Pierrot Lunaire and cabaret

[verismissimo]

I've recently been listening for the first time to Schoenberg's cabaret songs, his Brettl-Lieder of 1901, and was struck by how strongly they foreshadow Pierrot Lunaire, which came eleven years later, in 1912.
And listening again to the Jane Manning/Nash Ensemble/Rattle recording from 1977 (was it his first?), that feeling is reinforced. What a great work - and what a performance!

[Roehre]

I've recently been listening for the first time to Schoenberg's cabaret songs, his Brettl-Lieder of 1901, and was struck by how strongly they foreshadow Pierrot Lunaire, which came eleven years later, in 1912.
And listening again to the Jane Manning/Nash Ensemble/Rattle recording from 1977 (was it his first?), that feeling is reinforced. What a great work - and what a performance!

Pierrot is (admittedly rather mad) cabaret (something which did escape Stravinsky as he composed his PL-style Japanes Lyrics, nearly immediately after attending PL's premiere in Berlin). And IIRC the first gestation of PL's music started not much later than 1901 already.

Schönberg's own 1942 recording of the work shows clearly that relationship with "popular" cabaret too.

[verismissimo]

... Schönberg's own 1942 recording of the work shows clearly that relationship with "popular" cabaret too.

Can't find that 1942 recording on CD, Roehre. Any advice on how I might obtain it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can't find that 1942 recording on CD, Roehre. Any advice on how I might obtain it?

It doesn't appear to be currently available, even second-hand (which must be a first!) - but there are excerpts on youTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7bQnwEUnk