ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Schoenberg’s Suite for Piano, Op. 25 (1923) was the first large-scale piece based on 12-tone serialism. This is no dry, experimental work, however, especially when performed by Yuja Wang. She fills the dance-like rhythms of the concluding Gigue with exuberant energy and makes this notoriously challenging piece sound effortless – and as contemporary today as when it was first heard 100 years ago.