Berg: Wozzeck
Walter Berry (Wozzeck), Isabel Strauss (Marie), Fritz Uhl (Tambourmajor), Carl Doench (Doktor), Albert Weikenmeier (Hauptmann), Richard van Vrooman (Andres), Ingeborg Lasser (Margret), Gérard Dunan (Narr)
Orchestre & Choeur de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Classical Album of the Year
Berg: Wozzeck
Walter Berry (Wozzeck), Isabel Strauss (Marie), Fritz Uhl (Tambourmajor), Carl Doench (Doktor), Albert Weikenmeier (Hauptmann), Richard van Vrooman (Andres), Ingeborg Lasser (Margret), Gérard Dunan (Narr)
Orchestre & Choeur de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Classical Album of the Year
About
Wozzeck is today established as one of the greatest operas of the twentieth century although public reaction was divided at the start. In three acts, each of five scenes, the opera plays continuously and is a superb example of German symphonic drama in which Berg also makes use of symbolic characterization and he succeeds in humanising the potentially subhuman Wozzeck and Marie through powerful and highly emotional music.
Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list.
Contents and tracklist
- Walter Berry (bass baritone), Albert Weikenmeier (tenor), Richard van Vrooman (tenor), Ingeborg Lasser (contralto), Isabel Strauss (soprano), Carl Dönch (bass baritone), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Karl Dönch (bass baritone), Gerard Dunan (tenor), Raymond Steffner (tenor), Walter Poduschka (bass)
- Pierre Boulez
Spotlight on this release
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Music to commemorate the First World War
29th Jul 2014
David picks out some recordings of works particularly closely linked to the Great War - those written in response to it, or influenced by composers' experiences of the fighting.
