Pairing the names of Anton Webern and Robert Craft may not necessarily bring happy memories to those who listened to the historic recordings Columbia issued in 1957 in its famous four-LP box set of Webern's Complete Works. But that may change if Naxos' all-digital series has anything to do with it. Craft has certainly been a valiant champion of Webern's music, promoting it passionately at times when only the cognoscenti of the avant-garde cared anything for it. However, the quality of his early performances was uneven, and ...
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Pairing the names of Anton Webern and Robert Craft may not necessarily bring happy memories to those who listened to the historic recordings Columbia issued in 1957 in its famous four-LP box set of Webern's Complete Works. But that may change if Naxos' all-digital series has anything to do with it. Craft has certainly been a valiant champion of Webern's music, promoting it passionately at times when only the cognoscenti of the avant-garde cared anything for it. However, the quality of his early performances was uneven, and despite the memorable presence on his recordings of the formidable Marni Nixon, who sang the taxing vocal music with aplomb, those recordings made Webern seem unnaturally dry and pedantic, and an impression was left of disjointed and not well-rehearsed music. With this installment of Craft's all-digital recordings from 2007 and 2008, a new interpretation of Webern emerges, one that is decidedly less cerebral and considerably more atmospheric, lyrical, and expressive. A lot has...
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