Mahler / Schoenberg / Chiejina- Transfigured (CD)
Known for it's championship of neglected repertoire; the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective presents a programme of works by members of the Second Viennese School; based around Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Probably Schoenberg's best-known piece - in either of it's two orchestral versions or the original string sextet version heard here; Verklärte Nacht is certainly not neglected! The Collective has chosen to surround it; however; with works that are much less well known; producing a fascinating and rewarding programme. Schoenberg composed the work in 1899; whilst on holiday with his friend and fellow composer Alexander Zemlinsky and Zemlinsky's sister; Mathilde; whom Schoenberg would marry two years later. Zemlinsky's Maiblumen blühten überall; for soprano and string sextet; was never completed; intended originally to be a much larger work. Webern studied composition with both Zemlinsky and Schoenberg. His Piano Quintet may; like Zemlinsky's composition; have been conceived a part of a larger work; but only this one movement was ever composed. Alma Schindler was another pupil of Zemlinsky; one with whom he developed a deep romantic infatuation. Their relationship ended when she herself fell in love with Gustav Mahler who; when they married; famously forbade her from pursuing her career as a composer. The four songs included here (arranged for soprano and string sextet by Tom Poster) are embedded in the soundworld of Zemlinsky and Schoenberg; and offer an intriguing glimpse of what she might have composed in other circumstances
Tracklist:
- Maiblumen blühten überall for Soprano and String Sextet
- Quintet for Strings and Piano
- stille Stadt
- Laue Sommernacht
- Bei dir ist es traut
- Erntelied
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Sehr langsam - Etwas bewegter - Lebhafter - Etwas belebter - Etwas zurückhal
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Breiter - Etwas ruhiger - Drängend, etwas unruhiger - Lebhaft bewegt - Tempo
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Sehr breit und langsam - Etwas gedehnt - Wieder wie früher Im Zeitmaß - Etw
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Sehr ruhig - Sehr groß
UPC > 095115227725
Format > New CD
Label > Chandos
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Known for it's championship of neglected repertoire; the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective presents a programme of works by members of the Second Viennese School; based around Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Probably Schoenberg's best-known piece - in either of it's two orchestral versions or the original string sextet version heard here; Verklärte Nacht is certainly not neglected! The Collective has chosen to surround it; however; with works that are much less well known; producing a fascinating and rewarding programme. Schoenberg composed the work in 1899; whilst on holiday with his friend and fellow composer Alexander Zemlinsky and Zemlinsky's sister; Mathilde; whom Schoenberg would marry two years later. Zemlinsky's Maiblumen blühten überall; for soprano and string sextet; was never completed; intended originally to be a much larger work. Webern studied composition with both Zemlinsky and Schoenberg. His Piano Quintet may; like Zemlinsky's composition; have been conceived a part of a larger work; but only this one movement was ever composed. Alma Schindler was another pupil of Zemlinsky; one with whom he developed a deep romantic infatuation. Their relationship ended when she herself fell in love with Gustav Mahler who; when they married; famously forbade her from pursuing her career as a composer. The four songs included here (arranged for soprano and string sextet by Tom Poster) are embedded in the soundworld of Zemlinsky and Schoenberg; and offer an intriguing glimpse of what she might have composed in other circumstances
Tracklist:
- Maiblumen blühten überall for Soprano and String Sextet
- Quintet for Strings and Piano
- stille Stadt
- Laue Sommernacht
- Bei dir ist es traut
- Erntelied
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Sehr langsam - Etwas bewegter - Lebhafter - Etwas belebter - Etwas zurückhal
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Breiter - Etwas ruhiger - Drängend, etwas unruhiger - Lebhaft bewegt - Tempo
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Sehr breit und langsam - Etwas gedehnt - Wieder wie früher Im Zeitmaß - Etw
- Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 for Six String Instruments~Sehr ruhig - Sehr groß
UPC > 095115227725
Format > New CD
Label > Chandos
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.