Opera - Wozzeck

ALBAN BERG (1885-1935)

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Wozzeck

91:43

Opera in three acts (fifteen scenes), Op. 7

Libretto by Alban Berg after Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck

English translation by Richard Stokes

Act I

Scene 1

1

'Slowly, Wozzeck, slowly!'

3:57

Captain, Wozzeck

2

'Wozzeck, you are a decent man, and yet . . .'

4:44

Captain, Wozzeck

Scene 2

3

'Andres! This place is accursed!'

3:12

Wozzeck, Andres

4

'Listen. There's something moving there below us!'

3:08

Wozzeck, Andres

Scene 3

5

Military music off-stage -

2:01

'Tschin, Bum, Tschin, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum!'

Marie, Margret

6

'''What will you do now, poor lamb? . . .'''

2:02

Marie

7

Marie sunk in thought - Knocking at the window -

4:03

'Who's there?'

Marie, Wozzeck

Scene 4

8

'This is monstrous, Wozzeck!'

4:48

Doctor, Wozzeck

9

'Wozzeck - Just like a lunatic!'

2:59

Doctor, Wozzeck

Scene 5

10

'Show me how you parade!'

3:01

Marie, Drum Major

Act II

Scene 1

11

'How they glisten brightly!'

3:02

Marie

12

Wozzeck enters, unseen -

2:36

'What's that, there?'

Wozzeck, Marie

Scene 2

13

'Why are you rushing, my dearest friend'

4:34

Captain, Doctor

14

'Hey, Wozzeck!'

2:16

Doctor, Captain

15

'But what are you trying to tell me, Herr Doktor'

3:06

Wozzeck, Captain, Doctor

Scene 3

16

'God morning, Franz'

3:32

Marie, Wozzeck

17

Scene change [Slow Ländler] - Tavern music onstage -

2:51

Scene 4

'I've got a shirt on, though it is not mine . . .'

First Apprentice, Second Apprentice

18

Tavern music onstage -

1:48

'Him! Her! Damn!'

Wozzeck, Marie, Drum Major

19

'A hunter from the Rhine'

1:42

Youths, Soldiers, Andres, Wozzeck

20

'And yet, if a traveller pauses'

4:54

First Apprentice, Soldiers, Youths, Andres, The Idiot, Wozzeck

Scene 5

21

'Mmmmmm'

2:05

Soldiers, Wozzeck, Andres

22

'I am a man!'

2:28

Drum Major, Andres, A Soldier, Wozzeck

Act III

Scene 1

23

'''And out of his mouth'''

1:49

Marie

24

'''And once there was a lonely child'''

1:09

Marie

25

'''And falling on her knees before Him'''

1:55

Marie

Scene 2

26

'The town is over there'

2:53

Marie, Wozzeck

27

The moon rises -

1:55

'How the moon rises red!'

Marie, Wozzeck

Scene 3

28

'Dance, damn you!'

2:55

Wozzeck, Margret, A Youth, Wenches, Youths

Scene 4

29

'The dagger? Where is the dagger?'

2:25

Wozzeck

30

'I ought to wash myself clean'

2:15

Wozzeck, Captain, Doctor

31

Scene change [Invention on a Key]

3:18

Scene 5 (last)

32

'Ring-a-ring-a-roses, all fall down!'

1:56

Children, First Child, Second Child, Third Child, Marie's Boy

Andrew Shore baritone - Wozzeck

Alan Woodrow tenor - Drum Major

Peter Bronder tenor - Andres

Stuart Kale tenor - Captain

Clive Bayley bass - Doctor

Leslie John Flanagan baritone - First Apprentice

Iain Paterson bass - Second Apprentice

John Graham-Hall tenor - The Idiot

Dame Josephine Barstow soprano - Marie

Jean Rigby mezzo-soprano - Margret

Marie's Boy, Soldiers and Lads, Girld and Whores, Children

Paul Daniel

14-18 July 2002

'All translations involve compromises, and the virtues of this recording are such that it makes as powerful a case for this extraordinary work as any other version I've heard.'


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