Gurre-Lieder
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The Gurre-Lieder form a massive oratorio for 5 soloists, reciter, chorus and orchestra, composed by Arnold Schoenberg, on poem texts by Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen (translated from Danish to German by Robert Franz Arnold).
Written in lush, late romantic style, and heavily influenced by Mahler, the composition was finished in short score in 1901 and orchestrated in 1911. Franz Schreker premiered the oratorio in Vienna on February 23, 1913. Leopold Stokowski gave the work its first recording in 1932.
Movements
Part One
- Orchestral Prelude
- Nun daempft die Daemm'rung
- O, wenn des mondes Strahlen
- Ross! Mein Ross!
- Sterne jubeln
- So tanzen die Engel vor Gottes Thron nicht
- Nun sag ich dir zum ersten Mal
- Es ist Mitternachtszeit
- Du sendest mir einen Liebesblick
- Du wunderliche Tove!
- Tauben von Gurre!
Part Two
Herrgott, weisst du, was du tatestPart Three
- Erwacht, Konig Waldemars Mannen wert!
- Deckel des Sarges klappert
- Gegrusst, o Konig
- Mit Toves Stimme flustert der Wald
- Ein seltsamer Vogel ist so'n Aal
- Du strenger Richter droben
- Der Hahn erhebt den Kopf zur Kraht
Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd (The Wild Hunt of the Summer Wind)
- Prelude
- Herr Gaensefuss, Frau Gaensekraut
- Seht die Sonne!
Discography
- Zubin Mehta, New York Philharmonic, Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder, Gary Lakes, Eva Marton. Sony Classical 48077 (1992).
- Pierre Boulez, Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder, 4 Songs Op.22, Jess Thomas, Yvonne Minton. Sony Classical 48459 (1993).
- Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker, Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Moser, Philip Langridge, Thomas Quasthoff. EMI 5 5730302 (2002)
External links
- [Brief account of Stokowski's recording of the Gurrelieder]
- [Full German translation text by Robert Franz Arnold]
- [Original liner notes with full German and English translation from Vox VBX204 recording]
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