Concertante Chamber Players

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The outstanding gifted artists of the Concertante Chamber Players perform three masterpieces of late Romanticism: the sextet version of Schoenbergs's "Verklarte Nachte," Richard Strausss' "String Sextet from Capriccio" and rare string sextet of "Metamorphosen." The recording was produced by Grammy Award winner Max Wilcox.

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Opus 4
Richard Strauss: String Sextet from Capriccio
Metamorphosen

An unnamed contemporary of Schoenberg was quoted as having said of the youthful Verklarte Nacht, "It sounds as if someone had smeared the score of Tristan while still wet," Yet with all its post Wagnerian excess, the work remains the only Schoenberg work heard regularly in chamber music halls, to say nothing of its moments of sheer beauty and inventiveness.

Richard Strauss, String Sextet from Capriccio, a unique piece within a piece, opens the one act opera of Strauss. Capriccio is one of the composer's most intimate and effortlessly melodic theatre pieces. Metamorphosen — While the work is scored for twenty-three strings, the Concertante play the earlier septet version of March 31, 1945, not discovered until 1990. It is an extraordinary statement in its own right, an evolvement of the Strauss compositional style. Total time:63:24

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