Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:47 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Pierrot lunaire, premiered in Berlin in 1912, is a series of twenty-one short melodramas for voice and five instruments on German translations of poems by Albert Giraud. Here the composer first introduces “Sprechgesang” (speech-song), a technique that revolutionised declamation. Schoenberg wanted the piece to be ironic, at once tender and grotesque, in the manner of cabaret songs.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the violinist who is also an occasional actress, had long dreamt of playing and reciting this unique work. It was a pain in her arm preventing her from playing the violin that one day propelled her into the role of narrator: ‘All my life I have felt that I was Pierrot. Every time I played this piece on the violin when I was a student, I would say the words in my head’. She has now played and performed Pierrot in many venues around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, several cities in the United States, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden. Now she has assembled a number of her musician friends and decided to record it for posterity. Schoenberg’s Phantasy Op. 47 and Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 complete the programme, along with works by Webern (Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7) and Schoenberg’s arrangement of Johann Strauss Jr.’s Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437.

Tracklist:

01. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – I. Mondestrunken (01:55)
02. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – II. Colombine (01:56)
03. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – III. Der Dandy (01:28)
04. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – IV. Eine blasse Wäscherin (01:36)
05. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – V. Valse de Chopin (01:22)
06. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – VI. Madonna (01:58)
07. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – VII. Der kranke Mond (02:45)
08. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – VIII. Nacht (Passcaglia) (02:09)
09. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – IX. Gebet an Pierrot (01:12)
10. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – X. Raub (01:09)
11. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XI. Rote Messe (01:57)
12. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XII. Galgenlied (00:19)
13. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XIII. Enthauptung (02:15)
14. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XIV. Die Kreuze (02:14)
15. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XV. Heimweh (02:28)
16. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XVI. Gemeinheit! (01:12)
17. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XVII. Parodie (01:20)
18. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Der Mondfleck (00:56)
19. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XIX. Serenade (02:49)
20. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XX. Heimfahrt (Barcarole) (01:44)
21. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – XXI. O alter Duft (01:45)
22. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Emperor’s Waltz, Op. 437 (12:38)
23. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47 (09:28)
24. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – I. Sehr langsam (01:19)
25. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – II. Rasch (01:23)
26. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – III. Sehr langsam (01:18)
27. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – IV. Bewegt (01:04)
28. Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Little Viennese March (03:20)
29. Joonas Ahonen – I. Leicht, zart (01:23)
30. Joonas Ahonen – II. Langsam (00:53)
31. Joonas Ahonen – III. Sehr Langsam (01:00)
32. Joonas Ahonen – IV. Rasch, aber leicht (00:28)
33. Joonas Ahonen – V. Etwas rasch (00:33)
34. Joonas Ahonen – VI. Sehr langsam (01:14)

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