Home / Music / Schoenberg's second string quartet introduces a sopranoMusic linernotes album music lasalle-quartetSchoenberg's second string quartet introduces a sopranoArnold Schoenberg wrote four string quartets. The second one (1908) famously adds a soprano voice to the ensemble — a radical move that still sounds striking more than a century later. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesSchoenberg's String Quartet No. 2: atonality with a soprano and a line from another planetThree quartets have recorded Schoenberg's complete string quartetsDecca Recordings captures the label's mid-70s transition between classical tradition and changing tastesDecca Recordings 1974–1976 collects three years of the Waites EnsembleAguirre soundtrack: only 2 of 9 tracks are actually from the film — the rest are compiled from early-'70s Popol Vuh sessionsExploreThe Magic Band recorded Trout Mask Replica's instrumentals in six hoursVeedon Fleece came together one night at a time, a few songs at a timeRemain in Light was improvised in the studio with no songs written beforehandKeiji Haino recorded Watashi Dake in a pitch-black studio, unable to see his own guitar neckWill the Circle Be Unbroken was captured in one or two takes per trackPrevious Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2: atonality with a soprano and a line from another planetNext Rubinstein's rejection gave Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 to Hans von Bülow