Alban Berg: Opera - Wozzeck (Chandos Audio CD)

Opera - Wozzeck

Alban Berg (1885-1935)


Wozzeck 91:43
Opera in three acts (fifteen scenes), Op. 7
Libretto by Alban Berg after Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck
English translation by Richard Stokes

COMPACT DISC ONE
Act I
Scene 1
1 'Slowly, Wozzeck, slowly!' 3:57
Captain, Wozzeck
2 'Wozzeck, you are a decent man, and yet . . .' 4:44
Captain, Wozzeck

Scene 2
3 'Andres! This place is accursed!' 3:12
Wozzeck, Andres
4 'Listen. There's something moving there below us!' 3:08
Wozzeck, Andres

Scene 3
5 Military music off-stage - 2:01
'Tschin, Bum, Tschin, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum!'
Marie, Margret
6 '''What will you do now, poor lamb? . . .''' 2:02
Marie
7 Marie sunk in thought - Knocking at the window - 4:03
'Who's there?'
Marie, Wozzeck

Scene 4
8 'This is monstrous, Wozzeck!' 4:48
Doctor, Wozzeck
9 'Wozzeck - Just like a lunatic!' 2:59
Doctor, Wozzeck

Scene 5
10 'Show me how you parade!' 3:01
Marie, Drum Major
34:00

COMPACT DISC TWO
Act II
Scene 1
1 'How they glisten brightly!' 3:02
Marie
2 Wozzeck enters, unseen - 2:36
'What's that, there?'
Wozzeck, Marie

Scene 2
3 'Why are you rushing, my dearest friend' 4:34
Captain, Doctor
4 'Hey, Wozzeck!' 2:16
Doctor, Captain
5 'But what are you trying to tell me, Herr Doktor' 3:06
Wozzeck, Captain, Doctor

Scene 3
6 'God morning, Franz' 3:32
Marie, Wozzeck

7 Scene change [Slow Ländler] - Tavern music onstage - 2:51

Scene 4
'I've got a shirt on, though it is not mine . . .'
First Apprentice, Second Apprentice
8 Tavern music onstage - 1:48
'Him! Her! Damn!'
Wozzeck, Marie, Drum Major
9 'A hunter from the Rhine' 1:42
Youths, Soldiers, Andres, Wozzeck
10 'And yet, if a traveller pauses' 4:54
First Apprentice, Soldiers, Youths, Andres, The Idiot, Wozzeck

Scene 5
11 'Mmmmmm' 2:05
Soldiers, Wozzeck, Andres
12 'I am a man!' 2:28
Drum Major, Andres, A Soldier, Wozzeck

Act III
Scene 1
13 '''And out of his mouth''' 1:49
Marie
14 '''And once there was a lonely child''' 1:09
Marie
15 '''And falling on her knees before Him''' 1:55
Marie

Scene 2
16 'The town is over there' 2:53
Marie, Wozzeck
17 The moon rises - 1:55
'How the moon rises red!'
Marie, Wozzeck

Scene 3
18 'Dance, damn you!' 2:55
Wozzeck, Margret, A Youth, Wenches, Youths

Scene 4
19 'The dagger? Where is the dagger?' 2:25
Wozzeck
20 'I ought to wash myself clean' 2:15
Wozzeck, Captain, Doctor

21 Scene change [Invention on a Key] 3:18

Scene 5 (last)
22 'Ring-a-ring-a-roses, all fall down!' 1:56
Children, First Child, Second Child, Third Child, Marie's Boy
57:43
Andrew Shore baritone - Wozzeck
Alan Woodrow tenor - Drum Major
Peter Bronder tenor - Andres
Stuart Kale tenor - Captain
Clive Bayley bass - Doctor
Leslie John Flanagan baritone - First Apprentice
Iain Paterson bass - Second Apprentice
John Graham-Hall tenor - The Idiot
Dame Josephine Barstow soprano - Marie
Jean Rigby mezzo-soprano - Margret
Marie's Boy, Soldiers and Lads, Girld and Whores, Children
Susan Singh Choristers
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Daniel
Recorded in:
Watford Colosseum
14-18 July 2002
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Michael Common (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit / 96K