- Audio CD (Mar 17 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Universal Music Group
- ASIN: B00000DBV6
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #47,772 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Pierrot Lunaire - Part I: 1. Mondestrunken | |||
| 2. Pierrot Lunaire - Part I: 2. Colombine | |||
| 3. Pierrot Lunaire - Part I: 3. Der Dandy | |||
| 4. Pierrot Lunaire - Part I: 4. Eine blasse Wascherin | |||
| 5. Pierrot Lunaire - Part I: 5. Valse de Chopin | |||
| 6. Pierrot Lunaire - Part I: 6. Madonna | |||
| 7. Pierrot Lunaire - Part I: 7. Der kranke Mond | |||
| 8. Pierrot Lunaire - Part II: 8. Nacht | |||
| 9. Pierrot Lunaire - Part II: 9. Gebet an Pierrot | |||
| 10. Pierrot Lunaire - Part II: Raub | |||
| 11. Pierrot Lunaire - Part II: 11. Rote Messe | |||
| 12. Pierrot Lunaire - Part II: 12. Galgenlied | |||
| 13. Pierrot Lunaire - Part II: 13. Enthauptung | |||
| 14. Pierrot Lunaire - Part II: 14. Die Kreuze | |||
| 15. Pierrot Lunaire - Part III: 15. Heimweh | |||
| 16. Pierrot Lunaire - Part III: 16. Gemeinheit! | |||
| 17. Pierrot Lunaire - Part III: 17. Parodie | |||
| 18. Pierrot Lunaire - Part III: 18. Der Mondfleck | |||
| 19. Pierrot Lunaire - Part III: 19. Serenade | |||
| 20. Pierrot Lunaire - Part III: 20. Heimfahrt | |||
See all 23 tracks on this disc
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Product Description
Amazon.com essential recording
Arnold Schoenberg claimed he had never set out to be a revolutionary. Yet the song cycle he wrote in 1912 based on proto- expressionist poems and featuring a grotesque harlequin figure, Pierrot Lunaire, still reverberates with its haunting, startling originality. This work introduced the world to a hitherto unthought-of musical landscape; to call it innovative would be an absurd understatement. What's particularly exciting about the undertaking here (Boulez's third recorded take on this music) is how utterly fresh the music sounds, its novelty unblunted and yet strangely beautiful--a far cry from the forbidding Schoenberg of stereotype. Soprano Christine Schäfer negotiates the no-man's land between spoken word and sung pitch--the technique known as Sprechstimme which Schoenberg introduced here--with fascinating nuance. She brings a cabaret-savvy sensibility to bear, along with a gripping sense of pathos, alternately sweet and acrid. Boulez treats the songs as miniatures, offering coloristic and multiperspectival--almost Cubistic--portrayals of Pierrot. For all the score's nebulous atmospherics, Boulez distills a keen, sharp clarity of line and timbre. Also included is the extraordinary song "Herzgewächse" (scored for harmonium, celesta, and harp), in which Schäfer matches her voice like a "crystal sigh" to the instrumentation. The album is filled out with Schoenberg's setting, during his exile from the Nazi horror, of Byron's bitterly ironic "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" for a baritone reciter. --Thomas May
Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Créée dans (et pour) un cabaret, Pierrot Lunaire introduit le fameux parlé-chanté (Sprechgesang) de Schoenberg, et influencera de nombreuses autres pièces vocales durant ce siècle. Le dernier enregistrement de Boulez propose une version légère, claire, qui décevra ceux qui attendent une lecture explosive. Pendant toute la première partie, Christine Schäfer chuchote le texte et se trouve sous les musiciens, sans que cela nuise à sa clarté. On est loin des hurlements qui tiennent parfois lieu d'expressionnisme ! Elle ne passera au-dessus des musiciens qu'à la seconde partie, suivant la montée progressive d'intensité de la partition. Elle semble incarner une petite fille qui rêve, qui n'ose pas rêver ce qu'elle rêve, mais se laisse parfois (mais pas toujours) déborder par son imagination. Sinistre ! L'Ode à Napoléon Bonaparte est une magnifique pièce, qui tire ici sa force de David Pittman-Jennings, très inspiré, qui chante plutôt qu'il ne récite le texte et insuffle son ardeur aux solistes de l'E.I.C. --Pierre Massé
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Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
THE pierrot for the ages
May 3 2004
Format:Audio CD
FINALLY,
a succesful recording of pierrot!
we should have known it was going to be boulez and his forces that finally delivered it.
oh, he attempted to many moons ago with an all star line up (which included bareneboim) on the sony label.
but, alas, it suprisingly fell flat. way flat.
now, with schafer (the darling voice of contemporary music)
and the ensemble intercontempolain, boulez has delvered a sardonic, emotional (yes, emotional!), revolutionary performance, in other words, exactly what it supposed to be!
how revoultionary?
well, so revolutionary that we STILL get people (read some of the negative reviews-too unconventional from bangcock, etc)that people are shocked by it even today.
get this, along with boulez's new recording of moses un aron before it goes away.
a succesful recording of pierrot!
we should have known it was going to be boulez and his forces that finally delivered it.
oh, he attempted to many moons ago with an all star line up (which included bareneboim) on the sony label.
but, alas, it suprisingly fell flat. way flat.
now, with schafer (the darling voice of contemporary music)
and the ensemble intercontempolain, boulez has delvered a sardonic, emotional (yes, emotional!), revolutionary performance, in other words, exactly what it supposed to be!
how revoultionary?
well, so revolutionary that we STILL get people (read some of the negative reviews-too unconventional from bangcock, etc)that people are shocked by it even today.
get this, along with boulez's new recording of moses un aron before it goes away.
I couldn't disagree more!!
Oct 20 2003
Format:Audio CD
This is something of a rebuttal to the one-star review submitted by an "Amazon.com Customer" where he/she states that Schoenberg embraced atonal/serial music due to his lack of genuine musical/compositional talent and to gain historical relevance. All I can say is, WHAT???????? Has this person ever heard the gorgeous "Gurrelieder" or "Transfigured Night?" Not to mention, ever encountered the sublime beauty that is "Pelleas and Melisande?" These three pieces are the epidome of late German romanticism, not unlike the works of Strauss and Mahler. I wholly accept that fact that some people find much of Schoenberg (or any Second Viennese School composer, for that matter) later works difficult to digest, but to dismiss his brilliance in such a glib fashion, was too much for me to ignore. To be frank, I haven't heard this recording but, nevertheless, I love these pieces and don't think that either they or the genius behind them, should be so easily and readily dismissed.
WHO is denis diderot???
Feb 26 2002
Format:Audio CD
That guy just has it in for Schoenberg! Well, there's no accounting for taste.
What more is to be said about this CD? It contains one of my favorite readings of Pierrot Lunaire - a spectacular monument of 20th Century music. The piece is played with all the ironic cabaret influences we'd hope to hear in this piece. The ensemble is truly together, and the sprechstimme is quite convincing - not overdone or misunderstood.
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Boulez at the height of his powers
The consummate high modernist performer, Boulez's career has been characterized by his desire to bracket himself from interpretive traditions and to formulate his approach to the... Read more
Published on Aug 10 2001
To Offset the one stars
it seems that the polarization effect schoenberg has, has misled some reviewers to rate the music on the cd, instead of the quality of the performance, which is what i personally... Read more
Published on July 5 2001 by "iechyd"
is it music?
What can I say about Schoenberg? It is not music, it is a torture for the ears!
Nelson Jose de Camargo Sao Paulo - Brazil
Published on Jun 2 2001 by Nelson Jose De Camargo
razor sharp sonorities,ferocious clarity,this is late Boulez
I listened to this modest masterwork again after some time, and it is incredible the ultimate sonoric clarity achieved here. Read more
Published on July 24 2000 by scarecrow
Wonderful!
Schoenberg's other recording of this piece (Sony) is interesting -- a soprano who sang everything (perfectly pitched, but that's not what Schoenberg wanted 99% of the time... Read more
Published on April 9 2000
Boulez gives one of the clearest representations of Pierrot
This is the best recording that I have heard of Pierrot Lunaire. Often the expressionist mood of the piece is emphasized by performers to the exclusion of the panorama of symbolism... Read more
Published on April 20 1999
Simply a 20th Century masterpiece everyone should know
Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" has been performed and recorded countless times. Its conceptual innovations today we find commonplace. Read more
Published on April 11 1999
Schafer's performance is outstanding! A great CD
I was not really a big fan Pierrot Lunaire until I purchased this CD. Very often sopranos will try to make the sprechstimme into operatic singing or go too far in the other... Read more
Published on April 2 1999 by "morrisgn"
the "music" on this cd is proof that schoenberg is overrated
the music contained on this cd is proof enough in and of itself that Arnold Schoenberg was a mediocre musical talent, and turned to composing in an alienist atonal style only after... Read more
Published on Mar 25 1999
Far too uncoventional
I bought this CD purely because I have already got Schafer's Mozart and Strass CD, which I rather enjoy. Read more
Published on Feb 24 1999
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