Pierre Boulez, renowned for championing the most daring music of the 20th century, leads this 2003 Tokyo concert, played in the presence of Japan’s Emperor and Empress. Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande could have received no treatment more royal than Boulez gives it at Suntory Hall with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
The Guardian observed, “For a quarter of a century now Boulez’s performances of all the modernists have set benchmarks . . . he remains unrivalled in the works of the Second Viennese School, and in Schoenberg in particular”
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Prelude to Act 1
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande op.5
Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt - zögernd
Heftig
Ciff. 9: Lebhaft
Ciff. 16: Sehr rasch
Ciff. 33: Ein wenig bewegt
Ciff. 36: Langsam
Ciff. 43: Ein wenig bewegter
Ciff. 50: Sehr langsam
Ciff. 55: Etwas bewegt
Ciff. 59: In gehender Bewegung
Ciff. 62: Breit
May 2012
“No composer-conductor is more sensitive than Pierre Boulez to the divergent responses to Wagner's Tristan that can be traced in Debussy's opera and Schoenberg's symphonic poem...Boulez brings out the best aspects of its formal flexibility and textural richness...The rapport between seasoned maestro and youthful players has never been more satisfying.”
22nd March 2012
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“Boulez wonderfully captures the sense of the young Schoenberg's overflowing creativity and the way in which the wealth of his musical ideas can hardly be contained within the orchestral frame, and the playing of the GMJO is suitably exuberant. It makes for a thrilling experience”
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Prelude to Act 1
