Schoenberg Pelleas and Melisande- recommended recordings?

[vinteuil]

Just to return to pedantry for a moment, (and these things are MUCH more serious than music issues, of course), but your chosen quote, Beef Oven, 'When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea', is from the inimitable Eric Cantona, not Bobby Charlton...or did you intend that as a joke?

... it was, of course, Eric

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/when-the-seagulls-follow-the-trawler-it-is-because-they-think-sardines-will-be-thrown-into-the-sea-1613641.html

[Beef Oven]

... it was, of course, Eric

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...a-1613641.html

I think you'll find it was Bobby Charlton.

[vinteuil]

I think you'll find it was Bobby Charlton.

... of course it was

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3221471.stm

[Stanfordian]

This work has rather passed me by . I am quite partial to late romantic Schoenberg however Gurrelieder and Verklarte Nacht so seeing that DG have released a live Boulez nine years after it was recorded ! Is that the one to choose or the earlier Boulez, ,Karajan , Mehta, Craft, Sinopoli or even Barbirolli ???

There is new release of Pelleas und Melisande a superb live recording from October 2011 at the Philharmonie in Cologne played by the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne under Jukka-Pekka Saraste on the label Profil, Edition Gunter Hanssler PH12021. The coupling is a fine version of Ewartung, Op. 17 from the same concert with Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet as soprano.

[ahinton]

I think you'll find it was Bobby Charlton.

Gosh! - and there I was, labouring under the delusion that it came from the Communist Manifesto!

Anyway, when the seagulls fly too far inland, as they do where I used to live in Bath and where they do even more so here, they risk getting shot (albeit not be me).

Swiftly back to that marvellous Schönberg work, methinks, after that forced seagull interlude!...

[Beef Oven]

Gosh! - and there I was, labouring under the delusion that it came from the Communist Manifesto!

Anyway, when the seagulls fly too far inland, as they do where I used to live in Bath and where they do even more so here, they risk getting shot (albeit not be me).

Swiftly back to that marvellous Schönberg work, methinks, after that forced seagull interlude!...

Yes, The Communist Manifesto isn't your strong point is it?