ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

To mark this year’s 150th anniversary of the birth of the father of musical modernism, we announce, in partnership with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi, plans to record the most comprehensive edition of Schoenberg’s works for and with orchestra ever produced. Projected to encompass over 10 hours of music, the edition will be issued as a series of albums between now and the end of the decade. The project makes it possible to rediscover a fascinating composer, who is as important to us now as ever before, and whose music touches and enriches us. 

The first of these presents Schoenberg’s ravishingly beautiful tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”; 1943 version). One of the Austrian composer’s best-known works, the ecstatic tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) in the revised orchestra version created by Schoenberg in 1943 is based on a poem by Richard Dehmel and tells of a loving couple on a bright moonlit night, of devotion, confusion, and deep understanding. 

The album is released digitally today on the composer’s birthday, 13 September 2024, featuring cover artwork based on one of Schoenberg’s own paintings, as will all future albums in the series.