Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is based on Schoenberg’s late Romantic music for strings, inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem about a woman who confesses one moonlit night to her beloved that she ...

The young Schoenberg and the aging Brahms lived in Vienna at the same time for nearly a quarter of a century—and never met, as far as can be determined. Similarly, Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and ...

Astrophysicist, author and art connoisseur Dr. Mario Livio, knows that the music of Schoenberg can make listeners uncomfortable. Still, he is sure that the composer?s piece “Verklarte Nacht” ...

New renditions of Schoenberg's breakthrough work abound these days, both in the original string-sextet form and the expanded version for string orchestra. Ensemble Resonanz, the group directed here by ...

Edward Gardner finds sumptuous intensity in Schoenberg’s drama, alongside a lesser-known version by Fried and dramatic songs to frame an intriguing collection More than one piece of headily romantic ...

Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) has everything one could wish for in a work of fin de siècle Europe: haunted groves with black branches reaching into the moon, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A century ago music was looking back on one of its most productive periods. The opening decades of the 20th ...

Verklärte Nacht, 'Transfigured Night' Zubin Mehta, Conductor Bavarian State Orchestra Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Chamber Symphony No. 1 Zubin Mehta, Conductor Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Bavarian ...

All-star line-ups can be problematic in chamber music, but the depth of drama and colour in the stinging, swooning timbres identified by the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and her friends, violinist ...

Hannah Nepil talks to members of the Belcea Quartet about Schoenberg’s masterpiece Here I am sandwiched between a violinist, a viola player and a baby, discussing Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht. The ...