Pierrot lunaire

Album by Arnold Schönberg & Helga Pilarczyk & Pierre Boulez

Pierrot Lunaire is a 1912 song cycle by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. The work combines Sprechstimme with a small chamber ensemble to produce fragmented, expressionist textures and atonal, highly chromatic harmonies, and it marks a key step in Schoenberg's transition away from late-Romantic tonality toward techniques that would shape early 20th-century musical modernism.
First released: 1962

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Pierrot lunaire: Mondestrunken
  2. 2.
    Pierrot lunaire: Colombine
  3. 3.
    Pierrot lunaire: Der Dandy
  4. 4.
    Pierrot lunaire: Eine blasse Wäscherin
  5. 5.
    Pierrot lunaire: Valse de Chopin
  6. 6.
    Pierrot lunaire: Madonna
  7. 7.
    Pierrot lunaire: Der kranke Mond
  8. 8.
    Pierrot lunaire: Die Nacht
  9. 9.
    Pierrot lunaire: Gebet an Pierrot
  10. 10.
    Pierrot lunaire: Raub
  11. 11.
    Pierrot lunaire: Rote Messe
  12. 12.
    Pierrot lunaire: Galgenlied
  13. 13.
    Pierrot lunaire: Enthauptung
  14. 14.
    Pierrot lunaire: Die Kreuze
  15. 15.
    Pierrot lunaire: Heimweh
  16. 16.
    Pierrot lunaire: Gemeinheit
  17. 17.
    Pierrot lunaire: Parodie
  18. 18.
    Pierrot lunaire: Der Mondfleck
  19. 19.
    Pierrot lunaire: Serenade
  20. 20.
    Pierrot lunaire: Heimfahrt
  21. 21.
    Pierrot lunaire: O alter Duft

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