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Work: Pierrot lunaire

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ComposerSchoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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MarvãoSpecial Concert - Ars ad Hoc

Festival Internacional De Música De Marvão
Berg, Schoenberg
Ars ad Hoc; Ana Catarina Caseiro; Ricardo Carvalho; Horácio Ferreira
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Late night lunaire: Schoenberg's Pierrot with Claire Booth

Claire Booth © Marcus Roth | Britten Pears Arts
A  midsummer night but no moonshine for this madness in the Britten Studio. 
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A virtuosic Pierrot lunaire at Suntory Hall Chamber Music Garden

Michaela Selinger and ensemble © Koji Iida | Suntory Hall
Suntory Hall Chamber Music Garden celebrates Schoenberg's anniversary with a virtuosic and gripping performance of his unique song cycle Pierrot lunaire, featuring Michaela Selinger as the moon-drunk clown. 
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Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor

Magdalena Anna Hofmann, Christine Schäfer and Klangforum Wien © Werner Kmetitsch
What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.
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StockholmSchönberg's Pierrot lunaire

© Fredrik Sandblad
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
Andreas Alin; Mats Allard; Joakim Wendel

ParisBoulez - Ensemble intercontemporain

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Debussy, Boulez, Schoenberg
Ensemble intercontemporain; Pierre Boulez; Frédérique Cambreling; Anja Silja
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Bachtrack top ten: Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg in his apartment, Liechtensteinstrasse 68/70, Vienna, 1907 © Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
Who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg? His music was met with great hostility from critics and audiences, but his revolutionary “serial” method became the foundation for musical modernism in the 20th century.

Romantic expressions: Arnold Schoenberg before serialism

Arnold Schoenberg in his flat in Vienna (1911) © Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
Schoenberg is known as the inventor of serialism, but he also worked in lush Romanticism and anguished Expressionism. Enjoy this exploration of his early work.