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Pelléas et Melisande

Arnold Schönberg

Reviews (14)

The guardian

d. 30. July 2015

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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)

d. 30. July 2015

""[Stenz is] equally at home in the romantic sweep of Pelleas as he is in the much more ambiguous world of the concerto, with its tensions between tradition and innovation, serialism and tonality, while never allowing the former to become too indulgent nor the latter to seem too dry and calculated".

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MusicWeb international

2024 August

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John France

2024 August

"Over the years, the play inspired several composers ... The two works here are hugely different. Gabriel Fauré first wrote his incidental music for a London performance of the play in 1898. Arnold Schoenberg penned a tone poem in a full-blown late-Romantic style ... The playing by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi is faultless, the recording is ideal ... The disc presents two wonderfully contrasting explorations of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande. Both are a pleasure to listen to".

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Naxos.com

2008

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"The most innovative features of Erwartung, a "monodrama for soprano and large orchestra", are the continual variation of orchestral textures, and the constantly changing tempi. Not only are the instrumental combinations new, but the instruments themselves are required to produce new sounds".

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Jyllands-posten

d. 2. Mar. 2012

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Jens Povlsen

d. 2. Mar. 2012

"Boulez står igen klar med sit røntgensyn på denne fine liveindspilning ... Med en knivskarp Boulez på podiet arbejder de unge musikere i Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester sig overbevisende fra urbilledet på den passionerede kærlighed og videre gennem følelsesniveauerne op til Schönbergs rastløse spændinger. Der er ingen grund til at betænke sig".

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Diapason

2015 septembre

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Patrick Szersnovicz

2015 septembre

BBC music magazine

2024 October

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Erik Levi

2024 October

"Orchestral choice: What makes this performance especially persuasive is Järvi's ability to control the constantly fluctuating tempo changes in Schoenberg's score without losing sight of the music's structural cohesion ... In stark contrast, Fauré's incidental music to Maeterlinck's Pelléas exudes restraint and refinement. Yet Järvi is just as at home, encouraging his players to produce the most delicate gossamer-like textures ... with a profound sense of sadness".

Klassisk

2024, nr. 75

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Steen Chr. Steensen

2024, nr. 75

"Handlingen i den belgiske forfatter Maurice Maeterlincks drama 'Pelléas et Mélisande' er mystisk ... Stykkets kvaliteter ligger i alle de lag af betydninger, som væver sig ind i hinanden og ned i underbevidstheden - i en drømmeverden ... og inspirerede snart til musik, der i sin form netop når det ubevidste ... Paavo Järvi har valgt at indspille Schönbergs og Faurés bidrag, og større modsætninger kan næsten ikke tænkes ud fra samme kilde, hvilket måske er en af pointerne ved udgivelsen. I den rene og klare ende af spektret står Faurés tre små mellemaktsstykker ... og det er Järvis fortjeneste, at lydbilledet på én gang står krystalklart og sitrer af liv ... Schönbergs ... er på en gang et forunderligt og foruroligende værk ... Paavo Järvi formår at afdække det allermeste fra stor, tæt klang til gennemsigtig tysthed, fra et enormt drive til øjeblikke, hvor alt står stille ... Man får det hele med".

Kristeligt dagblad

d. 20. Nov. 2000

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d. 20. Nov. 2000

BBC music magazine

2015 Christmas

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Stephen Johnson (f. 1955)

2015 Christmas

"Markus Stentz and the Oehms team have done a lot of work picking out leading voices and balancing the riotously profuse counterpoint. The result has a compelling narrative cohesion ... At times everything seems magnificently, grippingly in focus".

Vurdering (Pelleas): 4/5.

Vurdering (Violin Concerto): 3/5.

The gramophone

2015 September

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Peter Quantrill

2015 September

"Like Hilary Hahn, Kolja Blacher has clearly absorbed lessons from the work's early interpreters ... In not allowing the solo part to be tied up in soliloquising knots of contrapuntal introspection ... His relationship with the orchestra is strong ... and he makes a muscular but never ugly case for the finale in the virtuoso tradition".

BBC music magazine

2024 September

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Erik Levi

2024 September

"Building a library - Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande - the best recording: A fine example of perfect pacing ... Järvi know exactly when to pile on the intensity and where to allow some repose".

The gramophone

2024 August

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Edward Seckerson

2024 August

"Editor's choice: Smart coupling. Two more contrasting takes on Maeterlinck's symbolist drama would be hard to imagine: the Schoenberg heated and densely woven, the Fauré cool and gently poetic ... All credit to Järvi's Frankfurt orchestra for their total immersion into two such stylistically different sound worlds - a reminder, if such were needed, of music's ability to move us in mysterious ways with the same story from different storytellers".

The gramophone

2012 May

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Arnold Whittall

2012 May

"Boulez brings out the best aspects of its formal flexibility and textural richness. In the final stages he even allows himself to broaden the tempo at a place not asked for by the composer without sounding contrived".