Alban Berg Collection (2003)

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"The best music always results from ecstasies of logic." – "When I decided to write an opera, my only intentions were to give the theater what belongs to the theater"

Alban Berg

Tracklisting:

CD 1

1-3 - Three Pieces for Orchestra op.6 (1915)
4-6 - Three Pieces from the "Lyric Suite" (1928)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, conductor

7-8 - Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" (1935)

Anne Sophie Mutter, violin
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine, conductor


CD 2

1-3 - Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments (1923-25)

Daniel Barenboim, piano
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, conductor

4 - Sonata for Piano op.1 (1908)

Daniel Barenboim, piano

5-8 - Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano op.5 (1913)

Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Oleg Maisenberg, piano

9 - Adagio from the Chamber Concerto (1935)

Gidon Kremer, violin
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Oleg Maisenberg, piano

10 - Wein, Weib und Gesang, op.333 (JOHANN STRAUSS II/trans.: ALBAN BERG - 1921)

Boston Symphony Chamber Players


CD 3

1-6 - Lyric Suite for String Quartet (1926)
7-8 - String Quartet op.3 (1909-10)

Lasalle Quartet

9-15 - Seven Early Songs, version with piano (1905-08)

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Bengt Forsberg, piano

16 - Schließe mir die Augen beide (1907 version)
17 - An Leukon (1908)
18 - Schließe mir die Augen beide (1925 version)

Margaret Marshall, soprano
Geoffrey Parsons, piano

19-22 - 4 Lieder op.2

ADietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Aribert Reimann, piano


CD 4

1-7 - Seven Early Songs, version with orchestra (1928)

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, conductor

8-12 - Altenberg-Lieder, op.4 (1912)

Juliane Banse, soprano
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, conductor

13 - "Der Wein". Konzertarie mir Orchester (1929)

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, conductor

14-18 - "Lulu" Suite, Symphonic Pieces from the opera "Lulu" (1934)

Juliane Banse, soprano
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, conductor


CD 5

Lulu, opera in three acts after Frank Wedekind (1929-1935)

1 - Prolog

ACT I

2-3 - Scene 1: A painter's studio
4-9 - Scene 2: An elegant drawing-room
10-12 - Scene 3: A dressing-room in a theatre


CD 6

ACT II

1-6 - Scene 1: A magnificent room in German Renaissance style
7-10 - Scene 2: The same room


CD 7

ACT III

1-9 - Scene 1: A spacious drawing-room in Paris
7-10 - Scene 2: An attic room in London

Lulu - Teresa Stratas, soprano
Geschwitz - Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano
Alwa - Kenneth Riegel, tenor
Painter - Robert Tear, tenor
Schön - Franz Mazura, baritone

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez, conductor

Wozzeck, opera in three acts after Georg Büchner (1917-1922)

ACT I

15 - Scene 1: The Captain's room
16 - Scene 2: Open countryside
17 - Scene 3: Marie's room


CD 6

ACT I (cont.)

1 - Scene 4: The Doctor's study
2 - Scene 5: Street in front of Marie's door

ACT II

3 - Scene 1: Marie's room4
4 - Scene 2: Street in the town
5 - Scene 3: Street in front of Marie's door
6 - Scene 4: The garden of an inn
7 - Scene 5: Guard-room in the barracks

ACT III

8-9 - Scene 1: Marie's room
10 - Scene 2: Path in the wood by a pond
11 - Scene 3: A tavern
12 - Scene 4: Path in the wood by the pond
13 - Scene 5: Street in front of Marie's door

Marie - Hildegard Behrens, soprano
Drum Major - Walter Raffeiner, tenor
Andres - Philip Langridge, tenor
Captain - Heinz Zednik, tenor
Wozzeck - Franz Grundheber, baritone
Doctor - Aage Augland, bass

Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Sängerknaben
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, conductor