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  1. Verklärte Nacht op. 4

    Arnold Schönberg

    Verklärte Nacht op. 4

    In setting Richard Dehmel’s poem “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night) in his op. 4, the young Arnold Schönberg pursued the intention, as he himself said, of “attempting those new forms in chamber music which have been created in orchestral music based on a poetic idea”. Composed in September 1899 in a few weeks whilst he was on holiday, the Sexte...
  2. Verklärte Nacht op. 4

    Arnold Schönberg

    Verklärte Nacht op. 4

    In setting Richard Dehmel’s poem “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night) in his op. 4, the young Arnold Schönberg pursued the intention, as he himself said, of “attempting those new forms in chamber music which have been created in orchestral music based on a poetic idea”. Composed in September 1899 in a few weeks whilst he was on holiday, the Sexte...
  3. Stundenbilder – Bilderstunden
  4. Visions fugitives op. 22

    Sergej Prokofjew

    Visions fugitives op. 22

    Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives – 20 “fleeting visions” – in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his native country in 1918. We know from his diaries that at least some of them owe their existence to extra-musical impulses. Thus several pieces were insp...
  5. Klaviersonate Nr. 7 op. 83

    Sergej Prokofjew

    Klaviersonate Nr. 7 op. 83

    Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas 6–8 are often referred to as “war sonatas”, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is entirely focused on the essentials, and is certainly Prokofiev’s most famous piano sonata. Anyone who has heard it will not forget the hasty first movemen...