Organization

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Singer

Soprano

Soile Isokoski

Tove

Mezzo-soprano

Karen Cargill

Waldtaube

Tenor

Stephen Gould

Waldemar

Burkhard Ulrich

Klaus-Narr

Bass-baritone

Lester Lynch

Peasant

Spoken

Thomas Quasthoff

Narrator

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Others

MDR Leipzig Radio Choir

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Rundfunkchor Köln

Simon Rattle conducts “Gurre-Lieder”

Berlin

Germany

Berliner Philharmonie

Großer Saal

Arnold Schoenberg is primarily known as the founder of 12-tone music. However, with his 1899 Gurre-Lieder, based on a wild and romantic folk tale, he showed himself to be a master of the voluminous musical style of late Romanticism. Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker presented the work in October 2013 as the finale to the Philharmonie’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

Simon Rattle conducts “Gurre-Lieder”: Gurre-Lieder Schoenberg,A

Public

Gurre-Lieder

Approved

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