Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire ~ Herzgew?chse ~ Ode to Napoleon / Sch?fer, Pittman-Jennings, Ensemble InterContempolain, Boulez
List Price:
Our Price: $9.71
You Save: $7.27 (43%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Brand: SchaeferEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act I, No. 1, "Mondestrunken"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act I, No. 2, "Colombine"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act I, No. 3, "Dandy"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act I, No. 4, "Die blasse Wascherin"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act I, No. 5, "Valse de Chopin"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act I, No. 6, "Madonna"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act I, No. 7, "Der kranke Mond"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act II, No. 8, "Nacht"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act II, No. 9, "Gebet an Pierot"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act II, No. 10, "Raub"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act II, No. 11, "Rote Messe"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act II, No. 12, "Galgenlied"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act II, No. 13, "Enthauptung"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act II, No. 14, "Kreuze"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act III, No. 15, "Heimweh"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act III, No. 16, "Gemeinheit"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act III, No. 17, "Parodie"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act III, No. 18, "Mondfleck"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act III, No. 19, "Serenade"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act III, No. 20, "Heimfahrt"
- Pierrot lunaire, melodrama for voice & chamber ensemble, Op. 21: Act III, No. 21, "O alter Duft"
- Herzgew?chse, song for soprano, celesta, harp & harmonium, Op. 20
- Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, for narrator, piano & strings, Op. 41
Music reviews of Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire ~ Herzgew?chse ~ Ode to Napoleon / Sch?fer, Pittman-Jennings, Ensemble InterContempolain, Boulez
Music Review: When the mmon announces apocalyptic history
Rating: 5 Stars
The first striking element is that the text is long and not at all sung: a rich poetic text dramatically spoken along several totally innovative lines. Three dimensions of the language are used to create vocal music. First the rhythm created with syllables, making them long or short. This is a basic musical element of the language and many poets have used it, even in languages that do not have such a characteristic, very often it is true in songs but also in the stage directions of a play. But such a trait was essential in Shakespeare and was basic in Purcell and Handel. The second element is intonation: Schoenberg uses something that is going to become extremely common later on with the radio. He widely uses high dives and high jumps and all variations in between to create another type of music that is amplified by the first element making the tips of the intonation lines long and thus multiplying the effect. The third element is the force and intensity of each syllable from very weak to very powerful, and this trait is a very common dramatic way to emphasize one's discourse in everyday life. Even without listening to the words we are able to hear that music that is extremely expressive. The instrumental music is then nothing but an accompaniment that also plays on the same outer aspect. It is not a melodious line, certainly not the music of a song since the text is not sung. It is a real accompaniment as it existed for example in the Middle Ages, in the Gregorian and even late Gregorian traditions and polyphonies, with variations in the balance between text and music. At times the music takes over, at other times the text is dominant. The music does not really create an atmosphere but sustains, supports and increases the atmosphere created by the voice, the diction, though a longer musical sequence can occur, for instance at the end of the 13th piece, "Enthauptung" as if the text was the beheading itself: the text is cut off from the music at the end and the music alone remains like a head or a body severed from its host. This is new though we cannot know how things were done before the recording technology made it possible to keep a trace of evanescent artistic interpretation. But it is possible to find spoken elements in operas and oratorios of previous periods, at least in the score. Prosody was a tradition in our music, a tradition that goes back to King David's codification and his music school in the Temple. Prosody as opposed to psalmody, two forms of poetry in the Bible and two forms of musical rendition of these two types of poetry (that was to become ternary with Bach's Passions: the Evangelist's prosody, the hymnal psalmody and the arias' virtuoso psalmody. But one can hear another poetical music. It is the regularity of the stanzas. Each piece is composed of three stanzas, two four-lined stanzas and one five-lined stanza. These stanzas are supported by no rhyming of any sort though, at the most some assonances and an obvious play on German feminine and masculine endings. But the pieces are built on a complex musical pattern. The first two lines of the first stanza are repeated at the end of the second stanza and the first line of the first stanza at the end of the third stanza, thus embracing the whole poem. This music of a double fading out echo creates a resonance in the text that also gives some depth to the text itself. The length of the lines is very regular, though the 12th piece "Galgenlied" has very short lines (five syllables instead of eight or nine). Moreover the whole work is divided in three parts, each composed of seven pieces. Some other numerical elements are signifying in this poem. Each piece has 13 lines. The 21 (3 x 7) pieces count 63 stanzas (6 + 3 = 9) and the complete number of lines is 819 (8 + 1 + 9 = 9 + 9 = 18 = 6 + 6 + 6). The beast of John's Book of Revelation is ever present: 666 (Revelation, 13) and three times 9 (idem, Jerusalem Bible's notes on 666). The night is dominant and the main luminary is the moon which is associated to blood and red, and to the dead and death. The negative linguistic elements are overpowering, particles for verbs, negative for nouns and words with negative meanings (blind, mute). This extremely negative vision of the night, the moon and Pierrot, the embodiment of both, is in perfect continuity with the Oscar Wilde's vision in "Salome" and Franck Wedekind's in the Lulu plays. Oscar Wilde's "Salome" was adapted to the operatic stage in 1915 by Richard Strauss. We can note that Wedekind's Lulu plays will be adapted to the operatic stage by Alban Berg in the 1930s. We could also think of the morbid vision of the moon Apollinaire develops in the same period. This artistic vision can also be found in Picasso's clowns and circus people in his blue period just before his cubist revolution. These artists are producing new forms of art due to the great technical inventions, but also they are conscious of a drama that is going to come soon, starting in 1914 and ending in 1945. The means used are images and semantic references, new forms of music and poetry, numerical rhythms and tempos, both prosody and psalmody, and vast cultural, even anthropologically meaningful references. The moon though seems to be very pregnant in that crucial period when the industrial revolution is shifting from mechanical forms to electrical forms, from machines to knowledge.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID.
Description of Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire ~ Herzgew?chse ~ Ode to Napoleon / Sch?fer, Pittman-Jennings, Ensemble InterContempolain, Boulez
No Description AvailableNo Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: SCHOENBERG,A.
Title: PIERROT LUNAIRE/HERZGEWACHSE
Street Release Date: 10/20/1998
Genre: CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
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 Sch?fer 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 "Herzgew?chse" (scored for harmonium, celesta, and harp), in which Sch?fer 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
General CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in General CDs
Andrea Bocelli - The Best of Andrea Bocelli: VivereAndrea; Release date: 2007-10-30; Music CD
Best price: $8.95
Price in other shops:
Cheyenne Jackson, Michael Feinstein - The Power of TwoRelease date: 2009-11-03; Music CD
Best price: $10.96
Price in other shops:
Il Divo - The PromiseSony; Release date: 2008-11-18; Music CD
Best price: $2.29
Price in other shops:
Cecilia Bartoli - Cecilia Bartoli: SacrificiumRelease date: 2009-10-26; Music CD
Best price: $15.81
Price in other shops:
Joshua Bell - At Home With FriendsBell; Release date: 2009-09-29; Music CD
Best price: $10.28
Price in other shops:
Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas: Deluxe Edition CD & DVDAndrea; Release date: 2009-11-23; Music CD
Best price: $16.89
Price in other shops:
Il Divo - The Christmas CollectionSony; Release date: 2005-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $5.75
Price in other shops:
The Priests - HarmonyRelease date: 2009-11-23; Music CD
Best price: $9.80
Price in other shops:
Il Divo - An Evening With Il Divo-Live In Barcelona (CD/ DVD)Release date: 2009-12-01; Music CD
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
Andrea Bocelli - My ChristmasAndrea; Release date: 2009-11-03; Music CD
Best price: $11.70
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio AbbadoRelease date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $21.37
Price in other shops:
Schoenberg: The String QuartetsPhilips; Release date: 2000-01-11; Music CD
Best price: $10.98
Price in other shops:
Arnold Schoenberg: Piano MusicJacobs; Release date: 1992-05-07; Music CD
Best price: $8.55
Price in other shops:
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (Cambridge Music Handbooks)by Jonathan Dunsby
Cambridge University Press; Published: 1992-09-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.89
Price in other shops:
Verklarte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaireby Arnold Schoenberg
Dover Publications; Published: 1994-04-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.26
Price in other shops:
Schoenberg: Piano ConcertoPhilips; Release date: 2001-04-10; Music CD
Best price: $10.12
Price in other shops:
Alban Berg Collection / Various (Coll)Release date: 2004-03-09; Music CD
Best price: $33.46
Price in other shops:
Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/ Five Pieces For OrchestraSony; Release date: 1993-07-13; Music CD
Best price: $5.30
Price in other shops:
Christine Sch?fer/ Pierre Boulez (Schumann - Dichterliebe / Sch?nberg - Pierrot lunaire)Release date: 2002-06-18; DVD
Best price: $20.24
Price in other shops:
![Complete Webern [Box Set] Image](/images/Complete-Webern-Box-Set-B00004R9F0-X.jpg)
Complete Webern [Box Set]Release date: 2000-05-09; Music CD
Best price: $45.84
Price in other shops: