Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder

by Seiji Ozawa

Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1979
  • Label: Philips
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:42:24
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Seiji Ozawa leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Schoenberg's vast cantata, with Jessye Norman as Tove, Tatiana Troyanos as the Wood Dove and James McCracken as Waldemar. The recording won the Gramophone Award for choral performance, with Werner Klemperer as narrator.

Genres

Descriptors: majestic, orchestral, bombastic, monumental, choral

Tracklist

  1. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 1, Orchestral Prelude (6:56)
  2. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 2, Nun dämpft die Dämmerung (Waldemar) (3:26)
  3. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 3, O, wenn des Mondes Strahlen (Tove) (3:14)
  4. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 4, Ross! Mein Ross! (Waldemar) (3:11)
  5. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 5, Sterne jubeln (Tove) (2:19)
  6. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 6, So tanzen die Engel (Waldemar) (2:01)
  7. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 7, Nun sag ich dir zum ersten Mal (Tove) (3:43)
  8. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 8, Es ist Mitternachtszeit (Waldemar) (5:01)
  9. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 9, Du sendest mir einen Liebesblick (Tove) (5:09)
  10. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 10, Du wunderliche Tove! (Waldemar) – No. 11, Orchestral Interlude (8:59)
  11. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 1: No. 12, Tauben von Gurre (Wood Dove) (12:05)
  12. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 2: No. 13, Herrgott, weisst du, was du tatest (Waldemar) (4:09)
  13. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 14. Erwacht, König Waldemars Mannen wert! (Waldemar) (2:49)
  14. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 15, Deckel des Sarges Klappert (Bauer) (3:43)
  15. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 16, Gegrüsst, o König (Waldemar's Men) (5:00)
  16. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 17, Mit Toves Stimme flüstert der Wald (Waldemar) (3:22)
  17. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 18, Ein seltsamer Vogel (Klaus the Jester) (6:08)
  18. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 19, Du strenger Richter (Waldemar) (2:12)
  19. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 20, Der Hahn erhebt den Kopf (Waldemar's Men) (5:57)
  20. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 21, Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd (Orchestral Prelude) (2:58)
  21. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 22, Herr Gänsefuss, Frau Gänsekraut (Sprecher) (5:11)
  22. Gurre-Lieder, Pt. 3: No. 23, Seht die Sonne (Mixed Chorus) (4:39)

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