Alban Berg: 8-CD Box Set Collector's Edition (CD 7) (2003)

Alban Berg (1885 - 1935), along with Schoenberg and Webern, is considered as one of the pioneers of avant-garde movement and it would be a great disservice to leave him out of the discussion of contemporary music. After all, it was the hardcore advocates of serialism and the 12-tone chromaticism, founded by Schoenberg and propagated by his two prodigies, that gave roots to the later generations of eclectic bag of composers. Being the most outwardly romantic of the three composers of the Second Viennese School, Berg's music is the most suggestive of the post-romanticism of Wagner and Mahler. Berg was something of a musical dilettante when he began his studies with Schoenberg in 1903. Ultimately, he composed relatively little music, beginning with the Altenberg Lieder in 1912, followed by the Three Orchestral Pieces in 1914. It was in that same year that he began to write an opera based on a play by Georg Büchner. Wozzeck was composed during Berg's service in World War I, and finished in 1922. The opera was given its first performance at the Berlin State Opera in 1925, and was received with a mixture of horror, admiration, heavy criticism, awe and perception. Atonal and highly Expressionistic, yet tightly constructed, the fifteen musical scenes all being based on older musical forms. Berg embraced the twelve-tone system developed by Schoenberg, composing the Lyric Suite for string quartet, the Chamber Concerto, and a Violin Concerto employing those principles. Berg's last work, the opera Lulu, was left in a somewhat incomplete state at the time of his premature death in 1935. The opera's third act was completed based on the composer's score by Friedrich Cerha in 1963, and received its "world premiere" in Paris in 1979. So, with no further ado, I'm proud to present the daddy-o of the modern music.

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Tracklist

Disc 7


• Lulu
  
  Act III
  
  1. "Meine Herrn und Damen!" … "Der Staatsanwalt bezahlt demjenigen"
  
  Gerd Nienstedt, Bass
  Jules Bastin, Bass
  Claude Meloni, Tenor
  Helmut Pampuch, Tenor
  Kenneth Riegel, Tenor
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  Pierre-Yves Le Maigat, Baritone
  Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-Soprano
  Anna Ringart, Mezzo-Soprano
  Ursula Boese, Mezzo-Soprano
  Jane Manning, Soprano
  
  2. "Brilliant! Es geht brilliant" (Alwa, Journalist, Ban- kier, Kunstgewerblerin, Mutter, Fünfzehnjährige, Rodrigo, Marquis, Groom, Diener, Lulu /Dialog:Gräfin, Lulu)
  
  Kenneth Riegel, Tenor
  Claude Meloni, Tenor
  Jules Bastin, Bass
  Anna Ringart, Mezzo-Soprano
  Ursula Boese, Mezzo-Soprano
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  Jane Manning, Soprano
  Gerd Nienstedt, Bass
  Helmut Pampuch, Tenor
  Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-Soprano
  Pierre-Yves Le Maigat, Baritone
  Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano
  
  3. "Einen Moment! Hast du meinen Brief gelesen?" (Rodrigo, Lulu, Groom, Bankier)
  
  Gerd Nienstedt, Bass
  Teresa Stratas, Singer
  Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-Soprano
  Jules Bastin, Bass
  
  4. "Ich brauche nämlich notwendig Geld" (Schigolch, Lulu)
  
  Toni Blankenheim, Baritone
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  
  5. "Behandeln sie mich doch wenigstens anständig" (Rodrigo, Marquis, Lulu)
  
  Gerd Nienstedt, Bass
  Helmut Pampuch, Tenor
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  
  6. "Martha! Mein liebes Herz, du kannst mich heute vor "
  
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano
  Gerd Nienstedt, Bass
  
  7. "Wollen sie wohl diese Aktie akzeptieren" (Journalist, Bankier, Mutter, Kunstgewerblerin, Alwa, Fünfzehnjährige, Diener)
  
  Claude Meloni, Tenor
  Jules Bastin, Bass
  Ursula Boese, Mezzo-Soprano
  Anna Ringart, Mezzo-Soprano
  Kenneth Riegel, Tenor
  Jane Manning, Soprano
  Pierre-Yves Le Maigat, Baritone
  
  8. Verwandlungsmusik / Interlude
  
  9. "Der Regen trommelt zur Parade" (Schigolch, Alwa, Lulu)
  
  Toni Blankenheim, Baritone
  Kenneth Riegel, Tenor
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  
  10. "Wenn ich dir ungelegen komme" - "Ihr Körper stand auf dem Höhepunkt" (Gräfin Geschwitz, Lulu, Schigolch, Alwa)
  
  Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  Toni Blankenheim, Baritone
  Kenneth Riegel, Tenor
  
  11. "Komm nur herein, mein Schatz" (Lulu, Neger, Schigolch)
  
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  Robert Tear, Tenor
  Toni Blankenheim, Baritone
  
  12. "Der Herr Doktor haben sich schon zur Ruhe begeben" (Schigolch, Gräfin Geschwitz)
  
  Toni Blankenheim, Baritone
  Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano
  
  13. "Wer ist das?" (Jack, Lulu)
  
  Franz Mazura, Baritone
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  
  14. "Das ist der letzte Abend" - "Lulu! Mein Engel!" (Gräfin Geschwitz, Lulu, Jack)
  
  Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano
  Teresa Stratas, Soprano
  Franz Mazura, Baritone
  
  Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris
  Pierre Boulez, Conductor
• Wozzeck
  
  Act I
  
  15. Scene 1: The Captain's room
  "Langsam, Wozzeck, langsam!"
  
  16. Scene 2: An open field outside the town
  "Du, der Platz ist verflucht!" "Ach was!"
  
  17. Scene 3: Marie's room
  "Tschin Bum, Tschin Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum! Hörst Bub? Da kommen sie!"
  
  Hildegard Behrens, Soprano
  Anna Gonda, Alto
  Franz Grundheber, Baritone
  Philip Langridge, Tenor
  
  Wiener Philharmoniker
  Claudio Abbado, Conductor
  
  
  Total Playing Time: 1'19"
Deutsche Grammophone Collectors Edition
DG 474 657-2
Released 2003

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