The night is a source of wonder and fascination, rich with metaphorical associations. With music spanning nearly 500 years, Through the Night features beguiling counterpoint and chromaticism. A key notion is that the night can be a space and time for change and transformation. The sense of guilt and foreboding in Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht gives way to a stronger bond of love. Full of heartache and spiritual suffering, the Renaissance works of Purcell and Gesualdo speak to the night as a state of being, and a portent of death, with each of these works transformed through arrangements for strings.
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Henry Purcell: Dido's Lament
Luigi Boccherini: Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid
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Carlo Gesualdo: Tristis est anima mea
Arnold Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht