Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

For violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja a bout of tendonitis was the perfect opportunity to widen her musical perspective by taking on the title role in Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, as she tells Toby Deller.

The following is an extract from an article in The Strad’s February issue in which violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja talks about taking on the title role in Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire. To read in full, click here to subscribe and login. The February 2021 digital magazine and print edition are on sale now.

Since first appearing as Pierrot in 2015, Kopatchinskaja has performed the role live many times (one version with musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic is available at the orchestra’s Digital Concert Hall). Her second performance, which she followed up by playing Ravel’s Tzigane, was in the unlikely surroundings of an alcohol-free bar in Salt Lake City, Utah. For that she dressed up in costume and remembers trying to decide what makeup to choose, as does her alter ego in ‘Der Dandy’, the third poem in the cycle. ‘I must say, it was a shock when I saw myself in the mirror. I thought, “What am I doing? Now I am completely mad.”’

Although that gave her a strong experience of inhabiting a different persona, she insists that performing in a guise other than that of violinist is no more than an extension of herself. ‘It’s not another book, let’s say: it’s the same vocabulary. It just gives even more freedom. I must say performing as Pierrot also helped me to develop, not only as a musician but as a violinist.

TRACKLIST

1. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - I. Mondestrunken
2. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - II. Colombine
3. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - III. Der Dandy
4. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - IV. Eine blasse Wäscherin
5. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - V. Valse de Chopin
6. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - VI. Madonna
7. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - VII. Der kranke Mond
8. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - VIII. Nacht (Passcaglia)
9. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - IX. Gebet an Pierrot
10. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - X. Raub
11. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XI. Rote Messe
12. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XII. Galgenlied
13. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XIII. Enthauptung
14. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XIV. Die Kreuze
15. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XV. Heimweh
16. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XVI. Gemeinheit!
17. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XVII. Parodie
18. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Der Mondfleck
19. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XIX. Serenade
20. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XX. Heimfahrt (Barcarole)
21. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - XXI. O alter Duft
22. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Emperor’s Waltz, Op. 437
23. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47
24. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - I. Sehr langsam
25. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - II. Rasch
26. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - III. Sehr langsam
27. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - IV. Bewegt
28. Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Little Viennese March
29. Joonas Ahonen - I. Leicht, zart
30. Joonas Ahonen - II. Langsam
31. Joonas Ahonen - III. Sehr Langsam
32. Joonas Ahonen - IV. Rasch, aber leicht
33. Joonas Ahonen - V. Etwas rasch
34. Joonas Ahonen - VI. Sehr langsam



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