Schoenberg: String Quartet no. 3

Well, this blog started as "The 1930s culture blog", so occasionally I will go back to that subject.

Here's Schoenberg's 3rd string quartet, in a historic recording from the 1930s. It's the Kolisch quartet supervised by Schoenberg himself. he first movement in particular is just awesome.

PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4

I own this quartet in a more recent recording with the New Vienna String Quartet