So, this really is the, the height of the German Austrian romantic tradition and conductor Christ- uh, Christian Thielemann told us that the then 25-year-old Schoenberg was still very much conforming to the romantic system of composition and that this is a very challenging piece for the orchestra.Ĭhristian Thielemann: And Schoenberg was very young and was in this, in a cage. It's an extraordinary piece, uh, presented several years before Schoenberg would unveil his 12-tone system. That music returns transfigured at the end when the night is suddenly full of hope and and wonder. And the material at the beginning, you, you can almost feel the darkness of the night and the clouds scuttling across the sky. Schoenberg originally wrote this piece for string sextet, but we know it usually in this format for string orchestra. John Schaefer: And the title Transfigured Night plays out in the music. But unexpectedly inspired by the natural beauty of the woods, the beauty of the night, he embraces the woman and offers to raise the child as her own, the two of them together. ![]() She tells her lover that she is pregnant by a man she used to know, and she is fearful of her lover's reaction now. The story of the poem and of this musical work is about two lovers walking through a moonlit forest. The first work on the program tonight is by Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, written in 1899, and based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, um, a poem from a collection called Woman and the World. Jeff Spurgeon: Conductor Christian Thielemann. So, as they are so nice in a rehearsal and so friendly, then I felt during all the years that I was relaxed, too. No, they want you to say and to do something because they know the repertoire very, very well and uh, they are curious, and they want to know your point of view. And he told us some conductors might be intimidated by giving too much direction to this esteemed group, but he said for him that hasn't been the case.Ĭhristian Thielemann: When you meet an orchestra of this quality, then you have so much respect that you don't dare to say something. Thielemann has a long history of conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, one that goes back 40 years. Now the Vienna Phil does not have a principal music director, so it's a thrill and a privilege for conductors to get a chance to, to drive this Mercedes-Benz of the orchestra world. You see what I did there? Tonight, it's the Vienna Philharmonic led by the German conductor Christian Thielemann. And both of these tales will be told by one of the most storied of European orchestras. ![]() John Schaefer: And it came out of these ultra-romantic, lush, beautiful works like for Verklärte Nacht or Transfigured Night that he wrote at the end of the 19th century. John Schaefer: You know, uh, Schoenberg is known for kind of upsetting the world of tonality, but that revolution of his at the early part of the 20th century came out of something. Jeff Spurgeon: I felt a little chi, I felt a little chill go down my spine when you said that name. ![]() And the other is for Verklärte Nacht or Transfigured Night by the Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg. He was a, a mountain climber himself as well as a composer. ![]() We'll hear his Alpine Symphony about his love of nature. One is from the German composer, Richard Strauss. We have two tone poems as they're known in music terms. John Schaefer: And oh, what tales we shall tell in the next, uh, hour and a half to two hours here at Carnegie Hall. I'm Jeff Spurgeon backstage at Carnegie Hall, alongside my fellow spinner of tales, John Schaefer Our storytellers tonight are musicians from one of the world's most celebrated orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic. Jeff Spurgeon: On this broadcast from Carnegie Hall Live, we're telling stories, two stories from Germany and Austria.
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