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Wozzeck
Composed by Alban Berg
Performed by Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra
with Carl-Johan Falkman, Klas Hedlund, Marianne Eklöf, Sten Wahlund, Katarina Dalayman, Ulrik Qvale, Swedish Opera Chorus
Conducted by Leif Segerstam
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You know of Wozzeck's reputation as a 20th-century masterpiece, but also of its complex, atonal musical language, so you're reluctant to invest heavily in a recording. Well, as so often before, Naxos comes to the rescue. At super-budget price, this is a vivid account of Berg's haunting masterpiece--his setting of Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck, a tale of madness, jealousy and murder. The recording collates three staged performances at the Kungliga Teatern in Stockholm, with plenty of atmosphere--yet no loss of presence as far as the voices are concerned (indeed the balance favours them). Leif Segerstam draws from the Royal Opera Orchestra a reading of commitment and clarity which relishes both the surreal and the ravishing: sample Katarina Dalayman's passionate singing in Act 1 Scene 3, for example. Her contribution as Marie is outstanding; ditto Ulrik Qvale's Doctor. As Wozzeck, Carl Johan Falkman is hardly required to caress the ear--from the outset he hu! rls himself, with all the vocal imagination one could wish, into his manic persona. Nowhere do we more gain the benefit of live performance than in the horrifying climax; the closing moments almost unbearable. --Andrew Green
You know of Wozzeck's reputation as a 20th-century masterpiece, but also of its complex, atonal musical language, so you're reluctant to invest heavily in a recording. Well, as so often before, Naxos comes to the rescue. At super-budget price, this is a vivid account of Berg's haunting masterpiece--his setting of Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck, a tale of madness, jealousy and murder. The recording collates three staged performances at the Kungliga Teatern in Stockholm, with plenty of atmosphere--yet no loss of presence as far as the voices are concerned (indeed the balance favours them). Leif Segerstam draws from the Royal Opera Orchestra a reading of commitment and clarity which relishes both the surreal and the ravishing: sample Katarina Dalayman's passionate singing in Act 1 Scene 3, for example. Her contribution as Marie is outstanding; ditto Ulrik Qvale's Doctor. As Wozzeck, Carl Johan Falkman is hardly required to caress the ear--from the outset he hu! rls himself, with all the vocal imagination one could wish, into his manic persona. Nowhere do we more gain the benefit of live performance than in the horrifying climax; the closing moments almost unbearable. --Andrew Green
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