Quote Originally Posted by Feanor
I guess it's fitting that Vienna Acoustics name some of it speakers after the "Second Vienna School", viz. Schoenberg, Webern, Berg. (And other composers who were sometime Vienna residents.) But my question to Nightflier and other Vienna owners is: Do your recall ever hearing a composition by any member of the Second Vienna School? If so, how many records of their works do you own?

I'd venture to say that the aforemetioned composers are pretty much the purview of hard-core classical lovers, such as me, and not all of us for that matter.

BTW, the Vienna Acoustics website is one of the most aggrevating that I've ever visited. I never did find a simple list of their products.
I have two Schoenberg CDs. I also have some Berg piano recordings. It's definitely not divertimento fare. What I do enjoy about them, though, is the parallels with modern abstract art. Think of listening to Alban Berg's Lyric Suite for Orchestra (http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-p...779024-9738011) while admiring Kandinsky's Black Spot I, at the Hermitage. Or how about listening to Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, Op.11 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-p...779024-9738011) while walking through Serra's Matter of Time in Bilbao (http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingl...a_tiempo.htm)?
For those who like Jazz, there are also some very interesting cross-over themes between Schoenberg's theories and modern, well, also traditional, Jazz.

But I think what you're really asking is how does Mr. Webern sound on these Weberns? There you caught me. I haven't even thought about listening to Schoenberg, Webern, or Berg on these speakers, and I should have. I'll definitely add that to my next audition and tweaking session. regarding the naming, that is precisely what Vienna was thinking, according to Sumiko. These being modern, aluminum speakers, necessitating a departure from the Bach-Mozart-Beethoven old-timer nomenclature, Vienna had to come up with something that set them apart - so they dug up these fellow countrymen, LOL. And given the relative obscurity of Schoenberg-Webern-Berg in most venues (think iTunes), one could almost argue that these speakers may have bumped sales for their recordings a tad. I purchased mine some time before, though, well before I even knew about these speakers. It was during my that-discordant-modern-stuff-doesn't-suck-after-all phase, and so I started to explore the post-Bartok catalog.

So let's dust off my Schoenberg and Berg CDs. Let's see how long I can enjoy these before the wife & kids leave the house in disgust....

BTW, this weekend we're having friends over to watch LOTR-ROTK, ext. ed. - the battle scenes should be fun.