(1994) Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht - R. Strauss: Metamorphosen - A. Webern: Fünf Sätze Op. 33 everything was immersed in the

everything was immersed in the Russian melodies

combining three elements: the circus

accompanied on the piano by his partner of long standing Dalton Baldwin

this transcription – for which Etienne Barilier suggests the term "transposition" in the booklet - is shrouded in mystery

composed in 1834 for the great 19th-century soprano Maria Malibran and her lover

(1994) Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht - R. Strauss: Metamorphosen - A. Webern: Fünf Sätze Op. 33 everything was immersed in theHis sin of youth Transfigured Night [Verklrte Nacht] is one of Arnold Schoenbergs most popular and universally acclaimed compositions. The interlacing weave of plastic, strikingly beautiful melodic lines forms the fabric of the composition. Richard Strauss Metamorphoses is a late masterpiece, an instrumental lament in response to the tragedy of the war. Anton von Weberns Fnf Stze, Op. 5, ushered in the extremely refined, condensed and intellectual