Transfigurations: Schönberg - Berg
Het Collectief
Collections of Second Viennese School arrangements have proliferated during recent years, and here Het Collectief combine the tried with the unfamiliar to a thoughtful and provocative degree.
Transfigurations: Schönberg - Berg
Het Collectief
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Collections of Second Viennese School arrangements have proliferated during recent years, and here Het Collectief combine the tried with the unfamiliar to a thoughtful and provocative degree.
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Schoenberg’s famous Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem in which a woman announces to her companion that she is pregnant by another man, is presented here in its version for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann: ‘This brilliant pianist, the creator of many of Schoenberg’s pieces, brings the story to life by entrusting the dialogue between the man and the woman to cello and violin alone’, says Thomas Dieltjens, pianist of the group Het Collectief. Anton Webern made a transcription of Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie op.9 in 1923 for the same forces as Pierrot Lunaire. This miniature orchestra, consisting of just two wind instruments (flute, clarinet), two string instruments (violin, cello) and a piano, ‘preserves great clarity in the polyphonic line’. Het Collectif asked the young composer Tim Mulleman to transcribe for the same ensemble the Piano Sonata op.1 of Alban Berg, who himself made arrangements of some of his own works, including the famous Adagio from his Kammerkonzert, also presented in this programme.
Contents and tracklist
- Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann
- Het Collectief
- Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann
- Het Collectief
- Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Eduard Steuermann
- Het Collectief
Awards and reviews
March 2023
Collections of Second Viennese School arrangements have proliferated during recent years, and here Het Collectief combine the tried with the unfamiliar to a thoughtful and provocative degree.
16th February 2023
What at first glance appears to be a fairly standard selection of some of the best known works of the Second Viennese School, is in fact anything but. For the performances here by the Belgian group Het Collectief of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and First Chamber Symphony, and Berg’s Piano Sonata and the Adagio from his Chamber Concerto, are all of chamber arrangements.
