Arnold Schoenberg - Transfigured Night for String Sextet, Op. 4

[@eduardresbier8668]

art is the highest form of hope

[@colinhodgetts5476]

It is so pleasant to have a video director happy to keep the camera fixed on the players. No jumping around to distract us from the music.

[@urzathehappy72]

colin hodgetts constantly changing angles makes me nauseous

[@jayeffvee8729]

Beautiful composition

[@PianoMeSasha]

just close your eyes? if its not tooo jumpy like a hand held, i very much seeing diff angles and close ups.

[@BlackBunn1e]

Really helps you imagine you're there as part of the audience, and lets you take in the performance how you wish. So freeing!

[@robertallen6710]

Yes...agree, very pleasant indeed...

[@isakgaines3381]

This piece is the reason I started writing chamber music

[@britdude74]

I honestly just can’t get over this performance... I keep coming back!

[@adrianapatriciagarciaagude9523]

It's one of the best performances I've ever heard. The composition is too beautiful

[@instrumentalmusicsv]

2:03 Björk - Hidden Place

[@phantasy8139]

thx, that’s what i’m was looking for

[@britdude74]

This is just beyond beautiful. I am speechless.

[@BlackBunn1e]

I love this performance. I've watched it three times in the last week. Y'all did amazingly and I'm so glad this performance was captured. Your chemistry and talent are inspiring. 😊

[@peterbeck5808]

This is the most beautiful thing I have heard in a very long time, you should be proud of your performance of this great music.

[@supermasterpip]

This piece always makes me tearful.....the sincerity of the music is so wonderful.

[@eppiehemsley6556]

A music colleague of mine once paid to hear this piece at a concert and he cried for his money back.

[@alexkije]

The story is a tear-jerker!

[@ernestoalaimo]

Great performance! Thank you :) and, of course, thanks Schoenberg forever...

[@nogrits4me]

Schoenberg was inspired by Richard Dehmel's poem of the same name. If you know the story of the poem, the music is transcendent as are the two characters in the poem. I wish that I could be a musician. I'm not, yet I "understand" every note of this wondrous music.

[@johngayton2078]

Art at its highest point. Oh man, why are you so creative in finding beauty and so creative in your own destruction?

[@ankorina]

same power-two aspectos of the same coin- part of our duality

[@Michael-cl9mb]

As long as cultural rewards prize destruction humans will have incentives for annihilation of life.

[@residencyfellowship4533]

Jordan hall is great (and almost always free to the public!), and a sublime recording of very talented players, thank you NEC for your amazing programming. It is one of the best things about living in Boston

[@zero8795]

the sextet version is better than the string orchestra version. and this sextet played it amazingly.

[@MaxenceMouries]

Debatable

[@DieFlabbergast]

@@MaxenceMouries Matter of taste. The same could be said, or not, about many works that have been re-orchestrated. One that particularly springs to mind is the famous adagio from Samuel Barber's string quartet.

[@josechrist3948]

What an outstanding performance! Not only it is on the highest musical level, the intentions of Schoenberg connected with the brewing athmosphere in Vienna around 1900 is perfectly matched! Thanks very much for this magnificient music!!!

[@robertallen6710]

Very mature rendition from such young players...bravo!

[@bufanzhu5540]

love this woman who plays the cello in this piece. So talented and smart, very emotional, I would love to see more of her performance.

[@deserthighways4095]

what makes you think she's smart?

[@Johnwilkinsonofficial]

@@deserthighways4095 the intelligence with which she plays.

[@loïs-doorou]

Little bit late but her name is wrote in the description: Emileigh Vandiver

[@charlesmchugh8811]

Beautiful and exciting! I usually hear this piece in its string orchestra arrangement. It's wonderful to hear it this way as Schoenberg intended. . Bravo to the performers!

[@InBleak]

Few have been the composers who have shot me directly in the heart. Plus this presentation is sublime.

[@anqiliumusic]

so beautiful and touching..

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This wonderful and graceful performance is immeasurable and beyond words, and comfortable to the ear and to the mind

[@mineosaurus]

オーケストラ弦楽合奏では熱くなりがちな情緒的な線が男女の様々な迷いと恐れと愛の浄化に絡み合ってゆく糸のように細く伸びたり、着れそうになったり、よじれ、太くなったり、風通しのいいアンサンブルから心の揺れがくっきりと感じられて凄くよかった。汚れのない限りない黒から薄く青白い藍まで張り詰めた戸外の冬の空気と生々しい息遣いが聞こえてくるような演奏でした。

[@britdude74]

I keep coming back to this absolutely beautiful performance. Every note, dynamic, and vibrati are so perfectly and elegantly coalesced. So proud to see that you've all independently continue to lead wondrous careers in music as well!

[@giovannafarigu1666]

I loved the way the overseas audience greeted the musicians: classical or rock music they always cheer. Wonderful!

[@houdannycomedymagic8642]

Wonderful music, great video - for posterity!

[@christianbrodiez5287]

Oeuvre de Schoenberg magnifique interprétée par ce sextuor de façon merveilleuse ; bravo !

[@ramonperaltamartinez6152]

This is woderful! So well played!! Love it

[@michaels7889]

Eloquent performance, beautifully phrased and balanced and a video well presented so that one's eyes could follow one's ears and not a cameraman's whims. Audrey Wright is a perfect choice here too. So much enjoyment to be had from this.

[@belmon38]

Wonderful performance

[@mizofan]

A masterpiece of deep rich romanticism that is also ahead of its time- admirably played here

[@johnl.godwin4928]

Beautifully done... one of my favorites.

[@claudiope]

Audrey, you were an angel flying so high but Emileigh broken my heart (specially with her breath at 16.15). Her face during the performance was the image of the feeling of this masterpiece. All were fantastic. Super played guys!!! Thankx for share it.

[@rineric3214]

Fantastic!

[@jhonviel7381]

beautiful

[@kohlemainen]

Beautiful!

[@diegoteruel7069]

Sublim version, very delicate and brilliant.How much talent! A symbolic kiss for each one!😘😘😘😘😘😘

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Bellísimo!!!!

[@denverchingombe6927]

weldone John Heiss you my iconic ispiration

[@volvera1]

Master piece. Excellent performance

[@on_idyl]

Magical!

[@_H_2023]

Love this,I don't know this piece but after a few bars you could tell it was going to be good,nicely played and nicely written.

Little memory to great composer... TODAY, 64 YEARS BEFORE Arnold SCHOENBERG died... (13 September 1874 - 13 July 1951) was an Austrian composer and painter

[@PianoMeSasha]

Hi Audrey. Well done! thanks for posting!

[@ShiddiqiBermakna]

Expressivo

[@denverchingombe6927]

Wau thats MAGICAL I love it God bless you all

[@Luke-ot6mk]

Cinema soundtrack! Amazing

[@EduardoFrigattiComposer]

Great performance! Congratulations!

[@LAMIRAL45]

This kind of music is named DODECAPHONIC, but it 's only a ROMANTIC masterpiece ! What a beautiful rendition, indeed ! It's so moving, I travel in my inner spirit with this...

[@jackfletcher1000]

I finally get it, it is beautiful.

[@awilliams468]

This is really good for six people working together.

[@Pierlover]

An absolutely magnificent performance of this incredibly difficult piece. The ebb and flow of the music and the shifting colours are managed brilliantly.

[@aarfeld]

Lovely!

[@洋阿相]

洋阿相 ようやっと探していた弦楽６重奏版の「浄められた夜」に再会しました。もう60年以上も前初めてSPレコードで冒頭の数分を聞いた時の衝撃を思い出しました（何故か数枚組のレコードの1枚だけ）12音技法の作曲家と解説書で知っていたのでちょっと身構えて聞き始めたのですが、透明な弦楽６重奏の響きとロマン派風な作風に大いに戸惑いも覚えました。この時以来ほとんど弦楽合奏の演奏形態でしか聴く機会がなかったのです。各パート複数による演奏より６重奏スタイルの方が作曲家の意図していたものに近いのではと思います。特に終曲部分の透明感は心が本当に清められていくように感じら深く感動を覚えました。

[@glennpennock7487]

love it!

[@may9299]

It is great!!!!

[@janklaassen4214]

thank you audrey,perfect audition and ensamble¡¡¡¡¡

[@marildabarrosobottino9516]

pra mim, a melhor de todas!!!

[@karusolci2924]

No excelente filme A Dama Dourada, o sexteto Noite Transfigurada, aparece em um trecho de emoção.

[@LambentOrt]

Wonderful

[@sinclairabraxas3555]

this is the best piec ever made this shit is absolutely brilliant this is GOLD my god how can you write this shit holy fuck and look these players are batshit crazy its always insane to see this amount of talent

[@mahastiaz8959]

Absolutely exquisite.

[@Marquezini1988]

Fabuloso!!!

[@vitoroliveirajorge368]

masterpiece!

[@christiandeblach9595]

Arnold is a good boy

[@eppiehemsley6556]

Arnold's my favourite. He was also a favourite with Glen Gould who knew a thing or two about 12 tone tunes.

[@spensert4933]

that's why his friends called him Arnie.

[@retner3716]

No. His music mostly is shit.

[@BlackBunn1e]

@@retner3716 It must be awful to have bad ears like yours. ;n;

[@HandlelessUser]

awesome

[@FelixCarcone]

Superb Interpretation ! Bravo

[@juan41798]

Bravo!!!

[@301250]

Beautiful......verklarte nacht

[@zockerbit1030]

I prefer this piece in a chamber setting like this to the orchestra, more suitable for a cup of tea :)

[@ramonperaltamartinez6152]

This is absolutely amazing! So touching!!

[@manuelbelisario4548]

!Que reveladores los gritos del público al recibir a los interpretes ! Los diablillos expresan así su alegría por la DROGA.

[@marcelodmenezes5349]

Belissimo!!

[@pilouetmissiou]

beautifull.... i find, me too, it is really romantic as atmosphere...what a beautifull ensemble ! thanks for sharing really

[@mojtabashepherd4802]

this is the most expressive thing that I've heard, and you say it's romantic ? .. it rips you up , how could you think this is romantic , its schoenberg the founder of expressionism in the 20th

[@leovibroz66]

it definitely rips you up

[@taugarcia352]

chill, it's her own way of viewing this piece. Everyone has their own perspectives, right? Edit: *also* this is a romantic piece *smh*

[@MorbidMayem]

@@mojtabashepherd4802 because it’s romantic, idiot. Expressionism started 20 years later.

[@giorgiociomei5030]

@Mojtaba Shepherd probabilmente è più un linguaggio legato al decadentismo, e al simbolismo 🙂

[@khool63]

schoenberg mériterait bien plus de reconnaissance planétaire tant son génie est vaste , insondable , dont l influence sur l art du 20 eme restera dans nos coeurs

[@AlvaroTirado-x5l]

Bien sure

[@jacelibarreto4960]

Linda música, maravilhoso arranjo 🎅🎅🎅🎁🎁🎁🎺🎺🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎄🎷🎺🎹⛪

[@TheCitybike]

excelent!

[@UMVELINQANGI]

Awesome

[@leandroperie]

se hice escuchar a una persona , no muy del ambiente musical, que posiblemente pensaba en apuñalarme, la tención era respirable, fumo de mi pipa de crack totalmente ofrecida en mi casilla de chapas... el traía una maldad interna incorpórea, palpable en la emoción sutil de quien aprecia el arte... por confusa que fue que hasta el día de hoy les agradezco. viví cada segundo con tensión de muerte. como la inhalación de cigarrillo de un condenado a muerte. aprecio hasta el mas ínfimo emoticón como respuesta, de todas maneras, eh sentido alguna clase de afinidad, uña comunicación interna en la esencia... que bueno que tocaron este tema, de lo contrario, en esa situación, posiblemente me hubieran matado... de todos modos no es la primera vez que le sonrió a la muerte. les deseo puertas cerradas en su camino personal.... para que las empujen.

[@luisdiazlopez3712]

No es necesario el recurso a la droga para gozar la belleza de esta musica y de tantas otras. (No puedo poner tildes en este teclado)

[@psesilva]

Awesome!!!!

[@mariannetansman459]

une merveille

[@AudreyWrightViolin]

Thank you for catching this... of course it is and I'm not sure how this wasn't noticed sooner!

[@abdelvegacompositor]

hermoso¡¡¡¡¡¡

[@bandurprod.8876]

genial!!!

[@franandrades3430]

Muy buena interpretación. Además la versión de "camara" como esta, tiene un caracter que se adecua mas a la idea de esta música

[@keiththomas795]

Hearing this work some years ago changed my view of Schoenberg. A romantic utterance of the highest order. Refreshing with just the sextet, but I marginally prefer the full strings version with its extra weight and sonority. Thanks for this.

[@abdelvegacompositor]

Bravo¡

[@carloscampitelli]

Seis notas que Schoemberg desarrolla hasta lograr un milagro.

[@hhschrader8067]

Unpretenious, transparent, endearing performance. Are these all students? I'm surprised! In my view a very likeable interpretion. Seems so much closer to what I think Schönberg meant.

[@eduardresbier8668]

excellent

[@Hank5149]

Nice ❤

[@jairozuniga8677]

Hermoso...exitante

[@Mattieval]

If I remember correctly, this piece was rejected in a competition for containing a chord that "didn't exist" in any textbooks. It's the big chord at the start of the 2nd movement, if I'm not mistaken.

[@dimitri1946]

Probably one of those flipped diminished 7ths that put Schoenberg on the musical map to start with. And all the rest was noise, as some reviewers might say.

[@Maharani1991]

It's a chord with the 9th in the bass. Happens three times. Diminished 7ths have been around since at least Bach.

[@giorgiociomei5030]

@Zee. Sì, in questo brano Schönberg usa rivolti degli accordi di nona, all'epoca vietati dai manuali di armonia

[@translucent.]

amazing romantic piece for a deconstructionist. travelling the edge between two worlds.

[@guywalker29]

Interesting sounds from audience upon their entering the stage resemble The Price Is Right.

[@alexkije]

Wondrous music based on a wondrous poem. Storyline of acceptance of a couple. Where the woman with child is not the man she is with. He accepts the child as his own.

[@marielblues]

This is my second try at Schoenberg. To my ignorant, uneducated ears, this sounds much better than Pierrot Lunaire. Not really digging it, but I must admit it's better than what I thought it would be. I'm at minute 11. I may listen for a few more minutes before I bail out and go back to Bach.

[@littlekiwi9724]

marielblues - give it many, many listens. It will reward you enormously!

[@7stringprogmetalguy616]

His later stuff takes a lot of getting into. It's gorgeous and gloriously complex but it is most definitely an acquired taste and not for everyone.

[@kevinjoseguerrarondon164]

Beautiful performance for beautiful music! Bravo! I would like to ask you, where can I find the scores? Thank you.

[@Maharani1991]

conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP03938-Sch%C3%B6nberg_Verkl%C3%A4rte_Nacht_for_String_Sextett2.pdf :)

[@urzathehappy72]

its so wierd n sublime wen shchoenberg actually creates tonal pieces

[@Maharani1991]

Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38

[@alexanderbrown1954]

If Schönberg had written nothing else in his life, this work alone would have announced him to the world as a composer of prodigious talent!

[@1bol1]

+Alexander Brown Gurrelieder?

[@alexanderbrown1954]

1bol1 Yes, that too! Great works!

[@PiEndsWith0]

+Alexander Brown Fünf Klavierstücke goddammit! That's where it's at. However, Verklärte Nacht is pristine in its own way

[@littlekiwi9724]

You almost feel his later works ruined his reputation.