Strauss, Debussy and Ligeti

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This new, clear and light-footed recording [of the Strauss] helps to hide its excesses, with Nott (and Pentatone’s engineers) preventing the work’s arteries from clogging up…The Debussy…is beautifully... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

Release Date: 21st Sep 2018
Catalogue No: PTC5186721
Label: Pentatone
Length: 72 minutes

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Strauss, R: Schlagobers, Op. 70: Suite

Work length42:08

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott
Recorded: June 2018
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

I. In der Konditorküche

Track length3:31

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II. Tanz der Teeblüte

Track length3:51

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III. Tanz des Kaffee's - Träumerei

Track length7:19

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IV. Schlagoberswalzer

Track length5:43

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V. Einzug der Prinzessin - Tanz der Prinzessin

Track length6:45

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VI. Tanz der kleinen Pralinees - Springtanz - Galopp

Track length4:10

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VII. Menuett - Pas de deux

Track length4:39

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VIII. Finale. Allgemeiner Tanz

Track length6:10

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Debussy: Jeux - Poème dansé

Work length17:18

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott

Ligeti: Melodien for orchestra

Work length12:59

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott

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This album presents extraordinary works of three twentieth-century composers with diverse cultural backgrounds, underlining the versatility and legacy of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in its centenary year. Richard Strauss’ Schlagobers (Whipped Cream, 1924) is a playful ballet set in a Viennese Konditorei, of which the orchestral suite is featured on this album. With its lively mix of Viennese waltzes and modern harmonies, light-versed tunes interspersed by sudden outbreaks of ravishing beauty, all brilliantly orchestrated, it can be considered a further exploration of the composer’s “Rosenkavalier style”. Claude Debussy is featured with Jeux, Poeme dansé (1912), another piece created for a ballet performance, built around an erotic nocturnal search for a lost tennis ball that Pierre Boulez characterized as a “Prélude a-l’Apres-midi d’une Faune in sports clothes”. Debussy’s Jeux has been a major source of inspiration for post-war avantgarde composers such as Boulez and Stockhausen, and, therefore, the transition from Jeux to Györgi Ligeti’s Melodien, für Orchester (1971) is not jarring. Melodien has the unmistakable mix of sensuous yet eerie soundscapes that makes most of Ligeti’s works so filmic and appealing. This album adds a significant chapter to the PENTATONE discography of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which already contains the complete Bruckner Symphonies with Marek Janowski, three dance-oriented albums with Kazuki Yamada, and concerto recordings with renowned soloists such as Arabella Steinbacher, Johannes Moser and Denis Kozhukhin. On this album, the OSR’s new chief conductor Jonathan Nott makes his PENTATONE debut.

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December 2018

This new, clear and light-footed recording [of the Strauss] helps to hide its excesses, with Nott (and Pentatone’s engineers) preventing the work’s arteries from clogging up…The Debussy…is beautifully unrushed and clear. The Ligeti is expert, authoritative and properly disquieting – as one would expect from a conductor with a track record like Nott’s. A fascinating, surprising and revealing programme.

Strauss, Debussy and Ligeti

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