ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Violin Concerto. Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Nicht, version for string sextet) Isabelle Faust, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding

Almost forty years separate Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) from the Violin Concerto – the former still influenced by the idiom of Brahms and Wagner, the latter deriving from the richness of that later period when Schoenberg managed to combine a multiplicity of approaches within his twelve-note system. Between post-Romantic twilight and ‘classical’ rigour, Isabelle Faust and her most faithful partners offer us an extraordinarily lively interpretation of some of the most remarkable pages in twentieth-century musical literature.