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German operatic soprano (1937-2009)
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2024-02-12 15:35:19
Alban Berg, part II, 2024
[…] (they were given to her by the Captain), gives her some money and leaves. In Scene 2, the Doctor and the Captain walk the street; they see Wozzeck, make fun of him and insinuate that Marie isn’t faithful. Wozzeck runs away in despair. Claudio Abbado conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera (we know the orchestra as the Vienna Philharmonic); Wozzeck is sung by Franz Grundheber, his common-law wife Marie is Hildegard Behrens. Heinz Zednik is the Captain, Aage Haugland is the Doctor. Wozzeck was an atonal opera, but it wasn’t a 12-note composition, the technique which by then was being developed by Schoenberg. Berg was receptive to it and soon moved in a similar direction. He wrote two pieces, Kammerkonzert (Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments), completed in 1925, and Lyric Suite, a year later, which broadly used the 12-tone technique. In […]
2024-02-12 02:55:18
Alban Berg - Wozzeck, Act II, Scene 1Hildegard Behrens (Soprano)Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera (Orchestra)Claudio Abbado (Conductor)
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-09 21:08:25
[…] while we pondered Art for a few minutes. Mark DeVoto saw Ozawa conduct only a few times, but found every occasion memorable. “I heard his Gurrelieder in Symphony Hall in 1977, a solid but not notably exciting performance which Ozawa conducted (as he, of course, almost always did) from memory, leaving Schoenberg’s score glaringly visible on the conductor’s desk and never opening it. Ten years later he did a semi-staged Wozzeck, with Luxon and Behrens in the lead roles, and George Perle told me afterward it was one of the most moving performances he had ever heard. A few years later I had a fourth-row seat at a special concert that included the American premiere of Arthur Lourié’s fascinating Blackamoor of Peter the Great, followed by a magical performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Kremer, all superbly controlled. I didn’t hear more than a portion of Messiaen’s seven-hour […]
2023-11-28 14:00:29
Jailhouse Roccos
Chris’s Cache wraps up November with Régine Crespin’s Chicago Leonore; two rare Met Fidelios headed by Christa Ludwig and Hildegard Behrens; and a concert performance with Birgit Nilsson led by Leonard Bernstein, plus a final twist: excerpts of Carol Vaness in Leonore.
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