Craft - Robert Craft Conducts - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Robert Craft' abiding love and understanding of Anton Webern' music have made him an internationally renowned champion of this elusive composer' oeuvre. It's utter originality, pristine architecture and refined emotionalism yield rich rewards indeed.

With neo-classical works such as those on this disc, Stravinsky showed that great music could still be composed with the simplest of means, recalling Beethoven' achievement yet using his own thoroughly modern rhythmic vitality, grace and refinement.

In 1933, Schoenberg transcribed for cello a harpsichord concerto by the baroque composer Matthias Monn. He dedicated his arrangement to Pablo Casals, whom he had met in Vienna, but Casals considered it too demanding.