New Music Albums: PIERROT PORTRAITS (Claire Booth, Ensemble 360)

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Artist:
Claire Booth
Ensemble 360

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
75:03

Record Label:
‎ Onyx Classics

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
September 27, 2024




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Product Description: The figure of the clown has always had associations with the carnivalesque, masks and madness. The ability of Pierrot to be melancholic yet murderous, a trickster yet romantic can easily be traced back to the commedia del arte tradition of the 17th century. However, more interesting still is the older tradition of Carnival. Pierrot's ability to rape, steal, commit bigamy and suicide while simultaneously offering protestations of love or playing practical jokes is understood clearly within the context of carnival, that medieval Feast of Fools replete with drunken orgies on the altar table, indecent gestures, disrobing. The festival upends order. Fools become kings, appetites, both sexual and gormandising replace restraint. Pierrot represents human vice, he is outside of the law, and thus outside of sin. He makes us dream of a life which is purely sensual and freed from the yoke of conscience. Claire Booth and Ensemble 360 explore the fascination with the multi-faceted Pierrot by composers as diverse as Thea Musgrave, Debussy, Korngold, Amy Beach and, of course Schoenberg's groundbreaking Pierrot Lunaire.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Carnaval, Op. 9: II. Pierrot Tim Horton (02:01)

2 . Pierrot Dandy Claire Booth & Tim Horton (02:12)

3 . Columbine Claire Booth & Tim Horton (01:53)

4 . Pierrot: I. Pierrot: Andante espressivo Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (02:30)

5 . Pierrot: II. Columbine: Con frivolezza Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (03:26)

6 . Pierrot: III. Pierrot’s Serenade: Spettrale Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (02:33)

7 . Pierrot: IV. Harlequin: Con energia Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (02:03)

8 . Pierrot: V. Harlequin attacks Pierrot: Furioso Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (02:32)

9 . Pierrot: VI. Columbine rejects Pierrot: Molto meno mosso Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (01:56)

10 . Pierrot: VII. Harlequin’s Serenade: Sensuale Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (02:14)

11 . Pierrot: VIII. Pierrot: Andante espressivo Benjamin Nabarro, Robert Plane & Tim Horton (01:46)

12 . Pierrot, L 30 . Claire Booth & Tim Horton (01:53)

13 . Les Rêves de Colombine, Op. 65: No. 3, Valse Amoureuse Tim Horton (02:57)

14 . Songs of Pierrot, Op. 4: No. 4, Nordpolfahrt Claire Booth & Tim Horton (02:05)

15 . ie tote Stadt, Op. 12, Act II: Tanzlied des Pierrot ((Arr. for Cello & Piano)) Gemma Rosefield & Tim Horton (05:19)

16 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: I. Mondestrunken (01:44)

17 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: II. Columbine (01:47)

18 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: III. Der Dandy (01:31)

19 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: IV. Eine blasse Wäscherin (01:28)

20 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: V. Valse de Chopin (01:32)

21 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: VI. Madonna (02:06)

22 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: VII. Der kranke Mond (02:58)

23 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: VIII. Die Nacht (02:31)

24 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: IX. Gebet an Pierrot (01:03)

25 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: X. Raub (01:18)

26 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XI. Rote Messe (01:58)

27 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XII. Galgenlied (00:17)

28 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XIII. Enthauptung (02:18)

29 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XIV. Die Kreuze (02:26)

30 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XV. Heimweh (02:29)

31 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XVI. Gemeinheit (01:14)

32 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XVII. Parodie (01:23)

33 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XVIII. Der Mondflek (00:51)

34 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XIX. Serenade (02:58)

35 . Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XX. Heimfahrt (01:59)

36 .Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: XXI. O alter Duft (02:10)

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