Franz Schreker and Arnold Schoenberg were two of the visionary thinkers of Vienna’s music scene in the Belle Époque. Standing on the threshold between late Romanticism and Modernism, they were looking for new forms of expression. Schreker, as his dance allegory Der Wind makes clear, remained committed to the sensuous musical language of the fin de siècle. Schoenberg, too, still made use of this style in his opulent early work Verklärte Nacht, but before long he went off on a different path: for example, with the avant-garde Pierrot Lunaire, one of his masterpieces. All three works on this programme are spellbindingly infused with a rapt, dreamlike atmosphere.
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Marlene Ito violin
Stanley Dodds conductor
Naoko Shimizu viola
Tobias Reifland viola
Martin Löhr cello
Uladzimir Sinkevich cello
Egor Egorkin flute
Andraž Golob clarinet
Stefan Dohr french horn
Philip Mayers piano
Tabatha McFadyen voice
Franz Schreker
Der Wind
Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht for string sextet, op. 4
Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire, op. 21