Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht, Berg Lyric Suite : Queyras(Vc)Ensemble Resonanz

The First World War, a crucible of artistic change, intervened between Schoenberg's Verklerte Nacht and Berg's Lyric Suite. From opposite sides of that traumatic divide, the program of each work deals with adulterous love. Richard Dehmel's poem that inspired Verklerte Nacht evokes the conception of an illegitimate child and it's pardon. The amorous dialogue between Berg and Hanna Fuchs and it's painful epilogue form the subtext to the Lyric Suite. Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras leads the Ensemble Resonanz in striking and virtuosic accounts of both these seminal works of the second Viennese school.