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Arnold Schönberg - String Quartet No.2, Op.10
Performers: New Vienna String Quartet, Evelyn Lear (Soprano)

For Arnold Schönberg, the Vienna years around 1908 were a time of artistic breakthrough and severe personal crisis. His family life was jolted by an intimate relationship between his wife Mathilde and the painter Richard Gerstl, who had set up his studio in the Schönbergs’ home in the Liechtensteinstrasse (in Vienna’s 9th District) and had not only given the couple lessons but painted their portraits. The year 1907 marks the beginning of Schönberg’s activity as painter, this being yet another reflection of his need to find an artistic outlet for his inner visions. Compounding this marital crisis was his disappointment at Gustav Mahler’s departure for the United States. It was to counteract these setbacks that, in 1907 and 1908, Schönberg clearly parted ways with musical tradition, dissolving tonal harmony into atonality and entering that expressionist period of his career that would mark electrifying turn in the compositional development of our century. The Second String Quartet in F-sharp minor, op.10, represents a watershed in this evolutionary process both in the handling of material (concision of form, release from consonance) and in the history of the string quartet genre (through the addition of a solo soprano). Having completed the First String Quartet in D minor, op. 7, and the Chamber Symphony, op. 9, Schönberg now turned away from single-movement works and returned to multi-movement cycles.