R Strauss - Schlagobers; Debussy - Jeux; Ligeti - Melodien
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Label: Pentatone
Cat No: PTC5186721
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 21st September 2018
Contents
Artists
Orchestre de la Suisse RomandeConductor
Jonathan NottWorks
JeuxMelodien
Schlagobers (ballet): Suite, op.70
Artists
Orchestre de la Suisse RomandeConductor
Jonathan NottAbout
Richard Strauss’s Schlagobers (Whipped Cream, 1924) is a playful ballet set in a Viennese Konditorei, of which the orchestral suite is featured on this album. With its lively mix of Viennese waltzes and modern harmonies, light-versed tunes interspersed by sudden outbreaks of ravishing beauty, all brilliantly orchestrated, it can be considered a further exploration of the composer’s “Rosenkavalier style”.
Claude Debussy is featured with Jeux, Poème dansé (1912), another piece created for a ballet performance, built around an erotic nocturnal search for a lost tennis ball that Pierre Boulez characterized as a “Prélude à-l’Après-midi d’une Faune in sports clothes”.
Debussy’s Jeux has been a major source of inspiration for post-war avantgarde composers such as Boulez and Stockhausen, and, therefore, the transition from Jeux to Györgi Ligeti’s Melodien für Orchester (1971) is not jarring. Melodien has the unmistakable mix of sensuous yet eerie soundscapes that makes most of Ligeti’s works so filmic and appealing.
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