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The 10 Most Pioneering Yet Polarizing Premieres in Classical Music listverse.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from listverse.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From an evening with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott to a spate of concerts from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the season is brimming with an impressive variety of classical events. Arts critic Lloyd Schwartz rounds up the performances he's looking forward to. ....
Pierrot Lunaire is a work that defies classification. Sometimes it’s described as a cabaret, while The Times called it ‘absurdist dreamscapes’. Technically, it’s a cycle of 21 songs, written for chamber ensemble and a singer or reciter in ‘sprechgesang’: speech-singing, a style that extends both in directions neither could ever normally explore. Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire sets 21 poems in German translation from the fantastical 50-poem cycle of the same name by Albert Giraud about Pierrot the clown and his obsession with the moon. There has been nothing else quite like it, either before or since. Igor Stravinsky referred to the work as the ‘solar plexus… of early 20th-century music’. With Patricia Kopatchinskaja at the helm, nothing can be predicted – except wide-eyed wonder and first-class musicianship. Southbank Centre Resident Artist Kopatchinskaja first learned the vocalisations when she was suffering from tendonitis and temporarily could not play the violin ....
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