Shchedrin: Carmen Suite & Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

Release Date: 26th Jan 2018
Catalogue No: CGC032-2
Label: CuGate Classics
Length: 75 minutes

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Shchedrin: Carmen Suite

Work length45:42

St. Petersburg Camerata, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Saulius Sondeckis

I. Introduction

Track length1:46

II. Dance

Track length2:22

III. Intermezzo

Track length1:06

IV. Changing of the Guard

Track length2:05

V. Carmen’s Entrance and Habanera

Track length3:24

VI. Scene

Track length6:50

VII. Intermezzo

Track length2:24

VIII. Bolero

Track length1:09

IX. Tolero

Track length2:59

X. Torero and Carmen

Track length4:30

XI. Adagio

Track length5:57

XII. Fortune-Telling

Track length4:42

XIII. Finale

Track length6:28

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Work length29:33

Georgian State Chamber Orchestra
Saulius Sondeckis

I. Sehr langsam

Track length6:52

II. Breiter

Track length6:02

III. Schwer betont

Track length2:30

IV. Sehr breit und langsam

Track length9:50

V. Sehr ruhig

Track length4:19

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The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, St. Petersburg Camerata, Georgian State Chamber Orchestra and conductor Saulius Sondeckis present an authentic reading of Shchedrin's Ballet Suite, based on Bizet's Carmen, with spectacular percussion solos in high definition recording technology, plus the chamber orchestra version of Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night).

Rodion Shchedrin transcribed fragments from Bizet's opera for his wife Bolshoi prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. The composer limited the orchestra to strings and percussion for two reasons: the strings compensate for the lack of human voices, and the percussion instruments underscore the choreography. The suite is made up of 13 parts and includes 15 of Bizet's themes. In the score Shchedrin achieves this remarkable dramatic effect not only thanks to the contraposition of strings and drums, but also because of the multicoloured personalities of the drums themselves.

Arnold Schoenberg wrote his string sextet "Verklärte Nacht" on a poem by Richard Dehmel, who was regarded as one of the most famous German lyricists. In 1943 Schoenberg revised the sextet version and rearranged it for chamber orchestra including double basses, which he already had incorporated into a first revision in 1917.

Shchedrin: Carmen Suite & Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

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