Konzerthaus Berlin: Christoph Eschenbach

About the Event

In this highly‐anticipated concert, hear the mellifluous sounds of classical music by Arnold Schönberg and Anton Bruckner at Berlin's treasured and world‐renowned Konzerthaus.

Arnold Schönberg himself arranged his successful late‐romatic string sextet 'Verklärte Nacht' (Transfigured Night) from 1899 for string orchestra — so masterfully that its fragile passages are wonderfully brought to bear despite the larger instrumentation.

Christoph Eschenbach conducts a much larger cast after the intermission with Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, which the composer wrote from 1881 to 1883. Meanwhile, Richard Wagner died. Bruckner wrote his mourning for his revered colleague into the coda of the Adagio, which is intoned by Wagnerian tubas and horns.