Schoenberg - Moses und Aron / Pittman-Jennings ? Merritt ? Boulez
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Performer: Arnold SchoenbergPerformer: Pierre Boulez
Performer: David Pittman-Jennings
Performer: Chris Merritt
Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-10-15
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Einleitung. Sehr langsam
- "Einziger, exiger, allgegenw?rtiger"
- "Du Sohn meiner V?ter"
- "Ich hab' ihn gesehn"
- "Bringt ihr Erh?rung"
- "Der Einzige, Ewige, Allm?chtige"
- "Schlie?et die Augen"
- "Allm?chtiger, meine Kraft ist zu Ende"
- "Ein Wunder erf?lt uns mit Schrecken"
- "Dein Stab zwingt uns"
- "Alles f?r die Freiheit"
- "Er hat uns auserw?hlt"
- "Wo ist Moses?"
- "Vierzig Tage liegen wir nun schon hier!"
- "Wo ist Moses?"
- "Dieses Bild bezeugt"
- Tanz der Schl?chter (Dance of the Butchers)
- O G?tterbild, du strahlst"
- "Frei unter eigenen Herren"
- Orgie der Trunkenheit und des Tanzes (Orgy of drunkenness and dancing)_
- "Selig ist das Volk" - Orgie der Vernichtung und des Selbstmordes (Orgy of destruction and suicide)
- "Du goldener Gott"
- Erotische Orgie (Erotic Orgy)
- "Moses steigt vom Berg herab"
- "Aron, was hast du getan?"
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Free Music Review: Superb 20th Century Opera
Hit: 5 Stars
'Moses und Aron', the opera by Arnold Schoenberg is, to my inexperienced ears, the most distinctively 20th Century Opera I have heard (with the understanding that I have certainly not heard every one, especially not Berg's famous 'Lulu'). Not only is it relatively free of 19th century Wagnerian influences, it has some distinct family resemblences to 20th century popular German musical drama, especially that of Kurt Weill. One very noteworthy fact is that Schoenberg wrote both the music and the libretto, and the result seems, to my ear, to be one of the few German operatic pieces which did not sound as if the artists were trying to imitate Italian opera buffo (Even Mozart did that!).
The directions for singing the libretto is so modern it almost sounds like the sound track to a Robert Altman flick, where several voices are speaking at the same time. I certainly recommend this work over roughly contemporary operatic works by Stravinsky such as 'The Rake's Progress' and 'Oedipus Rex' from his 'neo-classical' period.
Schoenberg - Moses und Aron / Pittman-Jennings ? Merritt ? Boulez Poster
In every respect, this Netherlands Opera production of Schoenberg's problematic yet most personal stage work outclasses Pierre Boulez's 1974 BBC recording on Sony. The conductor elicits staggeringly precise yet supple and flexible playing from the Concertgebouw, quite different from the stentorian sheen of Sir Georg Solti/Chicago, even though the all-important chorus is heard to better advantage in the latter. As Moses, David Pittman-Jennings's eloquent Sprechtstimme emphasizes the intensity of his character's inner vision rather than his outward frustration. Chris Merritt's Aron, though, is marred by a wobbly high tessitura. While the perfect Moses und Aron still eludes our grasp, DG's superb engineering allows more of the uncompromising score to be heard than ever before. --Jed DistlerClassical Music CDs
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