Relayed from the MEMORIAL HALL,
Manchester
Relayed to London and Daventry
ARTHUR CATTERALL (1st Violin), ' JOHN BRIDGE (2nd Violin), FRANX PARK (Viola),
JOHAN C. Hocx (Violoncello)
THE CATTERALL QUARTET, assisted by STEWART REDFERN (Viola), CARL Fuchs
(Violoncello)
RESPLENDENT NIGHT, ono of Schönberg's earlier works, is based on a poem by Richard Dehmel , which is prefixed to the score of the work. It embodies a fantastic, highly imaginative conception, telling of a man and a woman walking over a barren heath on a cloudless moonlight night. The woman has betrayed the faith which she owed to the man. Ho reassures her, telling her that this glorious night transfigures all things. The two pass on through the night.
The music of this work is distinctly descended from the German nineteenth-century style, and follows the general lines of statement, development, and recapitulation of ' tunes.' But there are so many tunes, and their treatment is so complex, that the most experienced musician could hardly hope immediately to follow the music in detail without the score. One should, rather, try to appreciate it as a tone-picture, and as an expression of the spirit of the poem, dominated by the atmosphere of the resplendent, moonlit night.

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