Arnold Schönberg:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 36

Theodor W. Six short Orchestral Pieces Op. 4

Igor Strawinsky:
The Firebird Suite (1919)

Schönberg, Adorno and Stravinsky – three great composers of the 20th century meet on this CD, interpreted by the inspired musicians Liana Issakadze, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and their conductor Alexei Kornienko, an expert on modern music with an emotional understanding of even the most dif? cult scores. Schönberg’s Concerto may be more important than Alban Berg’s famous Violin Concerto “To the memory of an angel” and, with its spit? re virtuosity, it caused even such brilliant artists as Jascha Heifetz to capitulate. In the hands of the soloist Liana Issakadze the work takes on the quality of a wild circus act but, at the same time, shines with musical philosophical splendour and technical authority, as if Liana Issakadze were the “violinist with six ? ngers“ who Schönberg prophecied.