Erwartung - text and translation

[mathias broucek]

I seem to have four recordings of this work and NONE of them has text or translation (I mean Op 17, not the song by the same name).

Google has drawn a blank (except a vocal score with a handwritten translation) and my usual workaround (Chandos website) is similarly no good (the label’s own recording has German text only).

Any suggestions? I recently acquired the Haitink Radio Recordings box and was looking forward to listening to Dorow and Bernie do their thing in this work, preferably following the narrative....

[bluestateprommer]

I found what looks like the same vocal score with handwritten translation link, from a 1979 University of British Columbia Master's thesis:

https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0100281

This may be your only option, short of taking sections of the text from Gardner's new Chandos recording, feeding them into Google Translator (no more than 5K words at a time, of course), and then pasting the translated sections into a text document/Word file.

PS: The Google Translator text feeding option might be easier from this link (after you scroll down about 40% of the way):

http://archive.schoenberg.at/compositions/werke_einzelansicht.php?werke_id=472&herkunft=allewerke

[Petrushka]

It's included in this issue of the Sinopoli recording.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schonberg-Pierrot-Lunaire-Erwartung-Elatus/dp/B000071WEG/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=erwartung&qid=1586648696&s=music&sr=1-13

[jayne lee wilson]

Also included here, in German/English parallel translation.........( an excellent album all-around...)
"Anja Silja has no peer in the projection of its emotional extremes... Craft is alive to the music's myriad subtleties..... a great interpetation..." Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone 4/2001).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schoenberg-Transfigured-Erwartung-Anja-Silja/dp/B086TPQG91/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=schoenberg+craft+koch&qid=1586650803&sr=8-1

....The text wasn't included in the Naxos reissue (c/w Pelleas), though that had a very detailed synopsis....

[mathias broucek]

Thanks all. I have the handwritten vocal score and will probably go with that. It comes as a shock when there's nothing on the Web!

[A Robyn]

Here's a link to publically shared scans of the Philips (Jessye Norman/Levine) & Teldec (Alessandra Marc/Sinopoli) booklets: https://we.tl/t-TkSxmBFNa4

[mathias broucek]

Here's a link to publically shared scans of the Philips (Jessye Norman/Levine) & Teldec (Alessandra Marc/Sinopoli) booklets: https://we.tl/t-TkSxmBFNa4

Just sitting down to listen. Thanks very much indeed

[Bryn]

Here's a link to publically shared scans of the Philips (Jessye Norman/Levine) & Teldec (Alessandra Marc/Sinopoli) booklets: https://we.tl/t-TkSxmBFNa4

Thanks. Naughty but nice.

[mathias broucek]

Thanks. Naughty but nice.

I'm aware it's technically a breach of copyright but I think I've done more than most over the years to help the record business. And I actually have the Marc/Sinopoli, but in a box of all Sinopoli's Second Viennese School recordings (and I realise you're being tongue in cheek)

[Petrushka]

A shelf search has found that I have the text and translation included with the original CD issues of BBCSO/Boulez and CBSO/Rattle.

Now if only I could obtain all those opera libretti I badly need...

[Pulcinella]

A shelf search has found that I have the text and translation included with the original CD issues of BBCSO/Boulez and CBSO/Rattle.

Now if only I could obtain all those opera libretti I badly need...

I have 'big box' versions of Boulez and Rattle, so no text.......but then I remembered that it's the 'filler' to the Decca Dohnányi Wozzeck, with Anja Silja as soloist; the booklet for that DOES have the text.

[SGardner]

I share the frustration - the best I have found is the libretto (in parallel with Italian translation) at https://www.flaminioonline.it/Guide/...g17-testo.html

One would have hoped that the Arnold Schoenberg Centre, https://www.schoenberg.at/index.php/de/, would have all relevant vocal texts, but this is not so

[Pulcinella]

I share the frustration - the best I have found is the libretto (in parallel with Italian translation) at https://www.flaminioonline.it/Guide/...g17-testo.html

One would have hoped that the Arnold Schoenberg Centre, https://www.schoenberg.at/index.php/de/, would have all relevant vocal texts, but this is not so

Is this not what you're looking for?

https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=4375

PS: Oops! I suspect not.

[HighlandDougie]

There is a reproduction of the original score, with text, here:

https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/digital-scores-and-libretti/catalog/37-990092614350203941

but I suspect that it might be a bit challenging if it's the libretto/text which is of primary interest. IMSLP has a much cleaner reproduction of the score at:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:IMSLPImageHandler/b%2Fbd%2FPMLP185510-Schoenberg_-_Erwartung_%28Vocal_Score_arr_Steuermann%29.pdf%2F secnp

but it needs a bit of perseverance to access it, as in, ignore the stuff about paying anything and click 'download'.

There is an English translation of the text at:

https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/schoenberg-erwartung-wolpe-symphony

if one clicks liner notes.

Booklet for Ed Gardner's Chandos recording may be accessed at:

https://www.eclassical.com/labels/chandos/schoenberg-erwartung-op-17-pelleas-und-melisande-op-5.html

which has, 'extra material for download', as in a PDF of the booklet which includes the text in German.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks very much for reproducing this, HD.