Maurice Maeterlinck's 1892 play Pelléas et Mélisande provided inspiration for an opera by Claude Debussy, a tone poem by Arnold Schoenberg, and incidental music by Gabriel Fauré and Jean Sibelius. This Supraphon double-disc compilation invites side-by-side comparison of these interpretations of the famous Symbolist drama, and listeners will find they share brooding and tragic moods that fit Maeterlinck's story of forbidden love. Yet each retelling of the story unfolds in a dramatically different musical style: Debussy's ...
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Maurice Maeterlinck's 1892 play Pelléas et Mélisande provided inspiration for an opera by Claude Debussy, a tone poem by Arnold Schoenberg, and incidental music by Gabriel Fauré and Jean Sibelius. This Supraphon double-disc compilation invites side-by-side comparison of these interpretations of the famous Symbolist drama, and listeners will find they share brooding and tragic moods that fit Maeterlinck's story of forbidden love. Yet each retelling of the story unfolds in a dramatically different musical style: Debussy's five-act opera, represented here as an orchestral "symphonie" arranged by Marius Constant, is one of the masterpieces of Impressionism, while Sibelius' suite is cast in his passionate post-Romantic vein; and though Schoenberg's intensely chromatic and harmonically unsettled work anticipates the expressionism of his atonal period, Fauré's four-movement suite (source of the popular Sicilienne) conveys fin de siècle sentiment with neo-Classical poise. These live recordings by Serge...
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Add this copy of Pelléas et Mélisande to cart. $35.26, new condition, Sold by Importcds rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sunrise, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Supraphon.
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Arnold Schoenberg; Gabriel Fauré; Jean Sibelius; Marius Constant. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
Add this copy of Pelleas Et Melisande Symphonie to cart. $39.05, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Supraphon.
Add this copy of Pelléas et Mélisande to cart. $60.07, new condition, Sold by Entertainment by Post - UK rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BRISTOL, SOUTH GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2007 by Supraphon.
