5023363012720

Roger Marsh Pierrot Lunaire

Hilliard Ensemble

Regular
£24.99
Sale
Regular
£24.99
Unavailable
Unit Price
per 

Format: 2CD

Cat No: NMCD127

Release Date:  14 April 2007

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5023363012720

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary  

  • Description

    Roger Marsh, long fascinated by the poems which Schoenberg set for his Pierrot Lunaire, has completed a setting of Albert Giraud's brilliant and allusive original texts, ignored by Schoenberg commentators over the years.

    Marsh's settings use both the original French and a new English translation specially commissioned from Kay Bourlier — sometimes simultaneously — and feature solo voice, choirs, a human beatbox and a narrator in the role of the poet himself. This recording, supervised by the composer, features The Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, together with vocal trio Juice, the Ebor Singers and vocalist Linda Hirst, whose work has ranged from early music with John Eliot Gardiner to contemporary performance with Electric Phoenix.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Part One:No.1-22 - Roger Marsh

      Disc 2

      • 1. Part Two:No.23 (28 Tracks) - Various Artists