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Dates

Thursday 07 November 2024

7:30pm at Melbourne Recital Centre Rescheduled from 1 August 2024

Featuring

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Moore director / viola

Program

R. Strauss Metamorphosen
Schoenberg Transfigured Night

About this performance

A lush work by a young Schoenberg and an elegy by Richard Strauss written in his later years are featured in this program for string orchestra led by Principal Viola Chris Moore.

  • Influenced by Goethe's poetry, Strauss composed Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings, with each playing an independent part in a masterful display of counterpoint.
  • Schoenberg also drew on poetry for his early work Transfigured Night. Based on the poem by Richard Dehmel, Schoenberg's symphonic realisation for string orchestra tells a story of conflict transfigured into unity.

Duration: approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including interval

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