Pina Napolitano, Wiener Concert Verein, Michael Zlabinger, Christoph Filler & Ida Aldrian Kammerkonzert: Music of Arnold Schoenberg (2023)

The exceptional Italian pianist Pina Napolitano, whose Odradek albumTempo e Tempi was selected asThe Sunday Times 2020 'Best Contemporary Classical Album', returns to Schoenberg, in whose music she specialises. With Michael Zlabinger conducting the musicians of the Wiener Concert-Verein, this release features Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Op. 42 in a new arrangement for 15 solo instruments by Hugh Collins Rice; the same forces used in Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1, and similar to those of his 'Song of the Wood Dove' fromGurrelieder, performed here by mezzo-soprano Ida Aldrian.