Arnold Schoenberg's very early composition Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) was originally composed as a string sextet, so why then is it performed on this album by a much larger string orchestra? There are certainly advantages to increasing the size of the ensemble. For one, intonation with a larger group becomes much easier to rein in, and ...
Undeniably, Karl Ignaz Weigl and his music received more attention at the turn of the twenty first century than in the five decades after his death, yet this belated appraisal was much less than a full-blown revival. With only one recording apiece for his Symphony No. 5, "Apocalyptic" (1945), and his Symphony No. 6 (1947), both in respectable ...
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