Towards Verklärte Nacht: Schoenberg, Bach, Brahms, Zemlinsky, Berg (2016)

Arnold Schoenberg's most popular work is one of his earliest, the brooding tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), which is most often heard in his 1917 arrangement for string orchestra. Yet the original 1899 version for string sextet is presented on this Brilliant Classics release by members of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, led by Alessandro Maria Carnelli, along with pieces that may be regarded as antecedents. This involves some speculation, for Johann Sebastian Bach's Ricercar a 6 from the Musical Offering ... Read More

Arnold Schoenberg's most popular work is one of his earliest, the brooding tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), which is most often heard in his 1917 arrangement for string orchestra. Yet the original 1899 version for string sextet is presented on this Brilliant Classics release by members of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, led by Alessandro Maria Carnelli, along with pieces that may be regarded as antecedents. This involves some speculation, for Johann Sebastian Bach's Ricercar a 6 from the Musical Offering may or may not have been on Schoenberg's mind when he composed Verklärte Nacht. Alban Berg's "Die Nachtigall" from Sieben frühe Lieder, composed between 1905 and 1908, comes too late to be considered influential, though it demonstrates that the ideas of Johannes Brahms, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Schoenberg were clearly in the air. What's missing from this exploration of Schoenberg's process is anything by Richard Wagner, whose Tristan und Isolde was an obvious influence on Verklärte... Read Less

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