Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande

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Nott’s orchestral suite arranged from Debussy’s opera is both substantial and imaginatively devised... it is played here with a consistent loveliness that absorbs and appeals in its own right. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: PTC5186782
Label: Pentatone
Length: 88 minutes

Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2021
Presto Recording of the Week

26th November 2021
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Symphonic Music

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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande - Suite

Work length46:57

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arr. Jonathan Nott
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott

Act I, A Forest [1]

Track length1:36

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Act. I, Golaud & Mélisande

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Act I, A Forest [2]

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Act I, Pelléas - A Room in the Castle

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Act I, Mélisande, Golaud, Pelléas

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Act II, A Well in the Garden - Pelléas & Mélisande

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Act II, Golaud, Mélisande

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Act III, Mélisande, Pelléas - One of the Castle's Towers

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Act III, Golaud Appears

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Act IV, A Room in the Castle - Golaud & Mélisande

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Axt IV, A Well in the Garden - Pelléas, Mélisande

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Act IV, Golaud Appears - The Death of Pelléas

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Act V, A Room in the Castle

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Act V, Castle Maids Appear

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Act V, The Immutability of Destiny

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Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5

Work length41:59

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jonathan Nott

First Movement Sonata Form - Introduction. Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt

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First Theme Group. Heftig - Sehr warm. In breiter Bewegung

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Second Theme Group. Lebhaft

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Scherzo with Episodes. Sehr rasch

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Ring Falls Into the Well. Golaud Falls from His Horse

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Golaud Wounded in Bed. Golaud's Jealousy

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Pelléas & Mélisande. Love

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Episode Ia. Sehr langsam

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Episode Ib

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Episode II. Sehr langsam. Gedehnt

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Slow Movement - Introduction. Ein wenig bewegt

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Love Theme. Langsam

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Im Zeitmaß

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Development. Ein wenig bewegter

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Coda

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Recapitulatory Finale - Recapitulation of Introduction. Sehr langsam

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Recapitulation of First Theme. Etwas bewegt

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Recapitulation of Love Theme

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In gehender Bewegung

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Epilogue. Breit

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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.

Reviews

January 2022

Nott’s orchestral suite arranged from Debussy’s opera is both substantial and imaginatively devised... it is played here with a consistent loveliness that absorbs and appeals in its own right.

January 2022

It’s wonderful to hear the orchestra in such good shape under Nott, the woodwinds – often something of an acquired taste in Ansermet’s day – in particularly fine fettle.

26th November 2021

This particular opera lends itself uncommonly well to such treatment: as it’s the orchestra itself which is often the driving-force behind the narrative, there are many passages where Nott’s able to dispense with the vocal lines altogether without any loss in atmosphere or dramatic impetus...And the coupling of the two works itself is inspired:: the pairing offers a fascinating opportunity to compare the two composers’ approaches like-for-like.

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande

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