Artist: Het Collectief
Title: Transfigurations: Schönberg - Berg
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Alpha Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: fflac 24bits - 88.2kHz + Booklet
Total Time: 01:12:41
Total Size: 1.11 gb

Tracklist

01. Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): I. Sehr Langsam
02. Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): II. Breiter
03. Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): III. Sehr Ausdrucksvoll
04. Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): IV. Sehr Breit und Langsam
05. Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): V. Sehr Ruhig
06. Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): I. Langsam
07. Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): II. Sehr Rasch
08. Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): III. Viel Langsamer aber doch Fliessend
09. Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): IV. Viel Langsamer
10. Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann): V. Schwungvoll
11. Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Tim Mulleman)
12. Kammerkonzert: II. Adagio

Schoenberg’s famous Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem in which a woman announces to her companion that she is pregnant by another man, is presented here in its version for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann: ‘This brilliant pianist, the creator of many of Schoenberg’s pieces, brings the story to life by entrusting the dialogue between the man and the woman to cello and violin alone’, says Thomas Dieltjens, pianist of the group Het Collectief. Anton Webern made a transcription of Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie op.9 in 1923 for the same forces as Pierrot Lunaire. This miniature orchestra, consisting of just two wind instruments (flute, clarinet), two string instruments (violin, cello) and a piano, ‘preserves great clarity in the polyphonic line’. Het Collectif asked the young composer Tim Mulleman to transcribe for the same ensemble the Piano Sonata op.1 of Alban Berg, who himself made arrangements of some of his own works, including the famous Adagio from his Kammerkonzert, also presented in this programme.