We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Live from the 2009 Dallas Festival of Modern Music: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21. Conductor Jordan Randall Smith leads Ars Nova Dallas at the 2009 Dallas Festival of Modern Music. Disc is signed. Visit www.jordanrsmith.com for more information.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Pierrot Lunaire via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 14 days
    5 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • DVD + Digital Album

    Pierrot Lunaire: Live from the Dallas Festival of Modern Music (DVD): Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21. Conductor Jordan Randall Smith leads Ars Nova Dallas at the 2009 Dallas Festival of Modern Music. Disc is signed. Visit www.jordanrsmith.com for more information.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Pierrot Lunaire via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 14 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $35 USD or more 

     

about

Pierrot visits the Virgin Mary, looking to her for peace, but only finding the sorrowful respect and despair for the fate of she and her Son. We see the embitterment of Pierrot in the final phrase.

Conductor Jordan Randall Smith conducts Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Smith leads Ars Nova Dallas at the 2009 Dallas Festival of Modern Music.

More information at www.jordanrsmith.com

lyrics

Steig, o Mutter aller Schmerzen, Rise, o mother of all sorrows
Auf den Altar meiner Verse! The altar of my verses!
Blut aus deinen magren Brusten Blood from your meager breasts
Hat des Schwertes Wut vergossen. The sword's anger has spilled

Deine ewig frischen Wunden Your eternally fresh wounds
Gleichen Augen, rot und offen. Resemble eyes, red and open.
Steig, o Mutter aller Schmerzen, Rise, o mother of all sorrows
Auf den Altar meiner Verse! On the altar of my verses!

In den abgezehrten Händen In emaciated hands
Hältst du deines Sohnes Leiche. You hold your son's corpse
Ihn zu zeigen aller Menschheit - To show all mankind--
Doch der Blick der Menschen meidet But the gaze of men shuns
Dich, o Mutter aller Schmerzen! You, a mother of all sorrows.

credits

from Pierrot Lunaire, released August 15, 2014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jordan Randall Smith image

Jordan Randall Smith Baltimore, Maryland

Award-winning conductor Jordan Randall Smith is a conductor, percussionist, vocalist, writer, composer, music educator, and writer from Dallas currently living in Baltimore. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Dallas Festival of Modern Music, Asst. Conductor of the Peabody Opera Theater, and a Cover Conductor with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. ... more

contact / help

Contact Jordan Randall Smith

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

Jordan Randall Smith recommends:

If you like Jordan Randall Smith, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now