{"id":49090,"date":"2024-10-25T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4f6308e9-7d30-478c-8e38-032758727789"},"modified":"2024-10-31T18:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:09:50","slug":"pierrot-portraits","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/pierrot-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierrot Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 13:28 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html> <head\/> <body> <p><strong>Pierrot Portraits<\/strong><br\/> Works by Beach, Korngold, Schoenberg, Musgrave et al<br\/> Claire Booth (soprano); Ensemble 360<br\/><em>Onyx ONYX4246\u00a0\u00a0\u00a060:09 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"> <audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/10\/CHORSONG-Schoenberg-Pierrot-Lunaire-Op.-21-III.-Der-Dandy-.mp3\"\/> <\/figure> <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Clip: Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 \u2013 III. Der Dandy (from Pierrot Portraits)<\/h6> <p>\u2018An absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary for ever\u2019 declared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/igor-stravinsky\">Stravinsky<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/ludwig-van-beethoven\">Beethoven<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Grosse Fuge<\/em>. He might well have said the same of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/arnold-schoenberg\">Schoenberg<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud\u2019s Pierrot Lunaire<\/em>.<\/p> <p>Over a century since its premiere the unshakeable frisson of modernism clings to it still, even if the poetry as translated by Hartleben seems feverishly hyperventilated today. Claire Booth has already gilded the Schoenberg anniversary year with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/reviews\/choral-song\/schoenberg-expressionist-music\">a compelling album of songs<\/a> back in May.<\/p> <p>Now she turns to\u00a0<em>Pierrot Lunaire<\/em>\u00a0and contextualises it in <em>Pierrot Portraits <\/em>with a prefatory sequence that opens with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/robert-schumann\">Schumann<\/a>\u2019s obsessing depiction from\u00a0<em>Carnaval<\/em>, enlists songs by Schoenberg\u2019s contemporaries and smuggles in Thea Musgrave\u2019s vividly-drawn eight-movement trio, a quicksilver, voiceless\u00a0<em>scena<\/em>\u00a0complete with two interrupted serenades and\u00a0<em>commedia dell\u2019arte<\/em>\u00a0knock-about.\u00a0<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/five-best-works-thea-musgrave\">Five of the best works by Thea Musgrave<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>Bringing the enterprising \u2018vorspiel\u2019 to an inspired close is a transcription for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/cello\">cello<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/piano-parts\">piano<\/a> of the\u00a0<em>Tanzlied des Pierrot<\/em>\u00a0from Korngold\u2019s\u00a0<em>Die Tote Stadt<\/em>, ravishingly played by Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton.\u00a0<\/p> <p>An absorbed and absorbing account of\u00a0<em>Pierrot Lunaire\u00a0<\/em>is the main event. Schoenberg insisted that the vocalist should stick closely to the score, and Booth is scrupulously attentive. No detail escapes her. Confiding, conversational, anguished, enraptured, she inhabits the piece whose instrumental filigree is perfectly judged by the conductorless Ensemble 360.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/what-does-a-conductor-do\">What does a conductor do?<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>From the delicate, perfumed intoxication of \u2018Mondestrunken\u2019 to the skittish cabaret-inflected \u2018Gemeinheit\u2019, <em>Pierrot Portraits<\/em> is nothing short of a triumph!\u00a0<em>Paul Riley<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 13:28 PM Pierrot Portraits Works by Beach, Korngold, Schoenberg, Musgrave et al Claire Booth (soprano); Ensemble 360Onyx ONYX4246\u00a0\u00a0\u00a060:09 mins\u00a0 Clip: Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 \u2013 III. 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