Wozzeck

by Alban Berg

Wozzeck cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Country: Austria
  • Community rating: 4.02/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This critically acclaimed 1965 recording, conducted by Karl B枚hm and featuring Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, is a masterful realization of Alban Berg's devastating atonal opera. The nightmarish, highly structured Expressionist score perfectly mirrors the psychological descent of its exploited protagonist. The intense, agonizingly precise vocal and orchestral performances solidified the work's reputation as a towering masterpiece of 20th-century music.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern, atonal, operatic, orchestral, theatrical, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Act I: Scene 1 - In The Barracks
  2. Act I: Scene 2 - In A Field
  3. Act I: Scene 3 - Marie's Room (3:05)
  4. Act I: Scene 4 - The Doctor's Study (Next Day)
  5. Act I: Scene 5 - A Street (3:00)
  6. Act II: Scene 1 - Marie's Room (3:05)
  7. Act II: Scene 2 - A Street (8:52)
  8. Act II: Scene 3 - In Front Of Marie's House
  9. Act II: Scene 4 - A Beer Garden
  10. Act II: Scene 5 - The Barracks (4:30)
  11. Act III: Scene 1 - Marie's Room (3:05)
  12. Act III: Scene 2 - By A Pond
  13. Act III: Scene 3 - A Tavern (2:54)
  14. Act III: Scene 4 - By A Pond
  15. Act III: Scene 5 - A Street (1:44)

Credits

  • Alban Berg - primary artist, composed by
  • Dimitri Mitropoulos - primary artist, conductor
  • Schola Cantorum Of New York - chorus
  • The High School Of Music And Art - chorus [children - members of]
  • Johnny Smith - guitar
  • Georg B眉chner - libretto by [from the book by]
  • Adolph Anderson - vocals [1st artisan]
  • Hubert Norville - vocals [2nd artisan]
  • Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York - Primary Artist

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