Transfigured Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective & Francesca Chiejina

• Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942): Maiblumen blühten überall for Soprano and String Sextet:
• 1 Zemlinsky: Maiblumen blühten überall for Soprano and String Sextet 08:52
• Anton Webern (1883 - 1945): Quintet for strings and piano:
• 2 Webern: Quintet for strings and piano 13:17
• Alma Mahler (1879 - 1964): Die stille Stadt:
• 3 Mahler: Die stille Stadt 03:07
• Laue Sommernacht:
• 4 Mahler: Laue Sommernacht 02:26
• Bei dir ist es traut:
• 5 Mahler: Bei dir ist es traut 01:54
• Erntelied:
• 6 Mahler: Erntelied 04:56
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951): Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4:
• 7 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: I. Sehr langsam 06:08
• 8 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: II. Breiter 08:07
• 9 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: III. Sehr breit und langsam 09:24
• 10 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: IV. Sehr ruhig 04:11
• Total Runtime 01:02:22

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Known for its championship of neglected repertoire, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective presents a programme of works by members of the Second Viennese School, based around Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht. Probably Schoenberg’s best-known piece – in either of its two orchestral versions or the original string sextet version heard here, Verklärte Nacht is certainly not neglected! The Collective has chosen to surround it, however, with works that are much less well known, producing a fascinating and rewarding programme. Schoenberg composed the work in 1899, whilst on holiday with his friend and fellow composer Alexander Zemlinsky and Zemlinsky’s sister, Mathilde, whom Schoenberg would marry two years later. Zemlinsky’s Maiblumen blühten überall, for soprano and string sextet, was never completed, intended originally to be a much larger work. Webern studied composition with both Zemlinsky and Schoenberg. His Piano Quintet may, like Zemlinsky’s composition, have been conceived a part of a larger work, but only this one movement was ever composed. Alma Schindler was another pupil of Zemlinsky, one with whom he developed a deep romantic infatuation. Their relationship ended when she herself fell in love with Gustav Mahler who, when they married, famously forbade her from pursuing her career as a composer. The four songs included here (arranged for soprano and string sextet by Tom Poster) are embedded in the soundworld of Zemlinsky and Schoenberg, and offer an intriguing glimpse of what she might have composed in other circumstances...

Francesca Chiejina, soprano
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

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