Forbidden fruits:
Wandering through a cold, bleak wood, she reveals her greatest secret to him. “I am with child, but not yours.” Verklärte Nacht (1943), which was based on a modernist poem by Richard Dehmel, challenged Viennese audiences not just because of its risqué content, but because of Schoenberg's innovative musical language. Two people melt into one; the night transforms.
Violin and viola indulge in love play in the moonlight in Mozart's Sinfonia concertante (1779). Violinist Esther Yoo (Queen Elizabeth Competition laureate) debuted with the National Orchestra, and the viola is played by Miguel da Silva, Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel since 2014.