Following the light and joy of the opening night, ‘Nachtwache’ delves into darker colours and sonorities. Westhoff’s sonata in D minor opens the evening, followed by music by composers Scelsi and Finnis who challenge the norms of tonality and pitch. At the centre of the concert is Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, telling the story of two lovers on a moonlit walk. The sextet pushes late-Romanticism to the extreme, Schoenberg on the brink of a new era of musical history.