Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Paavo Järvi

• Arnold Schönberg (1874 - 1951): Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5:
• 1 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: I. Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt – zögernd 03:45
• 2 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: II. Heftig 03:15
• 3 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: III. Lebhaft 04:10
• 4 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IV. Sehr rasch 06:53
• 5 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: V. Ein wenig bewegt 01:26
• 6 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: VI. Langsam 03:13
• 7 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: VII. Ein wenig bewegter 04:08
• 8 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: VIII. Sehr langsam 04:27
• 9 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: IX. Etwas bewegt 02:30
• 10 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: X. In gehender Bewegung 02:20
• 11 Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5: XI. Breit 05:41
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80:
• 12 Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: I. Prélude. Quasi adagio 05:47
• 13 Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: II. Fileuse. Andantino quasi Allegretto 02:31
• 14 Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: III. Sicilienne. Allegretto molto moderato 03:47
• 15 Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: IV. La mort de Mélisande. Molto Adagio 04:53
• Total Runtime 58:46

Info for Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande

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, conductor

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