Schoenberg: Choral Music / Pierre Boulez, BBC Singers

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Sony Masterworks
Release Date
August 30, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD
    • PERFORMER
      Pierre, Boulez
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 30, 2012
    • UPC
      074644457124
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SONY44571
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Choral - Secular
    Works ⌄

    1. Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth), Op. 13

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Simon Joly, Pierre Boulez

    2. Kol Nidre, Op. 39

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    3. No. 1. Es gingen zwei Gespielen gut (Two comely maidens)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    4. No. 2. Der Mai tritt ein mit Freuden (Now May has come with gladness)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    5. No. 3. Mein Herz in steten Treuen (To her I shall be faithful)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    6. Wenn der schwer Gedruckte klagt

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    7. O dass der Sinnen doch so viele sind!

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    8. No. 1. Es gingen zwei Gespielen gut

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    9. No. 2. Herzlieblich Lieb, durch Scheiden

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    10. No. 3. Schein uns, du liebe Sonne

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    11. No. 1. Unentrinnbar

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, members London Sinfonietta

      Performer: James Ellis

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    12. No. 2. Du sollst nicht, du musst

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, members London Sinfonietta

      Performer: James Ellis

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    13. No. 3. Mond und Menschen

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, members London Sinfonietta

      Performer: James Ellis

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    14. No. 4. Der Wunsch des Liebhabers

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, members London Sinfonietta

      Performer: James Ellis

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    15. No. 1. Am Scheideweg

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, members London Sinfonietta

      Performer: John Constable

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    16. No. 2. Vielseitigkeit

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, members London Sinfonietta

      Performer: John Constable

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    17. No. 3. Der neue Klassizismus

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, members London Sinfonietta

      Performer: John Constable

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    18. No. 1. Hemmung (Inhibitions)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    19. No. 2. Das Gesetz (The Law)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    20. No. 3. Ausdrucksweise (Expression)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    21. No. 4. Gluck (Happiness)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    22. No. 5. Landsknechte (Mercenaries)

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    23. No. 6. Verbundenheit

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    24. Dreimal Tausend Jahre, Op. 50a

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    25. De Profundis (Psalm 130), Op. 50b

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Singers

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    26. Moderner Psalm, Op. 50c

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez

    27. A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pierre Boulez


In Boulez's hands, this music sounds as it should: immensely expressive, enormously concentrated, totally unyielding, and utterly uncompromising.

As they used to say back in the fin de siècle, for every generation, it's art. How could one argue? Every generation has its own life and its own world and its own history and every generation has the right to its own artistic prophet. But should every generation's art appeal to the next generation, or the generation after that, or the generation after that? In his generation, Schoenberg was anathema to almost everyone not accepted into his elect band of disciples who revered him as the prophet of modern music. After his death, Schoenberg was still anathema to almost everybody except the next generation of disciples, and that generation gave the world performances of the prophet's music that made it sound as austere and forbidding as possible. But, finally, after three generations, the disciples were able to relax a bit and give the world performances of the prophet's music that made it sound as close to appealing as the music has ever gotten. In these recordings of Schoenberg's choral music by Pierre Boulez and the BBC Singers and BBC Chorus, the prophet's music still sounds like the prophet's music: immensely expressive, enormously concentrated, totally unyielding, and utterly uncompromising. But at least the music is accurately directed and accurately performed so for once it is clearly and lucidly presented, which is more than one can say for earlier recordings. And if the prophet's music still sounds forbidding to most listeners, well, there is only so much performers can do and remain faithful to the spirit of the music and of the prophet. For true believers, however, these discs will provide proof positive of the greatness of the man and the music.

-- James Leonard, AllMusic.com