Sound Secrets, Suddenly All Is Over
Donald Macleod explores Berg's Vienna, a city of breathtaking change. Shockwaves were felt from new discoveries in sciences and the arts and new fears were unleashed as the Austrian empire began to crumble. Vienna's young artists produced deliberately radical works of art designed to shock.
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Alban Berg
III: Uber die Grenzen des All (Beyond the bounds of space)
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez Artist: Jessye Norman, Soprano
- Sony Classical SK 66826 t9.
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Alban Berg
Four Songs Op 2 (1909-10)
Performers: Irwin Gage, Piano Artist: Dagmar Peckova, Soprano
- Supraphon SU 3434-2 231 t19-22.
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Alban Berg
Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6 (1913-5)
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado
- Deutsche Grammophon 445 846-2 t9-11.
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Alban Berg
Excerpt from Act III from Wozzeck, Op. 7 (1914-1922
Stuart: Kale, Tenor (Captain) Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Paul Daniel Dame: Josephine Barstow, Soprano (Marie) Artist: Andrew Shore, Baritone (Wozzeck) Artist: Jean Rigby, Mezzo-soprano (Margret) Artist: Clive Bayley, Bass (Doctor) Artist: Lads, Whores, Children, Marie's boy Artist: Susan Singh Choristers Artist: Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
- Chandos 3094(2) CD2 t13-22.
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Alban Berg
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1925) (Close both my eyes, Theodor Storm, 1925)
Performers: Ann Schein, Piano Artist: Jessye Norman, Soprano
- Sony Classical SK 66826 t25.
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