Schoenberg conducts Pierrot Lunaire (3/4)

From Op.21 : Kreuze, Heimweh, and Gemeinheit

#Through the bald pate of Cassander
As he rends the air with screeches
Bores Pierrot in feigning tender
Fashion with a cranium driller.
He then presses with his finger
Rare tobacco grown in Turkey
In the bald pate of Cassander,
As he rends the air with screeches.
Then screwing a cherry pipe stem
Right in through the polished surface,
Sits at ease and smokes and puffs the
Rare tobacco grown in Turkey
From the bald pate of Cassander.#

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 20th century classics
• free atonality
• polyphony
• Second Viennese School
• expressionism
• Arnold Schönberg
• op.21
• Pierrot Lunaire
• Giraud
• Hartleben
• Brettl lieder
• sprechgesang
• Albertine Zehme
• Eduard Steuermann
• Hermann Scherchen

[rolandrog]

She looks like a good witch from the Eastbrook. She and the song are a perfect personification of Hashish (with a little opium for a dreamy effect). I'm tripping off my hashish. Don't be so rachish and speak so brashish; wait for your judgement only until after you consume your hashish.

[drieaz]

where to find this recording on compact disc? thank-you

[Awwa1]

Extraordinary!

\A/

[Jeniferefinej]

what is she saying?