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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire

Valentina Barbarini and Elena Sorbi (performers)

Ensemble Prometeo & Livia Rado (sprechtstimme), Marco Angius

Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
It's hard to think of a better, more lucid recording of Pierrot Lunaire currently available on CD...The disc is made even more fascinating by the fill-up...the music is spare, oblique and often...

Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire

Valentina Barbarini and Elena Sorbi (performers)

Ensemble Prometeo & Livia Rado (sprechtstimme), Marco Angius

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It's hard to think of a better, more lucid recording of Pierrot Lunaire currently available on CD...The disc is made even more fascinating by the fill-up...the music is spare, oblique and often...

About

Die Schachtel, 'azione mimo-scenica' composed by Franco Evangelisti in 1962-1963 on an idea of the artist Franco Nonnis, represents a significant episode in the history of multimedia art. Evangelisti drew eight horizontal bands on large oblong sheets of paper and labelled them as follows: music, mimes, mimes’ voice, voice over, tape, general action, lighting, projections. The musical part is the most detailed, while for the others he merely put in sporadic indications. This performance comes from the Festival of International Modern and Contemporary Music Traiettorie, October 2010 at the Lenz Teatro, Parma, directed by Martina Traversa. Valentina Barbarini and Elena Sorbi are the performers. Special instruments were made by the craftsman, Giuseppe Bussi, to original drawings by Salvatore Sciarrino that resemble faithfully those designed by Evangelisti for the first performance of the work. There is a previous recording of 'Die Schachtel', with the soloists of the Munich Kammeroper conducted by Eberhard Schoener (DGG Avantgarde 2561 106), which made the work known to an international audience.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Moondrunk
Track length1:44
No. 2, Columbine
Track length1:54
No. 3, The Dandy
Track length1:23
No. 4, An Ethereal Washerwoman
Track length1:13
No. 5, Chopin Waltz
Track length1:32
No. 6, Madonna
Track length1:59
No. 7, The Sick Moon
Track length2:19
No. 8, Night
Track length2:08
No. 9, Prayer to Pierrot
Track length0:47
No. 10, Theft
Track length1:03
No. 11, Red Mass
Track length1:56
No. 12, Gallows Song
Track length0:17
No. 13, Beheading
Track length2:19
No. 14, The Crosses
Track length2:27
No. 15, Homesickness
Track length2:12
No. 16, Vulgarity
Track length1:08
No. 17, Parody
Track length1:28
No. 18, The Moonspot
Track length0:58
No. 19, Serenade
Track length2:24
No. 20, Homeward Bound
Track length2:22
No. 21, O Ancient Fragrance
Track length1:48
Struttura No. 1
Track length5:07
Struttura No. 2
Track length0:27
Struttura No. 3
Track length8:20
Struttura No. 4
Track length5:11
Struttura No. 5
Track length1:16
Struttura No. 6
Track length3:07
Struttura No. 7
Track length2:28
Struttura No. 8
Track length1:48

Awards and reviews

5th September 2013

It's hard to think of a better, more lucid recording of Pierrot Lunaire currently available on CD...The disc is made even more fascinating by the fill-up...the music is spare, oblique and often puzzling – but also sometimes entrancingly beautiful.
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