Transfiguré, 12 Vies de Scönberg

A radical innovator in musical thought, Arnold Schönberg ushered in a new aesthetic era, bringing in his wake a number of emulators (Berg, Webern) but also violent opposition. A more sensitive artist than you might think, a theorist but above all a poet of sound (and colour, too: he was also a painter!), he was branded a ‘degenerate’ by the Nazi regime, and had to emigrate to the United States. With these twelve stations, in the image of the twelve tones of the scale that structure his...