Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, etc / Boulez, Sch„fer, et al (CD)

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• Release Date: October 20, 1998
• Label: DG Deutsche Grammophon (USA)
• UPC: 028945763026
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106521001
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This recording was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for "Best Small

Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor)."

Arnold Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' is considered to be one of the seminal modernist works of the twentieth century--several chamber works since its composition have been written for the "Pierrot ensemble"--yet its place in Schoenberg's output is a backward-looking one. In the years preceding 'Pierrot,' Schoenberg had thrown out most of the normal limits on music; with this Expressionist cabaret drama, he looked back in both music and drama. In the commedia dell'arte Pierrot was the clown, but here he is presented in a gruesome light; Schoenberg uses baroque contrapuntal procedures with modern twists.

In this recording, Christine Sch„fer executes the half-pitched, half-spoken Sprechgesang of the vocal line with appropriate hyper-emotionality. The instrumental group is tight and supportive, and the players execute their shifting roles as an ensemble with ease.

The first of the accompanying works, "Herzgew„chse," follows 'Pierrot' in opus numbering, but was actually written the year before. It is another one of the works in which Schoenberg stretched music's limits, a miniature for high voice and instruments. The "Ode to Napoleon" was written thirty years later at the height of World War II, using Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique with the reciter more as a speaker than a dramatic character.

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