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Work: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4

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ComposerSchoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Year1899
Work typeChamber
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La Roque d'AnthéronSextet

Festival de la Musique du Luberon
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GlasgowChamber Concert: RSNO String Sextet with Lawrence Power

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Brahms, Schoenberg
Lawrence Power; Members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

LondonNash Ensemble / Harriet Walter

Wigmore Hall
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schoenberg
Nash Ensemble; Stephanie Gonley; Jonathan Stone; Lawrence Power
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Intimate colossus: Daniil Trifonov with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

Daniil Trifonov © Dario Acosta

Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores. 

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A concert of masterworks from Ensemble 360 and guests

Members of Ensemble 360 © Music in the Round

Another day, another impeccable concert by Ensemble 360 and friends at this year’s Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

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Mäkelä and the Concertgebouw wow in Schoenberg and Mahler

Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Carnegie Hall © Chris Lee
Continuing their Carnegie Hall mini-residency, Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra dive into late Romantic works by Schoenberg and Mahler.
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Bachtrack top ten: Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg in his apartment, Liechtensteinstrasse 68/70, Vienna, 1907 © Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
Who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg? His music was met with great hostility from critics and audiences, but his revolutionary “serial” method became the foundation for musical modernism in the 20th century.

Romantic expressions: Arnold Schoenberg before serialism

Arnold Schoenberg in his flat in Vienna (1911) © Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
Schoenberg is known as the inventor of serialism, but he also worked in lush Romanticism and anguished Expressionism. Enjoy this exploration of his early work.