputed Arditti Quartet and acclaimed soprano Christina Daletska perform several songs alongside the Symphonic Orchestra and Remix Ensemble.

The pieces that will be presented are the romanticism of Passacaglia op.1 or the fury of Variations for Orchestra op.30., one of the most relevant pieces from Webern's Dodecaphonic series. The resident orchestras join the Choir of Casa da Música and the Daletska to perform the composer's most iconic Cantatas.

The Choir also performs Heinrich Isaac's motets, a renaissance composer who greatly influenced Webern.

"Four concerts which come as great opportunities to delight oneself with passionate, defiant and ground-breaking music by a key composer of last century's history of music", as stated by Casa da Música.

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