Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Fabio Luisi

• Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951): Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra):
• 1 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra): I. Grave 06:55
• 2 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra): II. Molto rallentando (Bar 100) 06:15
• 3 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra): III. Pesante (Bar 201) 02:27
• 4 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra): IV. Adagio (Bar 229) 09:23
• 5 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra): V. Adagio (Bar 370) 04:03
• Total Runtime 29:03

Info for Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

To mark this year’s 150th anniversary of the birth of the father of musical modernism, we announce, in partnership with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi, plans to record the most comprehensive edition of Schoenberg’s works for and with orchestra ever produced. Projected to encompass over 10 hours of music, the edition will be issued as a series of albums between now and the end of the decade. The project makes it possible to rediscover a fascinating composer, who is as important to us now as ever before, and whose music touches and enriches us.

The first of these presents Schoenberg’s ravishingly beautiful tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”; 1943 version). One of the Austrian composer’s best-known works, the ecstatic tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) in the revised orchestra version created by Schoenberg in 1943 is based on a poem by Richard Dehmel and tells of a loving couple on a bright moonlit night, of devotion, confusion, and deep understanding.

The album is released digitally today on the composer’s birthday, 13 September 2024, featuring cover artwork based on one of Schoenberg’s own paintings, as will all future albums in the series.

Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor

Fabio Luisi
is Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Danish Radio National Symphony Orchestra (DR Symfoni Orkestret), Emeritus Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI based in Torino, Principal Conductor of the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo and Honorary Conductor of Teatro Carlo Felice of Genova, his native town.

In addition to the symphonic activity with the various orchestras with which he has a privileged relation, in the 22/23 season Maestro Luisi conducts a new production of Vespri Siciliani at the Teatro alla Scala, he continues the recording of Carl Nielsen’s symphonies with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon. In 2024 will present the complete cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen” by Wagner in concert version with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra - an event never performed before by any US orchestra.

He conducts the world's most prestigious orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Berliner Philharmoniker just to name a few.

A former Principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Luisi has been honored with the Gold Medal and Gold Ring dedicated to Bruckner. His past engagements include Music Director at the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Sächsische Staatsoper, Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Artistic Director of the Leipzig Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Music Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Principal Conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester in Vienna and Artistic Director of the Graz Symphony Orchestra.

Luisi received a Grammy Award for his conducting of the last two operas of The Ring of the Nibelung, and the DVD of the same cycle, recorded live at the Metropolitan and released by Deutsche Grammophon, was named Best Opera Recording in 2012. His extensive discography includes works by Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Salieri, and Vincenzo Bellini; symphonies by Arthur Honegger, Ottorino Respighi, and Franz Liszt; music by Franz Schmidt and Richard Strauss; and his award-winning interpretation of Anton Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. In 2015, the Philharmonia Zürich launched its own Philharmonia Records record label with Luisi's interpretations of Hector Berlioz, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, to which was recently added the rare performance of the original version of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony.

Fabio Luisi was awarded the Grifo d'Oro for his contribution to the cultural heritage of the city of Genoa.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
was founded in 1925 as part of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Today, it is one of the leading symphony orchestras in Europe, performing with the world’s leading conductors and soloists. Since 2016, the Chief Conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra has been Fabio Luisi, who succeeded the late Spanish maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Former Principal Conductors and Principal Guest Conductors include Herbert Blomstedt (conductor laureate), Thomas Dausgaard, Gerd Albrecht, Leif Segerstam, Dmitri Kitajenko and Yuri Temirkanov. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra has performed with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Leonidas Kavakos, Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Leif Ove Andsnes, Lang Lang, Anna Netrebko, Daniel Barenboim, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yehudi Menuhin and Itzhak Perlman. The orchestra has toured extensively in the USA, in South America, in Japan, China and in most countries in Europe, and performed at some of the most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Musikverein – always with Danish music on the repertoire.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra has a special feeling for Danish music – from classics like Carl Nielsen and Niels W. Gade to very young composing talents. Each year more than 100,000 music-lovers experience the magic of live symphonic music with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra – both in the spectacular hall of DR Koncerthuset (designed by Jean Nouvel) and on the orchestra’s annual tour abroad. In addition to the concert audiences, the orchestra’s popular Thursday Concerts are enjoyed by half a million Danes on radio and TV, and millions the world over tune in when the concerts are broadcast internationally.

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