Robert Craft - Pelleas Et Melisande Erwartung

Schoenberg' polyphonic tone poem Pelleas und Melisande is often compared to Debussy' opera based on the same text by Maurice Maeterlinck. According to the composer, "The first performance, 1905, in Vienna, under my own direction, provoked riots amo.

1) Beginning
2) Lebhaft
3) Sehr Rasch
4) Rehearsal 23
5) Langsam
6) Sehr Langsam
7) Sehr Langsam
8) Scene 1
9) Scene 2
10) Scene 3
11) Scene 4