Non-commercial, VHS (PAL) color, 2:49:41 (Gift of Henk Guittart) Contents
from Dutch television
documentary about Arleen Auger. Includes brief excerpts of a rehearsal
with the Schoenberg Ensemble. (7:49) -- In Dutch with English subtitles.
-- Producer, Director, Date unknown.
from televised performance
of the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, with Arleen Auger
as soprano soloist. (8:11) -- No commentary or titles. -- Producer, director,
conductor, performing group, date unknown.
of Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder at the Royal Albert Hall. Pierre Boulez
conducting; see below for
list.
Short documentary film during intermission, "The Years in Between". (2:24:22)
-- Commentary in English, with English subtitles. -- See below for
of Drei kleine Orchesterstücke (1910), Claudio Abbado conducting,
Schoenberg Ensemble? Taped from television, but no indication of when
or where program took place. (2:18) -- Performing group and production
information unknown.
| Time |
Visual |
Music |
| 0:00 |
Title: "Morgen
(R. Strauss)' Arleen Auger sings the song in the background while
we see images of waves lapping the shore, clouds moving past the
sun in the sky. |
Richard Strauss: "Morgen" |
| 1:05 |
Cut to Auger at a rehearsal with a chamber
orchestra. She is holding the score to Alban Berg's Seven Early
Songs. |
|
| 1:21 |
Cut to interview with Auger. She speaks
in English, subtitles in Dutch. She says that Mozart, Wolf and Strauss
are her favorite composers and the ones she sings most often. |
|
| 2:28 |
Cut back to rehearsal with the Schoenberg
Ensemble. |
|
| 2:54 |
Cut back to interview. Talks about how
central the Lied recital has been to her professional career. |
|
| 3:56 |
Cut back to rehearsal with chamber orchestra. |
Alban Berg: "Liebesode", from Seven
Early Songs |
| 4:48 |
Cut back to interview. Discusses about
importance of communicating feelings through words. Brief cut of
Auger rehearsing as she speaks. |
|
| 6:17 |
Cut back to rehearsal. She finishes
piece. |
Alban Berg: "Liebesode", from Seven
Early Songs |
| 7:18 |
Cut back to interview. Discusses about
unique experience of live performance. |
|
| 7:49 |
Cut to a Bach
performance with orchestra (tape blips a little); a younger Auger
sings. Might be from a different program altogether. |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Recitative and
Aria: "Ich will dir mein Herze schenken", St. Matthew Passion |
| 13:14 |
Cut to another excerpt from same Bach
performance. |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Soprano-alto
duet with chorus: "So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen", St. Matthew
Passion |
| 16:01 |
Cut to another excerpt from same Bach
performance. Auger sings a solo. Lots of shots of woodwinds playing
accompaniment. |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Recitative and
Aria: "Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben", St. Matthew Passion |
| 22:30 |
Cut
to another program. Titles: "Live from the Proms". Shot of Royal
Albert Hall. Narrator says National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
has joined forces with BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, the Brighton
Festival Chorus, the Royal Choral Society and the men's voices of
the Philharmonia Chorus--480 voices!--to perform Schoenberg's Gurrelieder,
which premiered in 1913. Conducted by Pierre Boulez. Introduction
by Michael Berkeley. Berkeley gives background regarding piece.
Tove: Jessye Norman. Waldemar: Walter Raffeiner. Wood-Dove: Elizabeth
Lawrence. |
|
| 25:30 |
Berkeley gives quick overview in English
of the plot events of the first nine songs. |
|
| 26:35 |
Performers begin to take the stage:
concertmaster, soloists, conductor. |
|
| 27:45 |
Performance begins. Prelude to Part
I. |
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder, Part I |
| 33:49 |
Waldemar: "Nun dämpft die Dämmerung
jeden Ton von Meer und Land". English subtitles. |
Song 1. |
| 37:29 |
Tove: "O, wenn des Mondes Strahlen milde
gleiten" |
Song 2. |
| 40:10 |
Waldmar: "Ross! Mein Ross! Was schleichst
du so träg!" |
Song 3. |
| 43:46 |
Tove: "Sterne jubeln, das Meer, es leuchtet" |
Song 4. |
| 45:42 |
Waldemar: "So tanzen die Engel vor Gottes
Thron nicht" |
Song 5. |
| 48:33 |
Tove: "Nun sag ich dir zum ersten Mal" |
Song 6. |
| 52:25 |
Waldemar: "Es ist Mitternachtszeit" |
Song 7. |
| 57:43 |
Tove: "Du sendest mir einen Liebesblick" |
Song 8. |
| 1:02:57 |
Waldemar: "Du wunderliche Tove!" |
Song 9. |
| 1:06:34 |
Orchestral interlude. |
Interlude. |
| 1:11:03 |
Song of the Wood Dove. |
Song of the Wood Dove. |
| 1:23:00 |
End of Part I. Applause. Voice over
returns to give closing credits. |
|
| 1:27:13 |
Intermission program about the history
of the Gurrelieder. Voiceover quotes some of Schoenberg's remarks
about the Gurrelieder. Shots of photographs of and self-portraits
by Schoenberg. |
|
| 1:28:05 |
Pierre Boulez talking about Schoenberg. |
|
| 1:28:47 |
Cut to film of Boulez's earlier rehearsal
with the Youth Orchestra. Short voiceover by narrator about Gurrelieder. |
Selection from Gurrelieder. |
| 1:29:41 |
Pierre Boulez talking about Schoenberg.
Talks about how Schoenberg fits into the cultural foment of pre-World
War I Vienna. |
|
| 1:30:57 |
Cut to photographs of and film of Vienna,
turn of the century. |
Gustav Mahler: Scherzo from the Ninth
Symphony. |
| 1:31:57 |
Cut back to Boulez talking. Views of
Klimt and Gerstl paintings shown. |
|
| 1:32:57 |
View of Klimt paintings. Close-ups of
an unnamed adult ensemble playing Schoenberg's op. 9. |
Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie no. 1, op.
9 |
| 1:34:03 |
View of photograph of Schoenberg; voiceover
quotes from Schoenberg about how his style changed after Gurrelieder. |
|
| 1:34:13 |
Cut to a painting of a string quartet
playing. Title: "String quartet no. 2, op. 10." View of Gerstl portrait
of Schoenberg, as well as various portraits by various artists of
Webern, Schoenberg, Berg, Mahler, shots of Kandinsky's Blaue Reiter
Almanac. Voiceover mentions unity of vision shared by painters and
musicians at this time. |
String quartet no. 2,
op. 10 |
| 1:35:10 |
Cut back to Boulez, talking about the
Blaue Reiter, and Schoenberg. Cut back to photograph of Schoenberg,
with voiceover quoting from Schoenberg about art. |
|
| 1:36:03 |
Cut back to Boulez, talking about relationship
between Schoenberg and Kandinsky. Views of paintings and photo of
Kandinsky. |
|
| 1:36:58 |
Cut to chamber orchestra performing
the first of Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke, op. 16,
no. 1. Titles: "Five orchestral Pieces, op. 16: no. 1 "Premonitions".
Intercut with views of Kandinsky paintings. |
Fünf Orchesterstücke, op.
16, no. 1 "Premonitions" (1909) |
| 1:37:58 |
Views of paintings by Schoenberg; narration
notes that Schoenberg began to paint at this time. Views of paintings
by Gerstl. |
|
| 1:38:43 |
Cut to film of Erwartung; intercut with
painting\ of a woman's face. |
Erwartung, op. 17 |
| 1:39:22 |
Cut to Boulez talking about Erwartung. |
|
| 1:40:10 |
Cut back to film of Erwartung, woman
running through forest. English subtitles. Cut to painting of conductor
and orchestra in concert. |
Erwartung, op. 17 |
| 1:41:57 |
Cut to Boulez talking about influence
of the cabaret on Schoenberg's music. Period photographs shown of
people in cabaret, music strikes up in the background. |
Brettllieder |
| 1:43:15 |
Cut to film of performance of Pierrot
Lunaire. Title: "Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21, no. 18 Moondust". |
Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21, no. 18: "Moondust" |
| 1:44:00 |
Cut back to youth orchestra rehearsing
the Gurrelieder. Voiceover of Berkeley interviewing Boulez; eventually
cut back to Boulez talking. Photos of Schoenberg at blackboard,
walking with students. Cut back to Boulez rehearsing. Voiceover,
then cut back and forth between Boulez talking about youth orchestra,
then rehearsing with the orchestra. |
Gurrelieder |
| 1:50:46 |
Cut back to Berkeley and audience at
Royal Albert Hall. He gives synopsis of plot events in Part II.
Song of the Peasant sung by John Bröckle[?], Jester sung by
Kenneth Riegel. Speaker: Gerd Lienhardt[?]. |
|
| 1:53:11 |
Performers take the stage. |
|
| 1:54:18 |
Music begins. Introduction to Part II. |
Gurrelieder, Part II |
| 1:55:47 |
Waldemar: "Herrgott, weißt Du,
was Du tatest" |
Song 1. |
| 1:59:36 |
Part III: "Die wilde Jagd". Waldemar:
"Erwacht, König Waldemars Mannenwert! |
Gurrelieder, Part III, Song 1 |
| 2:02:41 |
Peasant: "Dekkel des Sarges klappert
und klappt" |
Song 2. |
| 2:05:47 |
Waldemar's Men: "Gegrüßt,
o König!" |
Song 3. |
| 2:10:20 |
Waldemar: "Mit Toves Stimme flüstert
der Wald" |
Song 4. |
| 2:13:43 |
Klaus-Narr: "Ein seltsamer Vogel ist
so'n Aal" |
Song 5. |
| 2:19:50 |
Waldemar: "Dur strenger Richter droben" |
Song 6. |
| 2:22:00 |
Waldemar's Men: "Der Hahn erhebt den
Kopf zur Kraht" |
Song 7. |
| 2:28:08 |
Melodrama: "Des Sommerwindes wilde Jagd" |
Song 8. |
| 2:30:57 |
Speaker: "Herr Gänsefuß,
Frau Gänsekraut" |
Song 9. |
| 2:36:40 |
Chorus: "Seht die Sonne" |
Song 10. |
| 2:41:45 |
End of performance. Applause. Bows.
Bouquets. |
|
| 2:46:52 |
End of program. |
|
| 2:46:53 |
New
program. Title: "Arnold Schönberg. Drei Stücke für
Kammerorchester (1910)". Film of an ensemble performing these works,
Claudio Abbado conducting; Schoenberg Ensemble? Taped from television,
but no indication of where. |
3 kleine Orchesterstücke |
| 2:49:41 |
End of program. Rest of tape not relevant. |
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