BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Broadcast: 4 August 1974
Schönberg composed “Accompaniment to a Film-Scene”, op. 34, for a silent film that existed only in his imagination. Schoenberg’s scenario moves through three parts: “Threatening Danger”, “Fear” and “Catastrophe”, each of which is clearly and vividly described in the music. The music itself is composed in Schoenberg’s system of composing with 12 tones related only to one another, which has the effect of sounding like strictly organized chaos, surely the effect Schönberg was aiming at.