Die Jakobsleiter / Friede Auf Erden [Import]

Schoenberg (Artist), Lorenz (Artist), Tokyo Chamber Sym (Artist), Akiyama (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Disques Montaigne
• ASIN: B00000HXHD
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,220,671 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio

2. Peace on Earth (Friede auf Erden), for chorus & instruments ad lib, Op. 13

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Schoenberg's longevity is proof that he was great, December 10, 1999

By 

John Harrington (anywhere, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Die Jakobsleiter / Friede Auf Erden (Audio CD)

For decades spoil sports like "denisdiderot" below have been attacking Schoenberg's 12 tone system, saying, for example, that his music has no relation to "natural acoustics" and to the way "human beings make sense of sound". Well, last I checked, I'm a human being, one who happens to love this music, and I join musicians and music enthusiasts around the globe in praise of Schoenberg's work. The music of a "mediocre musical talent" doesn't last 50 years after his death. A talentless hack is forgotten. Schoenberg hasn't been forgotten and never will be. I dare say, though the real Denis Diderot is certainly remembered, the person below using Diderot's name as an alias will be forgotten shortly after his own death. Schoenberg will live on in the hearts and minds of musicians and music lovers everywhere as he does today.

Schoenberg's music is not for everyone, but then there's a lot in music that isn't for everyone. Try to accept that, though you may not connect with this composer, there are many who honestly do, and you may be missing something.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars mediocre - who ?, September 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Die Jakobsleiter / Friede Auf Erden (Audio CD)

Schoenberg is of course far from being a mediocre composer, whereas the "*-star" author who publishes the very same ignorant dross about every schoenberg disc he certainly hasn't bothered listening to is himself a less-than-mediocre music listener.

0 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars the "music" on this cd is proof that schoenberg is overrated, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Die Jakobsleiter / Friede Auf Erden (Audio CD)

the music contained on this cd is proof enough in and of itself that Arnold Schoenberg was a mediocre musical talent, and turned to composing in an alienist atonal style only after he could plainly see that he could not compete on tonal musical grounds with the likes of strauss, pfitzner, schreker, ravel, debussy, and the like. the man craved attention and success, and most of all, "historical significance" for himself, and therefore devised a system of composing that purposefully could not be understood, thus setting himself up as a pretended misunderstood "genius" in the romantic sense, and claiming that anyone who cried foul regarding his music was simply not sophisticated enough to comprehend his noise. Then he created a rigid mathematical system of organizing tones with no relation whatsoever to natural acoustics or the way human beings make sense of sound. If his ludicrous communistic regimentation of musical tones is not enough to prove that Schoenberg was a musical mediocrity at best, or incompetent at worst, then just listen to the garbage contained on this cd for confirmation.