Arnold Schoenberg - Gurrelieder [Score] (4K)

Riccardo Chailly, Conductor
Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin
St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir

Susan Dunn: Tove
Siegfried Jerusalem: Waldemar
Brigitte Fassbaunder: Waldtaube
Hermann Becht: Bauer
Peter Haage: Klaus-Narr
Hans Hotter: Narrator

PART I
0:00 - 1. Prelude
7:10 - 2. Waldemar: Nun dämpft die Dämmerung
10:55 - 3. Tove: O, wenn des Mondes Strahlen
14:05 - 4. Waldemar: Ross! Mein Ross!
16:58 - 5. Tove: Sterne jubeln
19:23 - 6. Waldemar: So tanzen die Engel
21:39 - 7. Tove: Nun sag ich dir zum ersten Mal
25:28 - 8. Waldemar: Es ist Mitternachtszeit
30:42 - 9. Tove: Du sendest mir einen Liebesblick
36:17 - 10. Waldemar: Du wunderliche Tove!
40:00 - 10a. Orchestral Interlude
44:36- 11. Voice of the Wood-Dove: Tauben von Gurre

PART II
56:02 - 12. Waldemar: Herrgott, weisst du, was du tatest

PART III
1:00:25 - 13. Waldemar: Erwacht, König Waldemars Mannen wert!
1:02:28 - 14. Bauer: Deckel des Sarges Klappert
1:05:53 - 15. Waldemar's Men: Gegrüsst, O König
1:10:16 - 16. Waldemar: Mit Toves Stimme flüstert der Wald
1:14:49 - 17. Klaus-Narr: Ein seltsamer Vogel
1:21:01 - 18. Waldemar: Du strenger Richter
1:23:28 - 19. Waldemar's Men: Der Hahn erhebt den Kopf

Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd / The Summer Wind's Wild Hunt
1:28:46 - 20. Orchestral Prelude
1:31:23 - 21. Sprecher: Herr Gänsefuss, Frau Gänsekraut
1:36:25 - 22. Mixed Chorus: Seht die Sonne!


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!").