A pair of oddities is what's on offer here, but both are at the very least intriguing. The marquee attraction is the 1932 arrangement for piano trio by pianist Eduard Steuermann of Arnold Schoenberg's programmatic string sextet Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night, 1898). This was a work Schoenberg himself apparently considered susceptible to arrangement, for he himself arranged it for string orchestra. The Steuermann version became lost in the chaos surrounding the emigration of much of the Schoenberg circle to the U.S. in ...
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A pair of oddities is what's on offer here, but both are at the very least intriguing. The marquee attraction is the 1932 arrangement for piano trio by pianist Eduard Steuermann of Arnold Schoenberg's programmatic string sextet Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night, 1898). This was a work Schoenberg himself apparently considered susceptible to arrangement, for he himself arranged it for string orchestra. The Steuermann version became lost in the chaos surrounding the emigration of much of the Schoenberg circle to the U.S. in the 1930s, and that seems to be the reason for its general neglect. It is more transparent than the original sextet, to about the same degree that the orchestral version is denser. The piano part is difficult, but the Netherlands' Osiris Trio and pianist Ellen Corver get the balances and render a convincing reduction of this emotionally violent Expressionist work. The Piano Trio of Karl Weigl was begun in Vienna and finished in the U.S. in 1939. It's an enjoyable little work that...
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