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Arnold Schönberg
Pierrot Lunaire

Composed By – Arnold Schönberg
Lyrics By [Short Poems] – Albert Giraud
Translated By [In German] – Erich Hartleben

Cello – Stefan Auber
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Kalman Bloch
Violin, Viola – Rudolf Kolisch
Flute, Piccolo Flute – Leonard Posella
Piano – Eduard Steuermann
Voice [Recitation] – Erika Stiedry-Wagner

Conducted by - Arnold Schönberg

Visually graded: record is VG+, sleeve is VG.

This is the first commercially released version of this work on LP. Pierrot Lunaire is among Schönberg's most celebrated and frequently performed works. Its instrumentation – flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano with standard doublings and in this case with the addition of a vocalist – is an important ensemble in 20th- and 21st-century classical music and is referred to as a Pierrot ensemble.

The atonal, expressionistic settings of the text, with their echoes of German cabaret, bring the poems vividly to life. Sprechstimme, literally "speech-singing" in German, is a style in which the vocalist uses the specified rhythms and pitches but does not sustain the pitches, allowing them to drop or rise, in the manner of speech.

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