Schönberg, Berg & Knussen Asko|Schönberg, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Joseph Puglia + Katrien Baerts

Beautiful instrumentation art from 3 masters

For his chamber symphony, Schönberg chose an unusual instrumentation, with ten wind instruments and only five strings. This rearrangement of the proportions was widely imitated, including by Alban Berg. His subtle Chamber Concerto even calls for an ensemble of thirteen wind instruments, with piano and violin as soloists. Berg wrote the work on the occasion of Schönberg's fiftieth birthday. The programme concludes with the poignant but wonderfully beautiful requiem Songs for Sue from 2006, which Knussen composed after the death of his wife.