His «sin of youth» Transfigured Night [Verklärte Nacht] is one of Arnold Schoenberg’s most popular and universally acclaimed compositions. The interlacing weave of plastic, strikingly beautiful melodic lines forms the fabric of the composition. Richard Strauss’ Metamorphoses is a late masterpiece, an instrumental lament in response to the tragedy of the war.

Anton von Weberns Fünf Sätze, Op. 5, ushered in the extremely refined, condensed and intellectual style of this truly «poetic» composer. The expressionistic Romanticism of these works is captured in all of its beauty by the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin under the direction of Misha Rachlevsky.