Berg: Wozzeck
Bo Skovhus (Wozzeck), Angela Denoke (Marie), Jan Blinkhof (Tambourmajor), Chris Merritt (Hauptmann), Jürgen Sacher (Andres), Renate Spingler (Margret), Frode Olsen (Doktor)
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Ingo Metzmacher
Wozzeck benefits from careful attention to Berg's actual notes - often vaguely delivered in earlier recordings - instigated by Ingo Metzmacher...Bo Skovhus's deadpan soldier disintegrates with...
Berg: Wozzeck
Bo Skovhus (Wozzeck), Angela Denoke (Marie), Jan Blinkhof (Tambourmajor), Chris Merritt (Hauptmann), Jürgen Sacher (Andres), Renate Spingler (Margret), Frode Olsen (Doktor)
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Ingo Metzmacher
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Wozzeck benefits from careful attention to Berg's actual notes - often vaguely delivered in earlier recordings - instigated by Ingo Metzmacher...Bo Skovhus's deadpan soldier disintegrates with...
About
The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI - The Home of Opera.
Bonus Disc contains synopsis and libretto with translation.
Contents and tracklist
- Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Jan Blinkhof (vocals), Bo Skovhus (bass-baritone), Angela Denoke (soprano), Chris Merritt (tenor), Frode Olsen (bass), Daniel Michel (vocals)
- Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, Kinderchor Cantilene, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester, Hamburg, Philharmonisches Staatsorcheste Hamburg, Philharmonisches Staatorchester Hamburg
- Ingo Metzmacher
- Recorded: 1998-09-27
- Recording Venue: 27./30.IX. & 03., 06.. 09.X.1998, Hamburg, Staatsoper - Live
Wohin so eilig, geehrtester Herr Sargnagel? (2. Szene: Hauptmann - Doktor - Wozzeck)
Track length10:29
This track is only available as an album download.
Ich hab' ein Hemdlein an, Das ist nicht mein ... (4. Szene: 1. & 2. Handwerksbursche - Wozzeck - Marie - Tambourmajor - Burschen [Chor]- Soldaten [Chor]- Andres - Der Narr)
Track length10:12
This track is only available as an album download.
Oh! Oh! Andres! Andres! Ich kann nicht schlafen (5. Szene: Soladten [Chor] - Wozzeck - Andres - Tambourmajor)
Track length4:57
Tanzt alle, tanzt nur zu ... (3. Szene: Wozzeck - Margret - Burschen / Chor - Dirnen / Chor)
Track length2:59
Work length34:13
This work is only available as an album download.
- Arleen Auger (soprano)
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Recorded: 1987-12-21
- Recording Venue: 19-21 December 1987/Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick
I. Rondo (Andante) und Hymne
Track length14:50
This track is only available as an album download.
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Awards and reviews
February 2011
Wozzeck benefits from careful attention to Berg's actual notes - often vaguely delivered in earlier recordings - instigated by Ingo Metzmacher...Bo Skovhus's deadpan soldier disintegrates with moving conviction
Ingo Metzmacher’s blisteringly conducted live Wozzeck — an account that blends the Sturm-und-Drang vehemence of Mitropoulos, the explosiveness of Abbado and the arch-Mahlerian beauty of Dohnanyi — also pushes Bo Skovhus to provide a powerfully characterised Wozzeck.
January 2011
The advantages of hearing this opera live are demonstrated very effectively through Bo Skovhus's intense and theatrical account of the title-role, with Angela Denoke as an impressive Marie, never afraid to take dramatic risks ...but perhaps the real star of this set is Ingo Metzmacher - he conducts a Wozzeck of electrifying drive and unflinching modernity...hearing this set is a tremendous experience
2010 edition
Metzmacher draw[s] powerful, clean-textured playing from his orchestra, firmly establishing this as a high romantic work, whatever its modernist credentials. The casting is strong too, with Bo Skovhus singing with clean focus in the title-role, and with Marie superbly sung by Angela Denoke, sensuous on the one hand, tenderly affecting on the other.
24th April 2014
Metzmacher pays careful attention to the wealth of orchestral detail in this score to create a truly unsettling performance.
