Arnold Schoenberg, Herzgewächse, Op. 20 [Lucy Shelton, Da Capo Chamber Players, Oliver Knussen]

“Herzgewächse“ was similar to Erwartung in that it is not musically organized by a strict development of an evident theme. It experiments with instrumental color and range, But perhaps most interesting about “Herzgewächse,“ particularly in connection with Pierrot Lunaire, is the relationship of music to text, a relationship made even more evident by the fact that Schoenberg was beginning the text for what would become the unfinished project Die Jakobsleiter. Schoenberg was beginning to explore more deeply