L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Jonathan Nott – Debussy & Schoenberg: Pelleas & Melisande (2021) [FLAC DSF DSD64/2.82MHz + FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Jonathan Nott – Debussy & Schoenberg: Pelleas & Melisande (2021)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 01:29:14 minutes | 3,54 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:29:14 minutes | 1,51 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet | Label: Pentatone

This new OSR recording presents the two most ambitious musical responses to Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1893 epoch-making play Pelléas et Mélisande.

Conductor Jonathan Nott has created a new suite of Debussy’s opera, which is much more extensive, and focuses more on the actual drama and symphonic development than existing suites that rely heavily on Debussy’s interludes.

Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande is often perceived as relatively “amorphous”, its narrative structure obscure, leaving concealed all but the most explicit references to the drama on which Schoenberg based it. In this recording, Jonathan Nott introduces a novel track division and analytical track titles that make the music’s relation to the story much more tangible to the listener. Programming it next to the music of Debussy’s opera allows us to compare both works, and to see how the most important innovators of turn-of-the-century music responded to this haunting, Symbolist story.

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (49:10)
1. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act I: A Forest [1] (05:58)
2. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88] Act I: Golaud & Mélisande (02:05)
3. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act I: A Forest [2] (01:46)
4. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act I: Pelléas – A Room in the Castle (01:36)
5. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act I: Mélisande, Golaud, Pelléas (05:30)
6. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act II: A Well in the Garden – Pelléas & Mélisande (04:03)
7. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act II: Golaud, Mélisande (00:32)
8. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act III: Mélisande, Pelléas – One of the Castle’s Towers (03:22)
9. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act III: Golaud Appears (03:30)
10. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act IV: A Room in the Castle – Golaud & Mélisande (03:30)
11. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88]: Act IV: A Well in the Garden – Pelléas, Mélisande (04:27)
12. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act IV: Golaud Appears – The Death of Pelléas (03:03)
13. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act V: A Room in the Castle (05:54)
14. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act V: Castle Maids Appear (02:13)
15. Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite symphonique) [After Debussy’s L. 88], Act V: The Immutability of Destiny (01:41)

Disc 2 (39:46)
1. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 1: First Movement Sonata Form – Introduction. Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt (02:52)
2. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 1: First Theme Group. Heftig – Sehr warm. in breiter Bewegung (01:37)
3. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 1: Second Theme Group. Lebhaft (03:07)
4. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Scherzo with Episodes. Sehr rasch (04:17)
5. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Ring Falls Into the Well. Golaud Falls from His Horse (03:29)
6. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Golaud Wounded in Bed. Golaud’s Jealousy (04:03)
7. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Pelléas & Mélisande. Love (01:01)
8. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Episode Ia. Sehr langsam (00:40)
9. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Episode Ib (00:48)
10. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 2: Episode II. Sehr langsam. Gedehnt (00:36)
11. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Slow Movement – Introduction. Ein wenig bewegt (01:26)
12. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Love Theme. Langsam (00:45)
13. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Im Zeitmaß (01:28)
14. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Development. Ein wenig bewegter (01:14)
15. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 3: Coda (01:06)
16. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Recapitulatory Finale – Recapitulation of Introduction. Sehr langsam (02:20)
17. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Recapitulation of First Theme. Etwas bewegt (02:52)
18. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Recapitulation of Love Theme (00:57)
19. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: in gehender Bewegung (04:37)
20. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, Pt. 4: Epilogue. Breit (00:31)