Towards Verklärte Nacht

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Release Date: 20th May 2016
Catalogue No: 95288
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 64 minutes

Excerpt, Bach, J S: Musical Offering, BWV1079

Work length6:25

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Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

Ricercar a 6

Track length6:25

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Brahms: 6 Gesänge, Op. 3, No. 1. Liebestreu

Work length2:22

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Gabriella Sborgi, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet and Alessandro Maria Carnelli, Gabriella Sborgi
Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

6 Gesänge, Op. 3: No. 1, Liebestreu (Arr. A.M. Carnelli for voice and string sextet)

Track length2:22

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Schoenberg: 8 Lieder, Op. 6, No. 1. Traumleben

Work length4:53

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Gabriella Sborgi, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet and Alessandro Maria Carnelli, Gabriella Sborgi
Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

8 Lieder, Op. 6: No. 1, Traumleben (Arr. A.M. Carnelli for voice and string sextet)

Track length4:53

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Berg: 7 Frühe Lieder (7 Early Songs), No. 3. Die Nachtigall

Work length2:05

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Gabriella Sborgi, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet and Alessandro Maria Carnelli, Gabriella Sborgi
Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

7 Frühe Lieder [7 Early Songs]: No. 3, Die Nachtigall [arr. A.M. Carnelli for voice and string sextet]

Track length2:05

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Zemlinsky: Ein Stück aus dem Leben eines Menschen

Work length3:21

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Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

I. Schicksal

Track length3:21

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Zemlinsky: Maiblumen blühten überall

Work length9:47

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Gabriella Sborgi, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet and Alessandro Maria Carnelli, Gabriella Sborgi
Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

Maiblumen bluhten uberall

Track length9:47

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Schoenberg: Toter Winkel for string sextet (fragment)

Work length2:04

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Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

Schoenberg: Ein Harfenklang

Work length0:21

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Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

Schoenberg: Fragment in G Minor

Work length0:39

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Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Work length28:34

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Gabriella Sborgi, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet and Alessandro Maria Carnelli, Gabriella Sborgi
Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

Sehr langsam

Track length2:52

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Track length9:25

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Schwer betont —

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Sehr breit und langsam —

Track length9:43

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Sehr ruhig

Track length4:17

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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (excerpts) [arr. A.M. Carnelli] [Transfigured Night]

Work length4:04

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Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, sextet
Alessandro Maria Carnelli

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The idea for this album came to conductor and author Alessandro Maria Carnelli as he was researching his new book about Schoenberg’s entrancing work Verklärte Nacht. Delving into the background of this piece for string sextet – one of Schoenberg’s most important early works – he discovered that the composer’s influences came from diverse and interesting sources. Always fascinated by counterpoint (as shown later by his experiments in twelve‐tone technique), this stemmed from an appreciation of J.S. Bach, who is represented here in a six‐part ricercar; not specified for string sextet but a highly satisfactory choice for the ensemble nonetheless.

More contemporary influences included Brahms, who composed two string sextets himself, and who also influenced Schoenberg’s student Berg. Zemlinsky was highly regarded by Schoenberg – who went on to marry the composer’s sister – and as the two men collaborated together, they both wrote pieces for string sextet, including Zemlinsky’s Maiblumen blühten überall, featuring the unusual addition of a female voice.

Schoenberg’s composition Verklärte Nacht was born out of the combined influence of these great men who had gone before him, as well as the discovery of Dehmel’s poem Verklärte Nacht, which chimed perfectly with his wish to write for sextet. This album features not only the complete sections but also Carnelli’s own reconstruction of the first version of the transition between sections 1 and 2, later crossed out by the composer. It features world class musicians from the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova as well as mezzo Gabriella Sborgi, an established singer in her home country of Italy, described by Bob Kettelson as ‘exceedingly musical’.

Towards Verklärte Nacht

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