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Verklärte Nacht| String sextet by Schoenberg, Op. 4, composed in September 1899 and first performed at Vienna on 18 March 1902. It was inspired by a poem in Richard Dehmel's Weib und die Welt. The work was arranged for string orchestra c. 1917, revised in 1942, and given as ballet, The Pillar of Fire, at the New York Metropolitan Opera on 8 April 1942. |
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No references found | The erotic intensity of Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht followed by the overpowering emotional landscape of Mahler's Fifth Symphony made for a potent programme. Verklarte Nacht Schoenberg Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon When I went to university in 1974, I got into an elite group of chamber singers. When the house lights dimmed and Linyekula, twisting and posing his ropy, angular body, was joined by three dancers and an emcee crouching amid the wires, the five performers began Triptyque sans titre (Untitled Triptych), 2005, a sequence of poses and exchanges that reminded me, strangely, of Arnold Schonberg's early sextet Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), 1899, with its deeply entangled, inward-turning patterns of elaboration and only partial resolution. |
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