Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductor: Jonathan Nott
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5186782
Release: 2021
Size: 1.52 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande – Suite
01. Act I, A Forest [1]
02. Act. I, Golaud & Mélisande
03. Act I, A Forest [2]
04. Act I, Pelléas – A Room in the Castle
05. Act I, Mélisande, Golaud, Pelléas
06. Act II, A Well in the Garden – Pelléas & Mélisande
07. Act II, Golaud, Mélisande
08. Act III, Mélisande, Pelléas – One of the Castle’s Towers
09. Act III, Golaud Appears
10. Act IV, A Room in the Castle – Golaud & Mélisande
11. Act IV, A Well in the Garden – Pelléas, Mélisande
12. Act IV, Golaud Appears – The Death of Pelléas
13. Act V, A Room in the Castle
14. Act V, Castle Maids Appear
15. Act V, The Immutability of Destiny
CD 02
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5
01. First Movement Sonata Form – Introduction. Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt
02. First Theme Group. Heftig – Sehr warm. In breiter Bewegung
03. Second Theme Group. Lebhaft
04. Scherzo with Episodes. Sehr rasch
05. Ring Falls Into the Well. Golaud Falls from His Horse
06 .Golaud Wounded in Bed. Golaud’s Jealousy
07. Pelléas & Mélisande. Love
08. Episode Ia. Sehr langsam
09. Episode Ib
10. Episode II. Sehr langsam. Gedehnt
11. Slow Movement – Introduction. Ein wenig bewegt
12. Love Theme. Langsam
13. Im Zeitmaß
14. Development. Ein wenig bewegter
15. Coda
16. Recapitulatory Finale – Recapitulation of Introduction. Sehr langsam
17. Recapitulation of First Theme. Etwas bewegt
18. Recapitulation of Love Theme
19. In gehender Bewegung
20. Epilogue. Breit
This new OSR recording presents the two most ambitious musical responses to Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1893 epoch-making play Pelléas et Mélisande Conductor Jonathan Nott has created a new suite of Debussy’s opera, which is much more extensive, and focuses more on the actual drama and symphonic development than existing suites that rely heavily on Debussy’s interludes. Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande is often perceived as relatively “amorphous”, its narrative structure obscure, leaving concealed all but the most explicit references to the drama on which Schoenberg based it. In this recording, Jonathan Nott introduces a novel track division and analytical track titles that make the music’s relation to the story much more tangible to the listener. Programming it next to the music of Debussy’s opera allows us to compare both works, and to see how the most important innovators of turn-of-the-century music responded to this haunting, Symbolist story.
Pelléas et Mélisande in a new light. This new OSR recording presents the two most ambitious musical responses to Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1893 epoch-making play Pelléas et Mélisande. Conductor Jonathan Nott has created a new suite of Debussy’s opera, which is much more extensive, and focuses more on the actual drama and symphonic development than existing suites that rely heavily on Debussy’s interludes.
Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande is often perceived as relatively “amorphous”, its narrative structure obscure, leaving concealed all but the most explicit references to the drama on which Schoenberg based it. In this recording, Jonathan Nott introduces a novel track division and analytical track titles that make the music’s relation to the story much more tangible to the listener. Programming it next to the music of Debussy’s opera allows us to compare both works, and to see how the most important innovators of turn-of-the-century music responded to this haunting, Symbolist story. The arrangement of Debussy’s music on this recording is the work of Jonathan Nott