In Arnold Schoenberg’s lifetime, almost forty years separate his Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night ) from the Violin Concerto – the former still influenced by the idiom of Brahms and Wagner, the latter deriving from the richness of that later period when Schoenberg managed to combine a multiplicity of approaches within his twelve-note system.
Between post-Romantic twilight and ‘ classical ’ rigor, Isabelle Faust and her most faithful partners offer us an extraordinarily lively interpretation of some of the most remarkable pages in twentieth-century musical literature.
Here is Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht:
