SCHOENBERG: Verklarte Nacht / STRAUSS, R.: Metamorphosen (Bozen String Academy, Bernius)
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- Genre: Classical
- Style: Orchestral
- Label: Carus
Late-Romantic masterworks from two 20th-century giants at different crossroads
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This album pairs Arnold Schoenberg's most accessible and famous work — one of his early pieces before moving to atonality and twelve-tone composition — with one of Richard Strauss's last and most surprising works. Both are for string orchestra, and both use the hyper-Romantic language of post-Wagnerian music. Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht," or "Transfigured Night," is a masterpiece of roiling emotion, flowing melody and dramatic inevitability. Bursting at the seams of tonality, it shows that Schoenberg made his leap into the future only after fully mastering the past.
Strauss, on the other hand, created "Metamorphosen" ("Metamorphoses") at a time in his life and career when it seemed he was a hopelessly old-fashioned has-been. It, too, is an emotive, expressive work, rivaling his early operas in mood, but with a clarity in the interplay of the strings and a distilled sense of form that speaks of long years of experience and the hard-earned wisdom of a man who has seen his own time threaten to pass him by.
It is a measure of how far playing standards have come in the past century that an obscure academy group like the Bozen Strings could record two substantial works that would've challenged the first performers to attempt them, and actually do a creditable job with both.
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Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 (version for string orchestra)
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26:23 |
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Metamorphosen, TrV 290
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26:05 |
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02 Total Tracks, 52:28 Total Length
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