Berg, Alban > Falkman, Carl Johan

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2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-10-31

Works: Orazio Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso; Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; Francesco Cavalli: Calisto; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626; George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux,...
Performers: Alperyn, Graciela; Amps, Kym; Banditelli, Gloria; Barr, Frank; Benackova, Gabriela; Biel, Ann-Christine; Bordogna, Paolo; Borst, Martina; Buchanan, Alison; Carmignani, Alessandro; Cigna, Patrizia; Da...
Conductors: Vartolo, Sergio; ; Medlam, Charles; Mallon, Kevin; Östman, Arnold; Halász, Michael; Segerstam, Leif; Zedda, Alberto; Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander; Davis, Colin; Casadesus, Jean-Claude;...
Ensemble: ; Aradia Ensemble; London Baroque; Scholars Baroque Ensemble

For 400 years, opera has illuminated the innermost recesses of human existence. Once the sport of kings and princes, it now provides the soundtrack of...continue...

Berg: Wozzeck / Segerstam, Falkman, Dalayman, Qvale

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-04-01

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7
Performers: Dalayman, Katarina; Eklof, Marianne; Eliasson, Ola; Falkman, Carl Johan; Hedlund, Klas; Quale, Ulrik; Stregard, Lennart; Wahlund, Sten
Conductors: Segerstam, Leif
Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra

Perhaps the only atonal opera to keep a place in regular repertiore, Berg's 'Wozzeck' is a remarkable study of victimization, despair and madness. Immensely powerful...continue...