Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Violin Concerto

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Markus Stentz and the Oehms team have done a lot of work picking out leading voices and balancing the riotously profuse counterpoint. The result has a compelling narrative cohesion…at times everything... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: OC445
Label: Oehms
Length: 69 minutes

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Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5

Work length38:07

Album only

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Markus Stenz

Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 36

Work length31:15

$8.00

$10.30

Kolja Blacher
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Markus Stenz

I. Poco allegro

Track length12:18

$3.00

$3.85

II. Andante grazioso

Track length7:37

$2.00

$2.60

III. Finale. Allegro

Track length11:20

$3.00

$3.85

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After the completion of the Mahler cycle with the Gürzenich Orchestra and Markus Stenz, OehmsClassics now presents another recording with these artists. This time it is a CD devoted exclusively to Schönberg, with the impressive Violin Concerto performed by Kolja Blacher and the symphonic poem Pelleas and Melisande.

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December 2015

Markus Stentz and the Oehms team have done a lot of work picking out leading voices and balancing the riotously profuse counterpoint. The result has a compelling narrative cohesion…at times everything seems magnificently, grippingly in focus.

September 2015

Like Hilary Hahn, Kolja Blacher has clearly absorbed lessons from the work's early interpreters…in not allowing the solo part to be tied up in soliloquising knots of contrapuntal introspection…his relationship with the orchestra is strong…and he makes a muscular but never ugly case for the finale in the virtuoso tradition.

26th July 2015

The Op 5 symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is a lusciously expansive evocation of Maeterlinck’s drama...The Op 36 concerto starkly reinvents musical language, yet insists on conventional form. The sometimes explosive tension between the two is what makes the work so strangely compelling.

30th July 2015

[Stenz is] equally at home in the romantic sweep of Pelleas as he is in the much more ambiguous world of the concerto, with its tensions between tradition and innovation, serialism and tonality, while never allowing the former to become too indulgent nor the latter to seem too dry and calculated.

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Violin Concerto

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