Pianistic shock waves from 20th-century pioneers

Erwin Stein, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern in 1914

By Mark Thomas, 16 October 2017

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“so much to challenge us in these inventively rich and uncompromising pieces”

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Mark Thomas

A lifelong devotee of classical music, Mark caught the bug after listening to The Planets, The Rite of Spring and Beethoven’s Fifth when he was knee-high to a grasshopper. He has degrees in non-musical subjects and currently works as a Chartered Governance Professional, but these have proved to be mere distractions from the wonders of sonatas, concertos and symphonies. He has been reviewing for Bachtrack since 2016, plays viola and violin (very shakily) and used to sing a bit (even more shakily).

The Road to Modernism: pianistic shock waves from 20th-century pioneers