Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklärte Nacht (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:29 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
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.
Tracklist:
1. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Ia. Introduction (A Forest). Ein wenig bewegt, zögernd (04:05)
2. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Ib. Principle Theme. Golaud marries Mélisande and brings her to the castle. Heftig (03:20)
3. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: Ic. Second Theme. Mélisande sees Pelléas – Awakening of love. Lebhaft (04:24)
4. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IIa. Scene by the spring in the park. The ring falls into the water – Golaud is thrown from his horse. Sehr rasch (03:27)
5. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IIb. Scene at the Castle Tower (Mélisande’s Hair) – Scene in the Castle Vaults. Sehr langsam (03:38)
6. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IIIa. At the spring in the park. Ein wenig bewegt (01:21)
7. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IIIb. Goodbye and Love Scene – Golaud interferes and kills Pelleas. Langsam (03:19)
8. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IIIc. Reprise. Ein wenig bewegter (04:24)
9. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IVa. Sehr langsam. (04:47)
10. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IVb. Etwas bewegt. (02:11)
11. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IVc. Mélisande’s death chamber. In gehender Bewegung (02:18)
12. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IVd. Epilogue. Breit (05:53)
13. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: Grave (06:30)
14. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: Molto rallentando (06:09)
15. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: Pesante – Grave (02:10)
16. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: Adagio (06:23)
17. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: Poco adagio (03:44)
18. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Rafael Payare – Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: Adagio. Molto tranquillo (04:17)
