Pierrot Portraits
18 October 2024, 9:45pm - 10:45pm
For the second of Ensemble 360’s concerts today, they are joined by the soprano Claire Booth for a performance of a venerated 20th-century work, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. With its innovative use of ‘Sprechstimme’ and atonal harmonic language, Pierrot elicited extreme reactions, both positive and negative, at its 1912 premiere. Tonight’s superb cast of musicians have recently recorded Pierrot Lunaire, alongside works by Amy Beach and Poldowski that also complete tonight’s programme.
Photos: ©️ Malcolm Nabarro
Programme
- Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964)
- Pierrot Dandy (1909)
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Pierrot (1881) L15
- Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
- Valse amoureuse (piano solo) from Les rêves de Colombine
- Régine Poldowski (1879 - 1932)
- Colombine (1912)
- Max Kowalski (1882 - 1956)
- 7. Nordpolfahrt from Songs of Pierrot
- Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
- Tanzlied des Pierrot (for cello & piano) from Die tote Stadt
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Pierrot Lunaire (1912) Op. 21
Artists
Series
11 October 2024 | 12:00am
Cities of Song [Festival 2024]
Festival Passes
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