Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21

Release Date: 30th Jun 2014
Catalogue No: WER67782
Label: Wergo
Series: studio reihe neuer musik
Length: 31 minutes

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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire. Dreimal sieben Gedichte nach Albert Giraud, Op. 21

Work length31:56

$5.00

$7.00

Helga Pilarczyk, Maria Bergmann, Jacques Castagner, Guy Deplus, Louis Montaigne, Luben Yordanoff, Serge Collot, Jean Huchot
Pierre Boulez

Track length11:07

$2.00

$2.80

II.

Track length10:32

$1.50

$2.10

III.

Track length10:17

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$2.10

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WERGO's studio reihe series continues with a rather special CD release: Arnold Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' was the first long-playing record released by the newly founded label WERGO in 1962, which laid the foundation of the label's decades-long commitment to new music. This important recording, with the soprano Helga Pilarczyk and under the direction of Pierre Boulez, has not been available until now as Wergo releases this highlight from its early days in excellent sound quality on CD for the first time.

The musical setting of 'Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud’s ‘Pierrot lunaire’' Op. 21 was composed by Schoenberg in just a few weeks, between 12 March and 30 May 1912, to be precise. The composition was written at the initiative of the actress Albertine Zehme. Schoenberg met her shortly after he had moved to Vienna from Berlin in 1911 and dedicated the piece to her “with heartfelt friendship”.

Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21

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