Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
[ Alpha Classics / CD/Book ]
Release Date: Friday 9 April 2021
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Pierrot lunaire, premiered in Berlin in 1912, is a series of twenty-one short melodramas for voice and five instruments on German translations of poems by Albert Giraud. Here the composer first introduces Sprechgesang (speech-song), a technique that revolutionised declamation. Schoenberg wanted the piece to be ironic, at once tender and grotesque, in the manner of cabaret songs. Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the violinist who is also an occasional actress, had long dreamt of playing and reciting this unique work. It was a pain in her arm preventing her from playing the violin that one day propelled her into the role of narrator: 'All my life I have felt that I was Pierrot. Every time I played this piece on the violin when I was a student, I would say the words in my head.' She has now played and performed Pierrot in many venues around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, several cities in the United States, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden. Now she has assembled a number of her musician friends and decided to record it for posterity. Schoenberg's Phantasy op.47 and Six Little Piano Pieces op.19 complete the programme, along with works by Webern (Four Pieces for violin and piano op.7) and Schoenberg's arrangement of Johann Strauss's Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz) op.437.
Tracks:
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: I. Mondestrunken
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: II. Colombine
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: III. Der Dandy
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: IV. Eine blasse Wäscherin
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: V. Valse de Chopin
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: VI. Madonna
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: VII. Der kranke Mond
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: VIII. Nacht (Passcaglia)
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: IX. Gebet an Pierrot
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: X. Raub
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XI. Rote Messe
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XII. Galgenlied
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XIII. Enthauptung
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XIV. Die Kreuze
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XV. Heimweh
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XVI. Gemeinheit!
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XVII. Parodie
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: Der Mondfleck
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XIX. Serenade
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XX. Heimfahrt (Barcarole)
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XXI. O alter Duft
Emperor's Waltz, Op. 437
Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7: I. Sehr langsam
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7: II. Rasch
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7: III. Sehr langsam
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7: IV. Bewegt
Little Viennese March
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: I. Leicht, zart
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: II. Langsam
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: III. Sehr Langsam
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: IV. Rasch, aber leicht
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: V. Etwas rasch
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19: VI. Sehr langsam
