The Listening Service Extra 7 of 12 - Expressive Melodies

Tom looks at Schoenberg’s own demonstration of how to harmonize a melody to maximum effect, using his Orchestral Variations as an example. As Schoenberg says: "There is nothing I long for more intensely than to be taken for a better sort of Tchaikovsky”. Archive audio and photos with kind permission of Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien