Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
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Performer: Alban BergPerformer: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra: Hildegard Behrens
Orchestra: Anna Gonda
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Act 1 Scene 1. Langsam, Wozzeck, langsam!
- Act 1 Scene 2. Du, der Platz ist verflucht!
- Act 1 Scene 3. Tschin Bum...! H?rst Bub? Da kommen sie!
- Act 1 Scene 4. Was erleb'ich, Wozzeck?
- Act 1 Scene 5. Geh einmal vor Dich hin...
- Act 2 Scene 1. Was die Steine gl?nzen!
- Act 2 Scene 2. Wohin so eilig, geehrtester Herr Sargnagel?
- Act 2 Scene 3. Guten Tag, Franz.
- Act 2 Scene 4. Ich hab' ein Hemdlein an, das ist nicht mein...
- Act 2 Scene 5. Oh! Oh! Andres! Ich kann nicht schlafen.
- Act 3 Scene 1. Und ist kein Betrug in seinem Munde erfunden worden...
- Act 3 Scene 1. Und kniete hin zu seinen F??en
- Act 3 Scene 2. Dort links geht's in die Stadt.
- Act 3 Scene 3. Tanzt Alle; tanzt nur zu...!
- Act 3 Scene 4. Das Messer? Wo ist das Messer?
- Act 3 Scene 5. Ringel, Ringel, Rosenkranz, Ringelreih'n
Music reviews of Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
Music Review: Great orchestra, but Abbado misses the terror and mystery
Rating: 3 Stars
Abbado falters when he conducts careful, reticent performances and misses the music's inner passion. This Wozzeck seems like that to me, in spsite of its technical brilliance. The orchestra s recorded far forward with incredible detail, and one couldn't expect any better than from the Vienna Phil.
But the singers, reduced sometimes to a secondary attraction, don't catch fire, particularly the Wozzeck of veteran Grundheber, which is just good, middle-of-the-road work. almost every other major Wozzeck on record--Walter Berry, Fischer-Dieskau, Eberhard Waechter, and the first, Mack Harrell--seems much more inspired and dramatically intense. Behrens is a gripping Marie, and her somewhat threadbare voice by this time sounds just right for this worn-out proletarian victim. All in all, a set to value for its orchestral detail but not for the action onstage.
Description of Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
This 1988 Vienna State Opera production of Wozzeck is, to my ears, vastly superior to the 1979 performance by Christoph von Dohn?nyi with the same orchestra. The entire emotional and dynamic range of the music is here, projected in striking relief. The anxieties of the tale are unflinchingly portrayed, but so, too, are the many moments of tenderness and rapturous beauty. The cast--Franz Grundheber plays the title role and Hildegard Behrens portrays Marie--are skilled dramatists as well as voices, even on record. The disc commemorates one of the rare instances when a company has done justice to the dazzling splendor of Berg's conception. --Joshua CodyGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Berg, Alban
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( V ) > Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Modern & 20th Century
- Languages > German
- Operettas
- Berg, Alban - Works by Berg
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