Artists
Boulez Ensemble
Daniel Barenboim
Piano & Conductor
Klaus Sallmann
Piano
Michael Barenboim
Violin, Viola
Sprechgesang
Astrig Siranossian
Violoncello
Mathieu Dufour
Flute, Piccolo
Tibor Reman
Clarinet
Program
Hanns Eisler
Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain Op. 70
Franz Schubert
Introduction and Variations on "Trockne Blumen" ("Dry Flowers") in E Minor D 802 for Flute and Piano
Arnold Schönberg
Pierrot lunaire Op. 21
Approximate running time:
1h 30m
with one intermission
Arnold Schoenberg’s 1912 masterpiece Pierrot lunaire is a defining landmark of modernism. Daniel Barenboim leads the Boulez Ensemble, with soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac as the vocal soloist. The program also includes Hanns Eisler’s Vierzehn Arten, den Regen zu beschreiben—based on a 1929 film score and written for the same instruments as Schoenberg’s work, minus the voice—and Franz Schubert’s variations on a song from his own cycle Die schöne Müllerin, with Maestro Barenboim at the piano.