Arnold Schoenberg - Gurrelieder (Audio + Full Score)

Performers: Waldemar - Thomas Moser Tove - Jane Eaglen Waldtaube - Marjana Lipovsek Klaus Narr - Kurt Azesberger Bauer - Franz Grundheber Sprecher - Hans Hotter Conductor - Claudio Abbado Orchestra - Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Choir - Arnold Schönberg Chor; Südfunk Chor Stuttgart; Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor Recorded at the Felsenreitschule Salzburg on as part of the Salzburg Festival. The cantata is divided into three parts. Whereas the first two parts are scored for solo voices and orchestra only, the third part introduces a further two soloists, a narrator, three four-part male choruses as well as a full mixed chorus. In the first part of the work (approx. 1 hour), the love of Waldemar for Tove and the theme of misfortune and impending death are recounted in nine songs for soprano and tenor with orchestral accompaniment. A long orchestral interlude leads to the Wood Dove’s Song which tells of Tove’s death and Waldemar’s grief. The brief second part (5 mins) consists of just one song in which the bereft and distraught Waldemar accuses God of cruelty. In the third part (approx. 45 mins), Waldemar calls his dead vassals from their graves. The undead’s restless roaming and savage hunt around the castle at night is thunderously depicted by the male chorus, until the horde, driven by the radiance of the sunrise, recedes back into death’s sleep. During this, a peasant (Bauer) sings of his fear of the eerie army and there is a humorous interlude in the grotesque song of the fool Klaus who is forced to ride with the macabre host when he would rather rest in his grave. A gentle orchestral interlude depicting the light of dawn leads into the melodrama The Summer Wind’s Wild Hunt, a narration about the morning wind, which flows into the mixed-choral conclusion Seht die Sonne! (“See the Sun!“). PART ONE: Orchestral Prelude - 0:00 Nun dämpft die Dämm’rung jeden Ton (Waldemar) - 6:29 O, wenn des Mondes Strahlen (Tove) - 10:25 Ross! Mein Ross! (Waldemar) - 13:21 Sterne jubeln (Tove) - 16:23 So tanzen die Engel vor Gottes Thron nicht (Waldemar) - 18:42 Nun sag ich dir zum ersten Mal (Tove) - 21:11 Es ist Mitternachts Zeit (Waldemar) - 25:12 Du sendest mir einen Liebesblick (Tove) - 31:15 Du wunderliche Tove! (Waldemar) - 36:21 Orchestral Interlude - 41:35 Tauben von Gurre! (Waldtaube) - 45:52 PART TWO: Herrgott, weißt du, was du tatest (Waldemar) - 57:26 PART THREE: Erwacht, König Waldemars Mannen wert! (Waldemar) - 1:02:12 Deckel des Sarges klappert (Bauer, Waldemar’s men) - 1:04:15 Gegrüsst, o König (Waldemar’s men) - 1:08:15 Mit Toves Stimme flüstert der Wald (Waldemar) - 1:13:15 Ein seltsamer Vogel ist so’n Aal (Klaus Narr) - 1:16:34 Du strenger Richter droben (Waldemar) - 1:23:00 Der Hahn erhebt den Kopf zur Kraht (Waldemar’s men) - 1:25:25 Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd / The Summer Wind’s Wild Hunt Orchestral Prelude - 1:30:21 Herr Gänsefuss, Frau Gänsekraut (speaker) - 1:32:50 Seht die Sonne! (mixed chorus) - 1:37:26 Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: Support me on Patreon: