FULL PIERROT LUNAIRE Stockholm 2014 Anne Pajunen
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Pierrot lunaire aka Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds "Pierrot lunaire"
- Composer: Schoenberg Arnold
- Libretto: Albert Giraud
- Venue & Opera Company: Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden
- Recorded: November 2014
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Anne Pajunen
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Konserthuset Play
- Date Published: 2014
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: Konserthuset Play FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Konserthuset Play:
No composer stirs emotions like Arnold Schönberg. A large part of all twentieth century artistic musical productions have been related to Schönberg in one way or another.
In Pierrot lunaire from 1912, one of the most discussed works of the last century, he frees the music from traditional harmonic patterns, yet still without the use of twelve-note composition. Albert Giraud’s poetry compilation Pierrot lunaire, with which Schönberg was deeply fascinated, consists of three groups of seven poems. In the first, Pierrot sings about love, sex and religion; in the second, about violence, crime and blasphemy, and in the third, about his return to Bergamo, where he is plagued by his past.
We hear a moonstruck Pierrot in the Moonlight, musically shaped with complete geniality by Schönberg. This performance also takes on an additional evocative dimension through Anne Pajunen’s visual interpretations.