Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder Berliner Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle

• 1 Orchestervorspiel 06:57
• 2 Nun dämpft die Dämm'rung (Waldemar) 04:20
• 3 O, wenn des Mondes Strahlen (Tove) 03:13
• 4 Ross! Mein Ross! (Waldemar) 03:02
• 5 Sterne jubeln (Tove) 02:39
• 6 So tanzen die Engel vor Gottes Thron nicht (Waldemar) 02:22
• 7 Nun sag ich dir zum ersten mal (Tove) 03:37
• 8 Es ist Mitternachtszeit (Waldemar) 06:08
• 9 Du sendest mir einen Liebesblick (Tove) 04:55
• 10 Du wunderliche Tove! (Waldemar) 04:21
• 11 Orchestervorspiel 05:22
• 12 Tauben von Gurre (Waldtaube) 12:49
• 13 Herrgott, weisst du, was du tatest (Waldemar) 04:46
• 14 Erwacht, König Waldemars Mannen wert! (Waldemar) 02:09
• 15 Deckel des Sarges klappert (Bauer & Choir) 03:55
• 16 Gegrüsst, o König (Walderma's Men) 05:49
• 17 Mit Toves stimme flüstert der Wald (Waldemar) 03:24
• 18 Ein seltsamer Vogel ist so'n Aal (Klaus-Narr) 06:32
• 19 Du strenger Richter droben (Waldemar) 02:51
• 20 Der Hahn erhebt den Kopf zur Kraht (Waldermar's Men) 06:30
• 21 Orchestervorspiel 02:45
• 22 Herr Gänsefuss, Frau Gänsekraut (Sprecher) 06:12
• 23 Seht die Sonne (Choir) 05:34
• Total Runtime 01:50:12

Info for Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder

„Apparently Rattle told the Berlin Philharmonic to play Gurrelieder ‘as though it were Daphnis et Chloé’, which sounds crazy until you listen to the result: indeed, the sonorities do rather often sound subtly and delicately French. It also seems obvious from this performance that he means it when he says that Gurrelieder is ‘the world’s largest string quartet’. It’s only rarely that the full resources of Schoenberg’s gargantuan orchestra are called for (all the more satisfyingly vast when they are). This has an effect on the soloists: none is required to force. Karita Mattila gains from this intimate approach, floating over exquisite orchestral textures in her first song and touching the second very lightly, though in the fourth she can manage both a splendid opening out and an ethereal close. Anne Sofie von Otter has a brighter voice than many exponents of the Wood Dove, better at quieter expressiveness than the wild, gutturally expressed grief of Brigitte Fassbaender, still unrivalled in this role in Riccardo Chailly’s recording. Langridge is vividly characterful as Klaus-Narr, Thomas Quasthoff a fine Peasant and a vehement Speaker. The choral singing is first-class, the orchestral playing superfine and the recording – a mixture of live and studio performances – both detailed and spacious. There are several fine accounts of Gurrelieder in the current catalogue, of which Chailly’s has for a long while been a favourite; his soloists are at least as fine as Rattle’s, but Rattle’s control of rubato, his readiness to adopt more relaxed tempi and to allow silences to register are all tangible advantages. He now replaces Chailly at the head of the list.“ (Michael Oliver, Gramophone)

Karita Mattila, soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo
Philip Langridge, tenor
Thomas Moser, tenor
Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
Rundfunkchor Berlin
MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Ernst Sennf Choir
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle, conductor

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