Schönberg - Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (with Pierre Boulez) | Lucerne Festival, 2003

Symphonic poem for orchestra after the drama by Maurice Maeterlinck
Symphonic concert of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the baton of Pierre Boulez
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Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
Pierre Boulez - conductor

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Arnold Schönberg - Pelleas und Melisande Op. 5
Symphonic poem for orchestra after the drama by Maurice Maeterlinck
Theme of destiny
Theme of the ring
The awakening of Melisande`s love
A fountain in the park
Golo's suspicion and jealousy
A castle tower
The castle vaults
A fountain in the park
Pelleas and Melisande: love scene and farewell
Melisande's grief - theme 1
Melisande's grief - theme 2
Melisande dies in her room
Love awakens in the dying Melisande
Melisande dies
Golo's despair: theme of the ring

Richard Wagner, Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg - this combination shows perfectly Pierre Boulez' concept of modernism. In his interpretation of "Prelude, Tristan und Isolde", "Pelléas et Mélisande" and Alban Berg's Violin Concerto he follows the revolutionary harmonic development of musical modernism. Pierre Boulez - undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the music of our time - conducts the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. The ensemble was founded in 1986 by the initiative of Maestro Abbado and consists of musicians under the age of 26 from all countries of Europe. Soloist Akiko Suwanai is the youngest first-prize recipient (1990) in the history of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.