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...arrangement for piano trio of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, made in 1932 by Eduard Steuermann, emphasized in its piano writing Schoenberg's debt to Brahms. The piece is mainly a curiosity, for the piano can hardly compensate in either weight of tone or sustaining power for the missing quartet of strings. Jon Deak's Sinister Tremors (1977), for clarinet, percussion and tape, is more theatrical than Speculum's customary fare; at one point, a table containing pie tins, boards, broken glass and other objects is knocked over, simulating an avalanche...
SCHOENBERG: VERKLÄRTE NACHT; WAGNER...
...nberg: Verklärte Nacht" (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor, 8 sides). A melodic tone poem for strings, written before Schönberg got lost in dissonances. Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
...leave the music school where he was studying to be a violinist and composing on the side. By himself he learned to play the 'cello, went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were...
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