Transfiguration

Album by Ludwig van Beethoven & Gustav Mahler & Arnold Schönberg & Smithsonian Chamber Players & Kenneth Slowik

First released: 1996

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 5: Adagietto
    7:37
  2. 2.
    Quartetto serioso, F minor, op. 95 (arr. Mahler): I. Allegro con brio
    4:53
  3. 3.
    Quartetto serioso, F minor, op. 95 (arr. Mahler): II. Allegretto, ma non troppo
    7:41
  4. 4.
    Quartetto serioso, F minor, op. 95 (arr. Mahler): III. Allegro assai vivace, ma serioso
    5:14
  5. 5.
    Quartetto serioso, F minor, op. 95 (arr. Mahler): IV. Larghetto espressivo - Allegro agitato
    5:25
  6. 6.
    Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
    28:19
  7. 7.
    Opening of Mahler’s Adagietto as recorded in 1926 by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
    0:57
  8. 8.
    Opening of Mahler’s Adagietto as recorded 15 January 1938 by Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic
    1:06
  9. 9.
    Opening of Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden as recorded 24 May 1936 by Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic
    0:57
  10. 10.
    Schönberg’s 1950 program notes to Verklärte Nacht read in the original English by Richard Hoffmann, Schönberg’s secretary and assistance 1948 - 1951
    10:37

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