Name: Mullova Ensemble: Transfigured Night
Start: 2023-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Milton Court Concert Hall

Organization

Instrumentalist

Viktoria Mullova

Violin I

Singer

Ching Ying Chien

Dancer

Barbican Centre

Orchestra

Mullova Ensemble

Conductor

Matthew Barley

Mullova Ensemble: Transfigured Night

London

United Kingdom

Milton Court Concert Hall

Mullova Ensemble: Transfigured Night: Suite Bergamasque, L. 75 Debussy (+4 More)

Public

Suite Bergamasque, L. 75

8 Lieder, op. 49

Duos for Two Violins, BB. 104

String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"

Verklärte Nacht op. 4

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV 1003

Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001

Approved

Through music, poetry and dance, Viktoria Mullova and her ensemble take us on an immersive journey into a nocturnal forest, setting the scene for Schoenberg’s profoundly moving ode to love.

A magical atmosphere created through lighting and set design invites us into the first part of the programme, which is further brought to life by Joshua Junker’s choreography as danced by Ching-Ying Chien.

Punctuated by Jasmine Morris’s electronic music using samples of Verklärte Nacht, and by verses of the Richard Dehmel poem that inspired Schoenberg, the Mullova Ensemble plays music that anticipates the themes of Schoenberg’s work. Alongside moments of improvisation, the ensemble moves from moonlit forests to romantic declarations, foreshadowing the passion of a story in which despair is vanquished by love. Then, suddenly, all special effects vanish, focussing attention on the intense beauty of Verklärte Nacht.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble