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1. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Ob rechts ob links vorwärts oder rückwärts
2. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Ohne zu fragen?
3. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Gleichviel! Weiter!
4. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Du bist immerhin zufrieden mit dir
5. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Dies Entweder und dies Oder
6. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Gegen seinen und euren Willen
7. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Ich sollte nicht näher denn ich verliere dabei
8. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Herr verzeih meine
9. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Herr mein ganzes Leben lang
10. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Nahst du wieder den Licht?
11. Die Jacobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), oratorio: Großes symphoniesches Zwischenspiel
12. Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9
13. Accompaniment to a Film-Scene (Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene), Op. 34

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53595 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 1993-07-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Amazon.com
Schoenberg abandoned the composition of his oratorio Jacob's Ladder when he was called up for military service in 1917, and he never returned to it. The fragments of this cataclysmic work are passionately performed here by Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. This is heavy, dense, and ultimately engaging music, but it won't accompany your afternoon tea. Also featured on this disc is the First Chamber Symphony, an important work for the Viennese modernist, performed by Boulez and his Ensemble InterContemporain. --Joshua Cody

Customer Reviews

Jacobsleiter
I hope this particular recording will be in print as long as I live. Pierre Boulez has done a masterful work with the orchestra, managing to bring out the mysticism and huge drama of Schönberg's oratorio The Jacobsleiter with a rythmic agility that knows no borders!