Berg: Wozzeck (2-CD) – Roman Trekel
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Berg: Wozzeck (2-CD) – Roman Trekel
Composer: Alban Berg
Artists: Roman Trekel, Anne Schwanewilms, Marc Molomot, Nathan Berg, Gordon Gietz, Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera Children’s Chorus, Chorus of the Rice University Shepherd School of Music
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Naxos
CD Release Date: January 13, 2017
Based on real events and playwright Georg Büchner’s starkly vehement text, Alban Berg’s tragic opera Wozzeck is an epoch-making work, in stark contrast to the previous high romantic ideals of the genre, that led Schoenberg to exclaim, “Now that’s what I call an opera!”
Immensely powerful and heartbreakingly moving as a drama, Wozzeck explores the victimization, despair and madness of a central character who has no place in society, its deeply humane message and sublimely innovative score firmly establishing it as a 20th-century masterpiece.
History
Alban Berg’s Wozzeck
Berg’s landmark work, based on Georg Büchner’s unfinished play, changed the operatic landscape when it premiered in Berlin in 1925. A searing portrayal of an oppressed individual in a hostile society, set to an atonal score, it has remained as relevant and contemporary ever since.
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