Schoenberg, Fried, Lehár & Korngold: Verklärte Nacht

"More than one piece of headily romantic music was inspired by Richard Dehmel’s 1896 poem Verklärte Nacht. The most familiar remains Schoenberg’s string masterpiece, first conceived as a sextet in 1899, reworked for string orchestra nearly two decades later. This, in its orchestral version finds Edward Gardner drawing playing of sumptuous intensity but also ravishing delicacy from the strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra." - The Guardian