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Italian conductor (1933–2014)
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Commemorations 2024 (Death: Claudio Abbado)
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2024-02-12 15:35:19
Alban Berg, part II, 2024
[…] teaching jobs. We’ll listen for the first 15 minutes of Act II of Wozzeck. In Scene 1, Marie puts her son to bed, then Vozzeck arrives, gets suspicious of her earrings (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. […]
2024-02-12 02:59:29
Alban Berg - Wozzeck, Act II, Scene 2Heinz Zednik (Tenor)Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera (Orchestra)Claudio Abbado (Conductor)
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)
2024-02-05 15:57:39
Alban Berg, Part I, Early Years, 2024
[…] the concert was cut short. The Viennese public’s response could be expected, if not necessarily in its physical form (after all, their favorite music was Strauss’s waltzes), but how many American presenters would dare to program such a concert in our time, more than 100 years later? We can listen to Berg’s songs that were performed during the concert, no. 2 of op. 4 here and no. 3 here. The soprano is Renée Flemming; Claudio Abbado leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. We’ll continue with Berg and his two masterpieces, operas Wozzeck and Lulu, next week.
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