Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 / Suite, op. 29

Album by Arnold Schönberg & Ensemble intercontemporain & Pierre Boulez

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 / Suite, Op. 29 is an album of works by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, presenting an early late-Romantic composition (Op. 4, 1899) alongside a later suite (Op. 29, 1924). Musically it contrasts the lush, highly chromatic, string-based language of his early period with the more austere, forward-looking techniques of his later work, illustrating Schoenberg's development from extended tonality towards the modernist practices that reshaped early 20th-century art music.