Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, w/ score - 1ste Teil

Schoenberg's early masterpiece "Pierrot Lunaire," with the score; this is the first set of seven songs. Christine Schäfer performs with Pierre Boulez and the EIC.

Apologies for the delay in this part relative to the other two; youtube is being a bit wonky, as usual.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• arnold
• schoenberg
• pierrot
• lunaire
• chamber
• music
• clarinet
• flute
• violin
• viola
• cello
• piano
• soprano
• sprechgesang
• vocal
• expressionist
• expressionism
• atonal
• modern
• classical
• second
• viennese
• school
• alban
• berg
• anton
• webern
• cabaret

[p0lyph0nyXX]

@Seikilou, @JSBach90, @I4AM4NAME

This is not twelve-tone/dodecaphonic music! Please do a little research before using that claim to justify your dislike of the piece.

[ProducShuns]

this is weird.. almost too much... it's so different from what you'd expect. What is this? It's like reading a James Joyce novel for the first time

[AlexTheGreat2015]

Just starting to expose myself to atonal music and I love it. Tonal music has gotten so boring and predictable for me. Even though the name obviously implies it, I'll say it anyway: atonality is a complete rebellion towards tonal music and it's just what I need right now. It's nice to hear something that challenges my ears and intellect.

[castlevaniadude98]

you gotta love people who pretend they know music theory, and then bash music that isn't modern.

[jackredelfs]

No matter how sophisticated the music may be conceptually, none of that is really audible in the end product. These atonal scores are like birdsongs. Viscerally interesting to listen to, but they're purely instinctual works. I enjoy listening Schoenberg's fully atonal works but I can never respect their craftsmanship as anything but lazy. Gurrelieder and the Chamber Symphonies are his true masterworkes.

[jackredelfs]

I enjoy listening to Schoenberg and other fully atonal composers but only on an emotional level. There's something about the novelty of the music, the fact that you can hear a piece hundreds of times and never fully memorize the fluctuations of the music. On an intellectual level, I'm no so sure what Webern, Schoenberg or Berg offer in the way of uniqueness. In other words: each piece may offer plenty of originality, but considered as a whole, all of these "revolutionary" composers blur.

[MjoEm32]

@annenasje1 Given it a lot of time have you? Listened to the whole piece?

thought not.

[FrCroVPC]

Wierdly I like the Modernist music of the 40's that in Nazi Germany that wasn't approved.. Ex: This genre, Jazz, and the clashing of somehow similar notes which's genre name I forgot..

[googleby]

Thumbs if you're listening to this while you're high.

[TempodiPiano]

Really fascinating to follow with the score. Thank you for posting this. I had a Pierrot epoch, but now I find the music a bit stultifying. I hope I am not an awful iconoclast -:) The comments by the neophytes are funny, poor neophytes, they don't know what they say. It's not for people who think music is what is on television, lol.

[IsoMorphix]

It's music, kids. Every action is dictated on the page. The vocal technique is meant to be uncomfortable.

[FabioSirnaMusic]

I knw that's hard to listen and even hardest to enjoy, but atonality has to be contestualised and is not casual music..