This Nonesuch release features two of Arnold Schoenberg’s essential chamber works performed by top-tier classical artists at the renowned Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The album includes:
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) – a lush, late-Romantic string sextet filled with sweeping emotional intensity.
String Trio – written later in Schoenberg’s career, it reflects his shift toward twelve-tone composition, offering a gripping, cerebral contrast to the earlier work.
Featured performers include:
Timothy Eddy and Ralph Kirshbaum (cellists)
Ani Kavafian and Yuuko Shiokawa (violinists)
Heiichiro Ohyama, Daniel Phillips, and Walter Trampler (violists)
The record offers an immersive entry point into both Romantic and early atonal repertoire, interpreted by some of the finest chamber musicians of the late 20th century.