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| |  | Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
”The great international success that Salome Kammer has enjoyed with Pierrot lunaire is certainly a factor of her double talent as an actress and musician. ... The same technical perfection and special feeling distinguish this recording by the Ensemble Avantgarde.” (Compact) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21
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| |  | Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire & Suite
Václav Kunt (flute), Milan Polak (clarinet/bass clarinet) Prazak Quartet, Pavel Hula (direction) 'Pierrot lunaire', the scandalous ‘Red Mass’ with its bloody host, stems from a musical art in which Viennese cabaret, Neapolitan and oriental antecedents and German Jewish humour blend with stable, clearly audible Sprechgesang in a musical framework that serves as stage director and means of dramatic expression. It simultaneously proposes a literal text of immediate impact and its humorous and even ironic antithesis. Same outline with the Suite Op.29, which is serial but with jazzy counterpoint! “what characterizes the playing of the Prazak Quartet and its colleagues is an extreme delicacy and lightness...Caiello is in perfect equilibrium with the ensemble and she never exaggerates the element of the grotesque that is certainly present: her voice is clear and pure but at the same time rich in timbre.” International Record Review, September 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire
“Authoritative accounts of some of Schoenberg's greatest works, with Silja brilliant in Pierrot Lunaire, and the whole programme conducted with the deepest understanding by Craft, also author of the magnificent notes.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2007 ***** “There's no denying the sheer excitement, the authentically Schoenbergian iconoclasm of what Craft and his team of 15 virtuosos achieve.” Gramophone Magazine “one of the most enticing Schoenberg collections around” MusicWeb International | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
“if anyone can convince the listener that it can provide a unique atmosphere it is Jane Manning. She steers a masterful course between the twin perils, on the one hand actually singing, on the other simply speaking. Her sing-speech brings out the element of irony and darkly pointed wit that is essential. Rattle again proves a natural Schoenbergian” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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“Pierre Boulez's third recording of Pierrot lunaire is an intense yet intimate reading, in a recording that's positively anti-resonant, and which veers, like the music itself, between harshness and reticence.
Boulez's second recording (for Sony Classical), with Yvonne Minton, has long been notorious as the 'sung' Pierrot, flouting the composer's specific instructions about recitation.
This time Christine Schäfer is more speech- orientated, the few fully sung notes perfectly pitched, and although slidings-away from sustained sounds are on the whole avoided, the effect is superbly dramatic in the work's more expressionistic movements. The work's strange world, half-way between cabaret and concert hall, is admirably caught.
In the Ode to Napoleon David Pittman-Jennings has a heavy voice, but he skilfully inflects the sketchily notated dynamics of the vocal part, and the instrumental backing is forceful and well nuanced. The sound may be clinically dry, but this is scarcely a serious drawback when the performance has such expressive immediacy.The disc is completed by the brief, exotic Maeterlinck setting from 1911, whose hugely demanding vocal line deters all but the hardiest. Christine Schäfer copes, while the accompaniment for celesta, harmonium and harp weaves its usual spell. A thoroughly memorable disc.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Christine SchäferFilms by Oliver Herrmann
In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital and reality blur. The chosen setting – a night club in the centre of Berlin – creates the intimate, dark salon atmosphere in which the songs might also have been performed at the time they were written. Returning to origins in this way, the film departs from the concert atmosphere in which song-recitals are normally performed nowadays. In the film One Night. One Life (1999), based on the cycle Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schönberg’s opus 21, director Oliver Herrmann has created a surreal, at times grotesque dream world set in a modern city, through which Pierrot (Christine Schäfer) moves like a spirit. In each new number she passes through different scenes and levels of the world around us: such as an abattoir, a peep-show, a station or a supermarket. Recording Date: 2000
Place of recording: Berlin, New York
Running Time: 126 (including interview 45 min) min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP
Subtitle Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP
“Schäfer's virtuosity as a singing actress is exploited to the full in this highly imaginative double-bill. In the Schumann, work and artists are placed in a new and controversial context, with the production of the film intermingled with the performance of the cycle. In an intimate, sparsely lit nightclub in Berlin-Mitte, recreating the salon atmosphere of a performance in the composer's time, the cycle is sung by the soprano in a tight-fitting black outfit while moving around the room in sympathy with evocations of each song's mood. The idea is to make the emotions of the work part of everyday life.
Schäfer's reading of the songs is at once simple and intense, devoid entirely of sentimentality.
She's supported in the performance and rehearsal by the equally fascinating personality of the pianist Natascha Osterkorn.
As far as one can tell, the singer isn't dubbed here. But in the 'staging' of Pierrot lunaire, she's undoubtedly miming to her own Sprechgesang.
With clown-like make-up, Schäfer wanders Kafka-like, through a kaleidoscopic range of situations and venues – including an abattoir, railway station and a medical lecture theatre – vaguely appropriate to the texts. In this, one of the soprano's best-known roles, she excels in declaiming the text with meaning, assisted by that past master of the genre, Pierre Boulez.
As a bonus, there's a 45-minute interview with the singer. This whole issue extends the boundaries of interpreting vocal works on DVD. A riveting experience.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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