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Pelléas & Mélisande

Jonathan Nott, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR)

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Pelléas & Mélisande is a recording by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) conducted by Jonathan Nott.  The album presents the two most ambitious musical responses to Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1893 epoch-making play Pelléas et Mélisande.

Conductor Jonathan Nott has created a new suite of Debussy’s opera, which is much more extensive, and focuses more on the actual drama and symphonic development than existing suites that rely heavily on Debussy’s interludes.

Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande is often perceived as relatively “amorphous”. Its narrative structure obscure, leaving concealed all but the most explicit references to the drama on which Schoenberg based it. In this recording, Jonathan Nott introduces a novel track division and analytical track titles that make the music’s relation to the story much more tangible to the listener.

Programming it next to the music of Debussy’s opera allows us to compare both works, and to see how the most important innovators of turn-of-the-century music responded to this haunting, Symbolist story.

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR)
Conducted by Jonathan Nott

Tracklist

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1.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act I, A Forest [1]
01:36
2.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act. I, Golaud & Mélisande
05:30
3.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act I, A Forest [2]
04:03
4.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act I, Pelléas - A Room in the Cas
00:32
5.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act I, Mélisande, Golaud, Pelléas
03:22
6.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act II, A Well in the Garden - Pel
03:30
7.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act II, Golaud, Mélisande
03:30
8.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act III, Mélisande, Pelléas - One
04:27
9.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act III, Golaud Appears
03:03
10.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act IV, A Room in the Castle - Gol
05:54
11.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Axt IV, A Well in the Garden - Pel
02:13
12.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act IV, Golaud Appears - The Death
01:41
13.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act V, A Room in the Castle
02:52
14.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act V, Castle Maids Appear
01:37
15.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy's L. 88]: Act V, The Immutability of Destiny
03:07
16.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 1: First Movement Sonata Form - Introduction. Die Achtel ein wenig
04:17
17.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 1: First Theme Group. Heftig - Sehr warm. In breiter Bewegung
03:29
18.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 1: Second Theme Group. Lebhaft
04:03
19.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Scherzo with Episodes. Sehr rasch
01:01
20.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Ring Falls Into the Well. Golaud Falls from His Horse
00:40
21.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Golaud Wounded in Bed. Golaud's Jealousy
00:48
22.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Pelléas & Mélisande. Love
00:36
23.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Episode Ia. Sehr langsam
01:26
24.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2:, Episode Ib
00:45
25.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Episode II. Sehr langsam. Gedehnt
01:28
26.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Slow Movement - Introduction. Ein wenig bewegt
01:14
27.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Love Theme. Langsam
01:06
28.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Im Zeitmaß
02:20
29.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Development. Ein wenig bewegter
02:52
30.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Coda
00:57
31.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Recapitulatory Finale - Recapitulation of Introduction. Sehr la
04:37
32.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Recapitulation of First Theme. Etwas bewegt
00:31
33.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Recapitulation of Love Theme
01:46
34.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: In gehender Bewegung
02:52
35.
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Epilogue. Breit
05:58

Total time: 01:29:43

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Release DateNovember 11, 2021

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