Chamber Music from Marlboro - Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht, Op. 4 / Fauré: La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61
9/6/2011, 10 Tracks, 50:35
Featuring
Rudolf Serkin
Felix Galimir
Ernestine Briesmeister
Harry Zaratzian
Samuel Rhodes
Michael Grebanier
Judith Rosen
Martial Singher
Michael Tree
Philipp Naegele
Gaetan Molieri
Richard Goode
Marlboro Festival Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg
Gabriel Fauré
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Performer Biography
The Marlboro Music Festival, directed by Rudolf Serkin, was founded as a chamber music workshop for professional musicians to study and play chamber music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Verklaerte Nacht is a successful musical translation of a lyric-narrative poem by Richard Dehmel, with the music mirroring the poem's structure and moods.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in August 1960 at the Marlboro School of Music in Vermont.
Composition History
Gabriel Fauré chose nine poems by Paul Verlaine for his song cycle La bonne chanson, which Verlaine wrote to his fiancée during a happy period.
Compositional Technique
The string parts for Fauré's La bonne chanson, featured in this recording, are unusual and may have been sanctioned by the composer, possibly even conceived by him for voice and string quartet.
Composition History
Arnold Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night) was composed in three weeks in September 1899, but its first performance took four years.
Compositional Technique
Verklaerte Nacht is a symphonic poem for six string players, a novel form at a time when mammoth orchestras were fashionable.
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