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Offer,Berg: Wozzeck

Andrew Shore (Wozzeck), Josephine Barstow (Marie), Alan Woodrow (Drum Major), Peter Bronder (Andres), Stuart Kale (Hauptmann), Clive Bayley (Doktor), John Graham-Hall (Narr), Jean Rigby (Margaret)

Susan Singh Choristers, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Daniel

This is one of the finest recordings so far in Chandos's 'Opera in English' series, and there's certainly no need to make allowances for the performance because of the language. A Wozzeck to... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 9th July 2003 More…

Release Date: 14th May 2003
Catalogue No: CHAN3094(2)
Label: Chandos
Series: Opera in English
Length: 91 minutes

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Berg: Wozzeck

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Josephine Barstow (soprano), Stuart Kale (tenor), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Clive Bayley (bass), John Graham Hall (tenor), Alan Woodrow (tenor), Peter Bronder (tenor), Andrew Shore (baritone), Iain Paterson (bass), Leslie John Flanagan (baritone)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Susan Singh Choristers, Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Daniel

Act I Scene 1: Slowly, Wozzeck, slowly! (Captain, Wozzeck)

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Act I Scene 1: Wozzeck, you are a decent man, and yet … (Captain, Wozzeck)

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Act I Scene 2: Andres! This place is accursed! (Wozzeck, Andres)

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Act I Scene 2: Listen. There's something moving there below us! (Wozzeck, Andres)

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Act I Scene 3: Military music off-stage - Tschin, Bum, Tschin, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum! (Marie, Margret)

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Act I Scene 3: What will you do now, poor lamb? … (Marie)

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Act I Scene 3: Marie sunk in thought - Knocking at the window - Who's there? (Marie, Wozzeck)

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Act I Scene 4: This is monstrous, Wozzeck! (Doctor, Wozzeck)

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Act I Scene 4: Wozzeck - Just like a lunatic! (Doctor, Wozzeck)

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Act I Scene 5: Show me how you parade! (Marie, Drum Major)

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Act II Scene 1: How they glisten brightly! (Marie)

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Act II Scene 1: Wozzeck enters, unseen - What's that, there? (Wozzeck, Marie)

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Act II Scene 2: Why are you rushing, my dearest friend (Captain, Doctor)

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Act II Scene 2: Hey, Wozzeck! (Doctor, Captain)

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Act II Scene 2: But what are you trying to tell me, Herr Doktor (Wozzeck, Captain, Doctor)

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Act II Scene 3: God morning, Franz (Marie, Wozzeck)

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Act II Scene 3: Scene change (Slow Landler) - Tavern music onstage

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Act II Scene 4: I've got a shirt on, though it is not mine … (First Apprentice, Second Apprentice) - Tavern music onstage - Him! Her! Damn!

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Act II Scene 4: A hunter from the Rhine (Youths, Soldiers, Andres, Wozzeck)

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Act II Scene 4: And yet, if a traveller pauses (First Apprentice, Soldiers, Youths, Andres, The Idiot, Wozzeck)

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Act II Scene 5: Mmmmmm (Soldiers, Wozzeck, Andres)

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Act II Scene 5: I am a man! (Drum Major, Andres, A Soldier, Wozzeck)

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Act III Scene 1: And out of his mouth (Marie)

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Act III Scene 1: And once there was a lonely child (Marie)

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Act III Scene 1: And falling on her knees before Him (Marie)

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Act III Scene 2: The town is over there (Marie, Wozzeck)

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Act III Scene 2: The moon rises - How the moon rises red! (Marie, Wozzeck)

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Act III Scene 3: Dance, damn you! (Wozzeck, Margret, A Youth, Wenches, Youths)

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Act III Scene 4: The dagger? Where is the dagger? (Wozzeck)

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Act III Scene 4: I ought to wash myself clean (Wozzeck, Captain, Doctor)

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Act III Scene 4: Scene change (Invention on a Key)

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Act III Scene 5: Ring-a-ring-a-roses, all fall down! (Children, First Child, Second Child, Third Child, Marie's Boy)

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9th July 2003

This is one of the finest recordings so far in Chandos's 'Opera in English' series, and there's certainly no need to make allowances for the performance because of the language. A Wozzeck to be measured against the very finest modern recordings, a genuine alternative to any one of them, linguistically and musically.

2010

This is a fine Wozzeck; the perfect complement to the outstanding Abbado version which has been the top recommendation for so long.
Abbado's was recorded live in Vienna, and any studio recording of an opera risks sounding score-bound when compared with a real, live performance in the theatre. But with Wozzeck a studio ambience can bring real advantages, especially if it underlines the kind of claustrophobic intimacy and obsessiveness which theatrical histrionics inevitably broaden and – in some instances – coarsen. Ranting and raving are kept to a minimum in Paul Daniel's interpretation, and the result is intensely moving without in any way underplaying the music's visceral dramatic power.
One result of Daniel's concentrated yet warmly expressive moulding of the score is a strong sense of its late-Romantic background in Strauss and also in Mahler. The Philharmonia play superbly throughout, and the recording successfully balances a spacious orchestral canvas of the widest dynamic range while placing the voices effectively. Nor are there any weak links in the cast, with three tenors, John Graham- Hall, Stuart Kale and Alan Woodrow, making particularly telling contributions. Josephine Barstow has one or two squally moments in delineating Marie's bewilderment and fear, but her voice remains in remarkably good shape, and the character's conflicting impulses are brilliantly conveyed. Shore is one of the best operatic baritones of our time, and he dominates the drama with an utterly convincing blend of the menacing and the pathetic. Moreover, his way with the text is exemplary.
This performance proves that an English Wozzeck can easily match the impact of the best German performances. Its virtues are such that it makes as powerful a case for this extraordinary work as any other version.

Offer,Berg: Wozzeck

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