Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

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This vast cantata, a direct descendant of Wagnerian music-drama, was for the turn-of-the- century musical scene the ultimate gorgeous sunset. Schoenberg's forces are, to put it mildly, extravagant.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: E4737282
Label: Decca
Series: Double Decca
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

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Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9

Work length20:24

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 1992-01-23
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Work length1:40:56

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Peter Haage (tenor), Hans Hotter (speaker), Hermann Becht (bass), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Susan Dunn (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chor der St. Hedwig's-Kathedrale, Berlin, Stadtischer Musikverein, Dusseldorf
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 1985-05-24
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin

1. Orchestral Prelude

Track length7:10

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2. Waldemar: Nun dämpft die Dämmerung

Track length3:45

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3. Tove: O, wenn des Mondes Strahlen

Track length3:11

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4. Waldemar: Ross! Mein Ross!

Track length2:53

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5. Tove: Sterne jubeln

Track length2:24

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6. Waldemar: So tanzen die Engel

Track length2:15

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7. Tove: Nun sag ich dir zum ersten Mal

Track length3:49

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8. Waldemar: Es ist Mitternachtszeit

Track length5:14

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9. Tove: Du sendest mir einen Liebesblick

Track length5:34

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10. Waldemar: Du wunderliche Tove!

Track length3:43

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10a. Orchestral Interlude

Track length4:36

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11. Voice of the Wood-Dove: Tauben von Gurre

Track length11:26

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12. Waldemar: Herrgott, weisst du, was du tatest

Track length4:19

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13. Waldemar: Erwacht, König Waldemars Mannen wert!

Track length2:03

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14. Bauer: Deckel des Sarges Klappert

Track length3:25

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15. Waldemar's Men: Gegrüsst, O König

Track length4:22

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16. Waldemar: Mit Toves Stimme flüstert der Wald

Track length4:33

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17. Klaus-Narr: Ein seltsamer Vogel

Track length6:34

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18. Waldemar: Du strenger Richter

Track length2:04

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19. Waldemar's Men: Der Hahn erhebt den Kopf

Track length5:18

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20. Orchestral Prelude

Track length2:37

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21. Sprecher: Herr Gänsefuss, Frau Gänsekraut

Track length5:02

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22. Mixed Chorus: Seht die Sonne

Track length4:39

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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Work length30:02

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Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 1987-04
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin

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2010

This vast cantata, a direct descendant of Wagnerian music-drama, was for the turn-of-the- century musical scene the ultimate gorgeous sunset. Schoenberg's forces are, to put it mildly, extravagant. As well as the six soloists and two choruses, the orchestra sports such luxuries as four piccolos, ten horns and a percussion battery that includes iron chains; and so complex are some of the textures that, to achieve a satisfactory balance, a near miracle is required of conductor and recording engineers. Decca has never been mean with miracles where largescale forces are concerned and this set is no exception.
Chailly gives us a superbly theatrical presentation of the score. The casting of the soloists is near ideal. Susan Dunn's Tove has youth, freshness and purity on her side. So exquisitely does she float her lines that you readily sympathise with King Waldemar's rage at her demise. Siegfried Jerusalem has the occasional rough moment, but few previous Waldemars on disc have possessed his heroic ringing tones and range of expression. And Decca makes sure that its trump card, the inimitable Hans Hotter as the speaker in 'The wild hunt of the summer wind', is so tangibly projected that we miss not one vowel or consonant of his increasing animation and excitement at that final approaching sunrise.

March 2010

Brigitte Fassbaender reigns supreme [as Waldtaube]...Susan Dunn is a vivdly drawn Tove...Best of all, there's finally a Waldemar who measures up to his part: Siegfried Jerusalem, who can sing the role as well as the notes.

2011 edition

Sigefried Jerusalem as Waldemar is not only warm and firm of tone, but imaginative too. Susan Dunn makes a sweet, touchingly vulnerable Tove, while Brigitte Fassbaender gives darkly baleful intensity to the message of the Wood-dove. Hans Hotter is a characterful speaker

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