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Pelleas Et Melisande Erwartung

Schoenberg (Composer), Craft (Conductor), Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra), Format: Audio CD
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Anfang -
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Lebhaft -
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Sehr rasch -
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: (Rehearsal No. 23) -
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Langsam -
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Sehr langsam -
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Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Sehr langsam
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Erwartung, Op. 17: Scene 1: Hier hinein?
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Erwartung, Op. 17: Scene 2: Ist das noch der Weg?
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Erwartung, Op. 17: Scene 3: Da kommt ein Licht!
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Erwartung, Op. 17: Scene 4: Er ist auch nicht da
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  • Performer: Silja
  • Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Conductor: Craft
  • Composer: Schoenberg
  • Audio CD (August 26, 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B001BLR7B2
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsSchoenberg's "Pelleas" and "Erwartung" with Robert Craft
By Robin Friedman HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on February 24, 2010
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) studied composition for a brief time with Alexander von Zemlinsky, but he was otherwise largely self-taught. His early compositions are lushly late-romantic in character. In 1909, Schoenberg's compositional style changed dramatically with a shift towards atonality. He would not compose in the "twelve tone" style for which he is most famous until the 1920s.

An ongoing series of releases and reissues on the Naxos label by Robert Craft and the Philharmonia Orchestra offer the listener the opportunity to explore a great deal of Schoenberg's music. In this CD, Craft and the Philharmonia perform an early work, "Pelleas und Melisande" together with a radical work of Schoenberg's early maturity, the notorious "Erwartung". This music is difficult, but it offers insight into the composer and his development. "Erwartung" is properly regarded is one of his masterworks.

Schoenberg composed "Pelleas und Melisande", opus 5 in 1902-03 under the inspiration of the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Schoenberg was unaware at the time that Debussy was setting the same text as an opera. Jean Sibelius and Gabriel Faure were among other composers drawing inspiration from Maeterlinck's drama. The story is set in a forest, and its themes are the matters of romance and mystery: illicit love, vengeance, and eroticism. Schoenberg set the story in a tone-poem for large orchestra. The work is in a single movement of approximately 40 minutes. Greeted with disdain upon its initial performance, Schoenberg's Pelleas became one of his more accessible and popular works.

Schoenberg's Pelleas owes a great deal to Mahler and Richard Strauss in its heavy, chromatic late romantic style. On first hearing, it struck me as overwrought and bloated.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Es ist dunkel"
By Brian Morgan on February 4, 2009
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This "Erwartung" is my "desert island" recording. It is utterly astonishing, with Anja Silja, one of the greatest of singing-actresses, heard in this most unforgettable and harrowing of operas. She is to Schoenberg what Maria Callas was to Bellini.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHell hath no fury like a woman scorned
By Ray Barnes on September 12, 2010
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Unlike many of the other Naxos CDs in this Schoenberg series, this one has only two works and both call for large orchestra. The Philharmonia under Robert Craft here as elsewhere is a wonderful ensemble and the sound quality is again superb. It is strongly recommended that the excellent notes be studied before playing the CD, especially Erwartung. This monodrama's character is in a state of emotional unbalance that practically makes Elektra pale by comparison. The vocal and orchestral writing is very demanding but absolutely convincing. My one minor concern about this work is that I find the coda somewhat anticlimactic. Elektra by comparison finishes with a flourish - in C major of all things. Anja Silja is superb.

Pelleas und Melisande to my ear is no more difficult to listen to than Die Frau ohne Schatten (and almost as loud in places) and one wonders why the Viennese critics disliked the premiere so much, suggesting even that Schoenberg was crazy. (I can almost sympathize with such a response to Erwartung though on first hearing!) This is a lovely performance.

This CD is warmly recommended, although it may not appeal to all tastes.
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