Schoenberg & Faure: Pelleas et Melisande

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Release Date
July 19, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Gabriel Faure, Arnold Schonberg
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Frankfurt Radio Symphony
    • PERFORMER
      Frankfurt Radio Symphony
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 19, 2024
    • UPC
      3701624510582
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1058
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt - zögernd -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    2. Heftig -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    3. Lebhaft - Etwas zurückhaltend - Wieder lebhaft - Etwas zurückhaltend - angsamer - Wieder lebhafter - Langsamer - Ein wenig bewegter - Steigernd -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    4. Sehr rasch - Wieder im Zeitmaß - Langsam - Heftig - Wieder langsam - Heftig -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    5. Ein wenig bewegt - Zogernd -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    6. Langsam -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    7. Ein wenig bewegter -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    8. Sehr langsam -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    9. Etwas bewegt -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    10. In gehender Bewegung -

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    11. Breit - Langsam - Nach und nach wieder ins Tempo

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    12. I. Prélude

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    13. II. Fileuse

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    14. III. Sicilienne

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi

    15. IV. Mort de Mélisande

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Paavo Järvi


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