
Berg: Wozzeck / Berry, Strauss, Boulez
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- Sony Masterworks
- October 8, 2010
Boulez is not a 'tender' conductor; nor would he wish to be found one. But, as I said before, again and again he provides a revelation of the 'meaning' of a particular passage—simply by playing it exactly as it stands: not so simply, by his apparent ability to convey the intentions of the composer's creative mind. Two final examples: the hollow bang on the bass drum in the second scene, during Wozzeck's hallucination; and the celesta/harp trickle, with other motifs exactly poised against it, while Marie in Scene 3 falls into a reverie. Each tells marvellously.
-- Gramophone [2/1967, reviewing the LP release]
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Berry [is] perhaps the best Wozzeck on record... [Boulez] is very good at nail-biting suspense and lucid clarification of complex textures...
-- Gramophone [2/1989]
-- Gramophone [2/1967, reviewing the LP release]
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Berry [is] perhaps the best Wozzeck on record... [Boulez] is very good at nail-biting suspense and lucid clarification of complex textures...
-- Gramophone [2/1989]
Product Description:
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Release Date: October 08, 2010
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UPC: 5099707925124
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Catalog Number: SONY79251
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Label: Sony Masterworks
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Number of Discs: 2
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Composer: Alban, Berg
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Performer: Inge, Richard, Lasser, Gérard, Van Vrooman, Isabel, Dunan, Walter, Strauss, Walter, Berry, Poduschka