Human desire rears its head in twin peaks of Romantic music. One is the great sextet which begins Strauss's last opera Capriccio, a duel between an composer and a poet for the love of a Countess; the other (Transfigured Night) is a rapturous avowal of love by a couple walking in the moonlight, written long before Schoenberg turned music upside-down with his twelve-tone 'system'. Between them we hear one of our composer-in-residence Thomas Adès' most-acclaimed works, which is also based on transfiguration – in this case, on old music remade into new.
Programme
Richard Strauss String sextet from Capriccio
Thomas Adès Alchymia for clarinet quintet
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet
Artists: Julian Arp, Alena Baeva, Sascha Bota, Claude Frochaux, Tetiana Lutsyk, Priya Mitchell, Adrian Brendel, Annette Walther
Every year the Oxford Chamber Music Festival brings together some of the most exciting classical musicians in Europe to live and play together for a week. Creative sparks fly as the players exchange musical partners and tackle the widest variety of sound-worlds.
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