Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces - Ode to Napoleon - Pierrot

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Label
Wergo
Release Date
September 1, 1993
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHONBERG, ARNOLD
    • PERFORMER
      Hericard, Ohlsen, Rosbaud, Swf-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 1993
    • UPC
      4010228640328
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      WER64032
    • LABEL
      Wergo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. (Premonitions)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    2. No. 2. (The Past)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    3. No. 3. (Chord-Colours)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    4. No. 4. (Peripetia)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    5. No. 5. (The Obbligato Recitative)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    6. Ode to Napoleon, Op. 41 (version for narrator, piano and string quartet) (narrated in German)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Baden-Baden, members South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Derrik Olsen

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    7. Part I

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Baden-Baden, members South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeanne Héricard

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    8. Part II

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Baden-Baden, members South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeanne Héricard

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud

    9. Part III

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Baden-Baden, members South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeanne Héricard

      Conductor: Hans Rosbaud


The "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" is Arnold Schoenberg's "in tyrannos". Lord Byron's disparaging poem on the despot deprived of his power on which the work is based goes beyond the bounds of the concrete motivation for writing it, however, and becomes a passionate indictment of every kind of despotism. With its ambiguities and bold insights into the relationship between word and tone, as Pierre Boulez says, "Pierrot lunaire" contains inexhaustible material to ferment future works. Schoenberg characterized his "Five Orchestral Pieces" in a letter to R. Strauss in the words: "Absolutely not symphonic, exactly the opposite, no architecture, no structure. Just a colourful, uninterrupted succession of hues, rhythms and moods."