Tracks

1 Grave
2 Molto Ralletando (Takt/Bar/Mesure 100)
3 Pesante (T./B./M. 201)
4 Adagio (T./B./M. 229)
5 Adagio (T./B./M. 370)
Variationen Für Orchester, Op. 31 (1926-28) - Variations For Orchestraharmonies and melodies became more complex, tonality became of lesser importance. The process of “transcending” tonality can be observed at the beginning of the last movement of his Second String Quartet (190708). That work is innovative in another respect, too: it is the first string quartet to include a vocal part. The opening words of the Finale, “Ich fühle Luft von anderen Planeten” (“I feel air from another planet”), by the poet Stefan George, have often been symbolically interpreted in the light of Schoenberg’s breakthrough to a new world of sound.