"pelleas Und Melisande

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal & Rafael Payare - Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklarte Nacht (2024)

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal & Rafael Payare - Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklarte Nacht (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 1:12:20 | 1.2 Gbb
Genre: Classical

The Orchestre symphonique de Montreal and its Music Director Rafael Payare celebrate Arnold Schoenberg's 150th birthday with a recording of two of his late-Romantic masterworks: Verklarte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande. Both pieces are based on stories evolving around love, jealousy, acceptance and forgiveness, and showcase Schoenberg's expressive harmonic language and scintillating, multifarious orchestration. The album booklet features unique photography and paintings by Arnold Schoenberg, sketching a vivid picture of this extraordinarily versatile artist. After their acclaimed PENTATONE recordings of Mahler's Fifth Symphony (2023), as well as his Ruckert-Lieder and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben (2024), Payare and the orchestra further explore this late-Romantic repertoire that fits them like a glove.
Orchestre symphonique de Montreal & Rafael Payare - Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklarte Nacht (2024)

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal & Rafael Payare - Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklarte Nacht (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:12:20 | 304 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Orchestre symphonique de Montreal and its Music Director Rafael Payare celebrate Arnold Schoenberg's 150th birthday with a recording of two of his late-Romantic masterworks: Verklarte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande. Both pieces are based on stories evolving around love, jealousy, acceptance and forgiveness, and showcase Schoenberg's expressive harmonic language and scintillating, multifarious orchestration. The album booklet features unique photography and paintings by Arnold Schoenberg, sketching a vivid picture of this extraordinarily versatile artist. After their acclaimed PENTATONE recordings of Mahler's Fifth Symphony (2023), as well as his Ruckert-Lieder and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben (2024), Payare and the orchestra further explore this late-Romantic repertoire that fits them like a glove.
Sara Jakubiak, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 & Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (2020)

Sara Jakubiak, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17 & Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 67:23 | 239 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Chandos

Written only six years apart, these two works share a common narrative of frustrated love, and the concept of the forest as a metaphor for the subconscious mind. Musically they are wildly different, however; Pelleas, which Schoenberg wrote in his late twenties, is the epitome of his late romantic style, indebted to Richard Strauss. Erwartung (his first work for the stage) was written after his conversion to atonality. Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelleas et Melisande fired the imaginations of several of the greatest composers of the time. Debussy began writing his opera almost immediately after its publication in 1892, and within a decade or so Faure and Sibelius had created elaborate incidental scores for different stage productions of the play.
Sir John Barbirolli - Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (1968/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Sir John Barbirolli - Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (1968/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 42:00 minutes | 1,55 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Born in London of Italian-French parents, Sir John Barbirolli (1899–1970) trained as a cellist and played in theatre and café orchestras before joining the Queen’s Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood in 1916.
Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande; Berg: Lyrischen Suite (1985)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande; Berg: 3 Stücke aus der "Lyrischen Suite" (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 271 Mb | Total time: 60:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 423 132-2 | Recorded: 1973, 1974

This is a superb account of Pelleas und Melisande. Karajan’s conducting is masterly; he conveys the sweep of the work yet at the same time he illuminates and clarifies an abundance of detail. The playing of the Berlin Philharmonic is simply peerless. It’s hard to imagine a better revelation of this fascinating score.
Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande (1998)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 338 Mb | Total time: 73:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 457 721-2 | Recorded: 1973, 1974

This is a very distinguished coupling, superbly played by the BPO – a truly 'legendary' reissue, quite unsurpassed on record. Karajan never approached contemporary music with the innate radicalism and inside knowledge of a composer-conductor like Boulez; yet he can't be accused of distorting reality by casting a pall of late-Romantic opulence and languor over these works. He's understandably most at home in the expansive and often openly tragic atmosphere of Schoenberg's early tone-poems Verklärte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande. The richly blended playing of the BPO provides the ideal medium for Karajan's seamless projection of structure and expression.
Herbert von Karajan - Schoenberg- Verklärte Nacht, Pelléas und Mélisande (1974/2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Herbert von Karajan - Schoenberg- Verklärte Nacht, Pelléas und Mélisande (1974/2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 73:25 minutes | 1,38 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Arnold Schoenberg is best known as an atonal modernist, but before he made the 12-tone Faustian bargain, he was a Viennese late romantic.
Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Paavo Järvi - Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (2024)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Paavo Järvi - Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 265 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:53
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics

No fewer than four major composers — Fauré, Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius — were inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas et Mélisande (1892). Given that we celebrate anniversaries of Fauré and Schoenberg in 2024, Paavo Järvi offers his reading of their settings of Pelléas et Mélisande with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, whose Music Director he was for almost ten years. Debussy was so involved with his own operatic setting of Pelléas et Mélisande that the famous English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell turned to Gabriel Fauré to write incidental music for the play; this music then became an orchestral suite in four movements that is considered to be Fauré’s symphonic masterpiece. Schoenberg followed advice given by his much-admired role model Richard Strauss in 1902 and composed his own symphonic poem based on Pelléas et Mélisande. Its complex combinations of musical motifs and the rich fabric of the large-scale orchestra not only captivate us but also reveal his own vision of this archaic and yet universal story.
Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Paavo Järvi - Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Paavo Järvi - Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 58:53 minutes | 579 MB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

No fewer than four major composers — Fauré, Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius — were inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas et Mélisande (1892). Given that we celebrate anniversaries of Fauré and Schoenberg in 2024, Paavo Järvi offers his reading of their settings of Pelléas et Mélisande with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, whose Music Director he was for almost ten years. Debussy was so involved with his own operatic setting of Pelléas et Mélisande that the famous English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell turned to Gabriel Fauré to write incidental music for the play; this music then became an orchestral suite in four movements that is considered to be Fauré’s symphonic masterpiece.
Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Paavo Järvi - Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Paavo Järvi - Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 58:53 minutes | 579 MB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

No fewer than four major composers — Fauré, Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius — were inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas et Mélisande (1892). Given that we celebrate anniversaries of Fauré and Schoenberg in 2024, Paavo Järvi offers his reading of their settings of Pelléas et Mélisande with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, whose Music Director he was for almost ten years. Debussy was so involved with his own operatic setting of Pelléas et Mélisande that the famous English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell turned to Gabriel Fauré to write incidental music for the play; this music then became an orchestral suite in four movements that is considered to be Fauré’s symphonic masterpiece.