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Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande, Verklarte Nacht | Pentatone PTC5187218

Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande, Verklarte Nacht

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Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5187218

Barcode: 8717306262187

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 11th October 2024

Contents

Artists

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal

Conductor

Rafael Payare

Works

Schoenberg, Arnold

Pelleas und Melisande, op.5
Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op.4 (orchestral version)

Artists

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal

Conductor

Rafael Payare

About

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare celebrate Arnold Schoenberg’s 150th birthday with a recording of two of his late-Romantic masterworks: Verklärte 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 Rückert-Lieder and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (2024), Payare and the orchestra further explore this late-Romantic repertoire that fits them like a glove.

Reviews

In Rafael Payare’s performance the connections between Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande and the symphonic poems of Richard Strauss are more obvious than usual: the bright, transparent sound of the Montreal Symphony and Payare’s fondness for brisk no-nonsense tempi make what in some performances can seem quite a dogged, almost didactic work into something illustrative and programmatic.  Andrew Clements
The Guardian 18 October 2024

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