Het Collectief: Transfigurations

Schoenberg\u2019s famous Verkl\u00E4rte Nacht (Transfigured Night), inspired by Richard Dehmel\u2019s 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: \u2018This brilliant pianist, the creator of many of Schoenberg\u2019s pieces, brings the story to life by entrusting the dialogue between the man and the woman to cello and violin alone\u2019, says Thomas Dieltjens, pianist of the group Het Collectief. Anton Webern made a transcription of Schoenberg\u2019s 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, \u2018preserves great clarity in the polyphonic line\u2019. 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.

1: I. Sehr Langsam
2: II. Breiter
3: III. Sehr Ausdrucksvoll
4: IV. Sehr Breit Und Langsam
5: V. Sehr Ruhig
6: I. Langsam
7: II. Sehr Rasch
8: III. Viel Langsamer Aber Doch Fliessend
9: IV. Viel Langsamer
10: V. Schwungvoll
11: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
12: II. Adagio

Composer: Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg

Number of Discs: 1

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