Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, etc.

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Pierre Boulez's third recording of Pierrot lunaire is an intense yet intimate reading, in a recording that's positively anti-resonant, and which veers, like the music itself, between harshness... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 24th Aug 1998
Catalogue No: E4576302
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 52 minutes

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21 (1912) / Part 1

Work length11:14

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Christine Schäfer (speaker)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez
Recorded: 1997-09
Recording Venue: IRCAM-Studio, Espro, Paris

I. Mondestrunken

Track length1:39

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II. Colombine

Track length1:38

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III. Der Dandy

Track length1:11

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IV. Eine blasse Wäscherin

Track length1:24

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V. Valse De Chopin

Track length1:17

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VI. Madonna

Track length1:53

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VII. Der Kranke Mond

Track length2:12

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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21 (1912) / Part 2

Work length10:31

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Christine Schäfer (speaker)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez
Recorded: 1997-09
Recording Venue: IRCAM-Studio, Espro, Paris

VIII. Die Nacht

Track length2:09

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IX. Gebet an Pierrot

Track length0:51

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X. Raub

Track length1:07

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XI. Rote Messe

Track length1:46

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XII. Galgenlied

Track length0:17

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XIII. Enthauptung

Track length2:09

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XIV. Die Kreuze

Track length2:12

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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21 (1912) / Part 3

Work length11:02

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Christine Schäfer (speaker)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez
Recorded: 1997-09
Recording Venue: IRCAM-Studio, Espro, Paris

XV. Heimweh

Track length2:07

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XVI. Gemeinheit!

Track length1:06

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XVII. Parodie

Track length1:20

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XVIII. Der Mondfleck

Track length0:54

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XIX. Serenade

Track length2:23

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XX. Heimfahrt

Track length1:40

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XXI. O alter Duft

Track length1:32

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Schoenberg: Herzgewächse, Op. 20

Work length3:19

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Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez
Recorded: 1998

Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41

Work length16:22

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Christine Schäfer (speaker), David Pittman-Jennings (baritone)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez
Recorded: 1998-06
Recording Venue: Grande Salle

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2010

Pierre Boulez's third recording of Pierrot lunaire is an intense yet intimate reading, in a recording that's positively anti-resonant, and which veers, like the music itself, between harshness and reticence.
Boulez's second recording (for Sony Classical), with Yvonne Minton, has long been notorious as the 'sung' Pierrot, flouting the composer's specific instructions about recitation.
This time Christine Schäfer is more speech- orientated, the few fully sung notes perfectly pitched, and although slidings-away from sustained sounds are on the whole avoided, the effect is superbly dramatic in the work's more expressionistic movements. The work's strange world, half-way between cabaret and concert hall, is admirably caught.
In the Ode to Napoleon David Pittman-Jennings has a heavy voice, but he skilfully inflects the sketchily notated dynamics of the vocal part, and the instrumental backing is forceful and well nuanced. The sound may be clinically dry, but this is scarcely a serious drawback when the performance has such expressive immediacy.The disc is completed by the brief, exotic Maeterlinck setting from 1911, whose hugely demanding vocal line deters all but the hardiest. Christine Schäfer copes, while the accompaniment for celesta, harmonium and harp weaves its usual spell. A thoroughly memorable disc.

Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, etc.

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