Pelleas Und Melisande Op. 5 / Erwartung Op. 17

Schoenberg noted on the score that it is through composed; yet, musical interpretation has always varied from listener to listener. Whatever the case, in Pelleas und Melisande, Schoenberg created a sensually opulent masterpiece on the threshold of modernism. The same brilliant creativity is exposed in his miniature opera Erwartung. Both works show Schoenberg at two very different, yet pinnacle points of his compositional development.