Berg, Alban > Baritone

Ferne Geliebte: Beethoven, Berg, Haydn, Schönberg

1 CD / Sony Classical Import / 2012-06-26

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98; Adelaide, song Op. 46; Arnold Schoenberg: Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15; Franz Joseph Haydn: Lieder für Clavier Bk 1, in F minor H 26a;...
Performers: Gerhaher, Christian; Huber, Gerold

Personnel: Christian Gerhaher (baritone); Gerold Huber (piano).

Recording information: Bayerischer Rundfunk Studio 2, Munich, Germany (2012-01-21_2012-01-24&2012-)....continue...

Berg: Wozzeck; Schoenberg: Erwartung / Waechter, Silja, Winkler

2 CD / Decca / 2012-03-13

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7; Arnold Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17
Performers: Silja, Anja; Wachter, Eberhard; Zednik, Heinz
Conductors: Dohnányi, Christoph von
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Berg: Lulu / Albrecht, Petibon, Breslik, Volle, Grundheber [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2012-02-28

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu
Performers: Breslik, Pavol; Grundheber, Franz; Petibon, Patricia; Volle, Michael
Conductors: Albrecht, Marc
Ensemble: Salzburg Festival Orchestra

Alban Berg's opera "Lulu" is the story of a lower-class girl who sleeps her way to fame and fortune before losing everything she has and...continue...
Run Time: 182 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.0
Subtitles: English
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Berg: Lulu / Albrecht, Petibon, Breslik, Volle, Grundheber [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Kultur International Films / 2012-02-28

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu
Performers: Breslik, Pavol; Grundheber, Franz; Petibon, Patricia; Volle, Michael
Conductors: Albrecht, Marc
Ensemble: Salzburg Festival Orchestra

Alban Berg's opera "Lulu" is the story of a lower-class girl who sleeps her way to fame and fortune before losing everything she has and...continue...
Run Time: 182 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.0
Subtitles: English
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Berg: Lulu / Boder, Petibon, Juon, Holland, Groves [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Deutsche Grammophon / 2011-11-21

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu, opera
Performers: Groves, Paul; Grundheber, Franz; Holland, Ashley; Juon, Julia; Petibon, Patricia
Conductors: Boder, Michael
Ensemble: Barcelona Teatro Liceu Orchestra

Lulu is opera's rawest exposition of the fatal risks of untamed erotic power. No man who meets Lulu does not want her - but, like...continue...

Berg: Lulu / Levine/Met, Migenes, Lear, Riegel [DVD]

2 DVD Video / Sony Classical / 2011-08-16

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu, opera
Performers: Lear, Evelyn; Little, Frank; Mazura, Franz; Migenes, Julia; Riegel, Kenneth
Conductors: Levine, James
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Run Time: 234 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
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Levine/The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra And Chorus / James Levine - Celebrating 40 Years At The Met / [21 DVD]

21 DVD Video / Decca / 2010-12-07

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu; Wozzeck, Op. 7; John Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Giacomo Puccini: Il Trittico; Bedrich...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Bacquier, Gabriel; Battle, Kathleen; Behrens, Hildegard; Blegen, Judith; Cassilly, Richard; Clark, Graham; Creech, Philip; Dalayman, Katarina; Devlin, Michael; Fassbaender, Brigitte; F...
Conductors: Levine, James
Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

"An extraordinary career deserves an extraordinary tribute - which is exactly what the Metropolitan Opera has accomplished to mark the fortieth anniversary of James Levine's...continue...

Berg: Lulu / Pappano/Royal Opera, Eichenholz, Volle, Vogt, Larmore [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / BBC Opus Arte / 2010-07-27

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu
Performers: Eichenholz, Agneta; Hartmann, Will; Howell, Gwynne; Langridge, Philip; Larmore, Jennifer; Rose, Peter [bass voice]; Shipp, Heather; Vogt, Klaus Florian; Volle, Michael; White, Jeremy
Conductors: Pappano, Anthony
Ensemble: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Berg's masterful and thought-provoking opera tells the gripping story of the rise and fall of an alluring, destructive but vulnerable woman, culminating in her death...continue...
Run Time: 205 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 Surround
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spani...continue...

Berg: Lulu / Pappano/Royal Opera, Eichenholz, Volle, Vogt, Larmore [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / BBC Opus Arte / 2010-07-27

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu
Performers: Eichenholz, Agneta; Hartmann, Will; Howell, Gwynne; Langridge, Philip; Larmore, Jennifer; Rose, Peter [bass voice]; Shipp, Heather; Vogt, Klaus Florian; Volle, Michael; White, Jeremy
Conductors: Pappano, Anthony
Ensemble: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Berg's masterful and thought-provoking opera tells the gripping story of the rise and fall of an alluring, destructive but vulnerable woman, culminating in her death...continue...
Run Time: 205 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM 2.0, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, German...continue...

Britten: Les Illuminations; War Requiem

2 CD / Cascavelle / 2010-07-13

Works: Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations; War Requiem, Op. 66; Alban Berg: Early Songs (7)
Performers: Danco, Suzanne; Harper, Heather; Hemsley, Thomas; Pears, Peter, Sir
Conductors: Ansermet, Ernest

Even though Ansermet was a great fan of Britten, he was never able to record his works because of their recording contracts with Decca. This...continue...
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Berg: Wozzeck / Abbado, Grundheber, Behrens, Raffeiner [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2010-06-29

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7
Performers: Behrens, Hildegard; Grundheber, Franz; Haugland, Aage; Langridge, Philip; Raffeiner, Walter; Zednik, Heinz
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Claudio Abbado conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in a powerful recording of Alban Berg's influential opera, 'Wozzeck', a terrifyingly great...continue...
Run Time: 97 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo,
Subtitles: English
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Recordings from the Archives

4 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-04-06

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Schilderung eines Mädchens, song for voice & piano, WoO 107; Selbstgespräch ("Ich, der mit flatterndem Sinn"), song for voice & piano, WoO 114; Feuerfarb ("Ich weiss e...
Performers: Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Höll, Hartmut; Menuhin, Yehudi; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Reimann, Aribert; Schiff, Heinrich

These recordings made between 1959 and 1984 by one of the 20th century's most questing and influential singers - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - are appearing for...continue...

A Portrait of Hermann Uhde

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Richard Strauss: Arabella; Alban Berg: Wozzeck; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72...
Performers: Casa, Lisa della; Gehl, Hans [Piano]; Greindl, Josef; Hines, Jerome [Bass Vocal]; Rossel-Majdan, Hilde; Steber, Eleanor; Uhde, Hermann; Vocals], Christel Goltz [Soprano
Conductors: Stiedry, Fritz; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Eckner, H.; Cleva, Fausto; Kempe, Rudolf; Böhm, Karl; Hollreiser, Heinrich

Cult Operas of the 1970s: Mozart; Beethoven; Weber; etc. / Hamburg State Opera [10 DVD]

11 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2008-10-28

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von Weber: Der F...
Performers: Adam, Theo; Ahlin, Cvetka; Blankenburg, Heinz; Blankenburg, Heinz Horst; Blankenheim, Toni; Boese, Ursula; Cassilly, Richard; Deutekom, Christina; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Fliether, Herbert; Flores...
Conductors: Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Stein, Horst; Ludwig, Leopold; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Janowski, Marek; Maderna, Bruno; Kuntzsch, Matthias
Ensemble: Hamburg State Opera Chorus; Hamburg State Opera Orchestra; NDR Children's Chorus

This DVD box set contains ten historical studio productions from the Hamburg State Opera....continue...
Run Time: 1320 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Mono,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
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Eterna - Berg: Wozzeck / Kegel, Adam, Schröter, Goldberg

2 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7
Performers: Adam, Theo; Goldberg, Reiner; Grundei, Frank; Hiestermann, Horst; Klesse, Norbert; Klotz, Helmut; Rupf, Konrad; Schroter, Gisela; Tinschert, Alois; Vahle, Monika; Wlaschiha, Ekkehard; Wollrad, Rolf; ...

Triples - Berg: Lulu / Tate, Wise, Fassbaender, Schöne, Hotter

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-03-25

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu, opera
Performers: Bakow, Boris; Clarey, Cynthia; Clark, Graham [Tenor]; Dudziak, Francis; Estourelle, Catherine; Fassbaender, Brigitte [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Gutstein, Ernst; Hennequin, Herve; Hotter, Hans; Kale, Stu...
Conductors: Tate, Jeffrey
Ensemble: French National Orchestra

Berg: Wozzeck / Weigle/Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu [DVD]

1 DVD Video / BBC Opus Arte / 2007-11-20

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7
Performers: Delamboye, Hubert; Denoke, Angela; Goldberg, Reiner; Hawlata, Franz; Tierney, Vivian; Tilli, Johann
Conductors: Weigle, Sebastian
Ensemble: Chorus of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu; Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu

Calixto Bieito’s controversial but visually stunning production of 'Wozzeck' is set in a grisly, chaotic, post-industrial maze, giving a contemporary edge to the disturbing and...continue...
Run Time: 129 min.
Picture Format: NTSC, Letterbox, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): DTS 5.1 Surround, Digitally Processed
Country of Origin: Spain
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Berg: Wozzeck, etc / Sanzogno, Gobi, Picchi, Cuenod, et al

2 CD / Myto Records / 2007-06-02

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7; Concerto for Violin
Performers: Badioli, Carlo; Cuenod, Hugues; Dow, Dorothy; Gobbi, Tito; Lopatto, Dimitri; Mandalari, Maria Teresa; Monteanu, Petre; Pandano, Vittorio; Pergola, Luciano della; Picchi, Mirto; Soley, Tommaso; Sziget...
Conductors: Sanzogno, Nino; Mitropoulos, Dimitri

Alban Berg: Wozzeck / Maderna/Hamburg Phil. State Orch., Blankenheim, Sotin, Moll, Jurinac [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2007-04-24

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Cassilly, Richard; Grundheber, Franz; Haage, Peter; Jurinac, Sena; Marschner, Kurt; Moll, Kurt; Sotin, Hans; Steiner, Elisabeth; Unger, Gerhard
Conductors: Maderna, Bruno
Ensemble: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra; Hamburg State Opera Chorus

"Liebermann could not have picked a better conductor for the job. Bruno Maderna's studies with Hermann Scherchen, his uneasy blood-brotherhood with Boulez and the Darmstadt...continue...
Run Time: 106 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): Mono,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
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Berg: Lulu, Wozzeck / Karl Böhm, Lear, Fischer-Dieskau

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2006-09-12

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7; Lulu, opera; Lulu-Suite, 5 symphonic pieces from the opera for soprano & orchestra ("Lulu-Symphonie")
Performers: Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Clam, Leopold; Dicks, William Walther; Driscoll, Loren; Feldhoff, Gerd; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Grobe, Donald; Johnson, Patricia [vocals]; Koffmane, Rober...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus; Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra

Though initially believed to be very risky undertakings, these classic recordings of Wozzeck and Lulu and have been staples in Deutsche Grammophon's catalogue ever since...continue...

Verboten und verbannt

1 CD / Orfeo / 2006-08-08

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song; Altdeutsches Frühlingslied ("Der trübe Winter ist vorbei"), song for voice & piano, Op. 86/6; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Komm du schönes Fischermädche...
Performers: Hampson, Thomas; Rieger, Wolfram

Opera in English - Berg: Lulu / Daniel, Saffer, Perry, et al

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-03-21

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu, opera
Performers: Begley, Roger; Burford, Anna; Danby, Graeme; Graham-Hall, John; Harris, Moira; Hayward, Robert; Howell, Gwynne; Kale, Stuart [Tenor Vocal]; Mitcher, Claire; Napier-Burrows, Paul; Oke, Alan; Parry, Su...
Conductors: Daniel, Paul

"For listeners who don't understand German, the complicated, often mysterious goings-on in this work (it's based on two plays by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind,...continue...

Berg: Wozzeck / Böhm, Evans, Silja, Uhl, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2005-11-15

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7
Performers: Driscoll, Laurent; Evans, Geraint [Baritone]; Hirte, Klaus; Jahn, Gertrude; Kelemen, Zoltan; Kraemmer, Hans; Melchert, Helmut; Ree, Jan Van; Silja, Anja; Uhl, Fritz
Conductors: Böhm, Karl

"Geraint Evan's Wozzeck is a powerful, tragic presence... Balancing clarity and madness, power and impotence, nobility and crudeness, it is one of the great portrayals...continue...

Alban Berg Collection / Barenboim, Behrens, Mutter, Kremer

8 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2004-03-09

Works: Alban Berg: Pieces (3) for orchestra, Op. 6; Lyric Suite, for orchestra (arr. from Nos.2-4 of string quartet version); Concerto for Violin; Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin and 13 Winds; Sonata for...
Performers: Banse, Juliane; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Bastin, Jules; Behrens, Hildegard; Blankenheim, Toni; Boese, Ursula; Doukan, Pierre; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Forsberg, Bengt; Gonda, Anna; Gru...
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio; Levine, James; Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Ensemble InterContemporain; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Opera in English - Berg: Wozzeck / Daniel, Shore, et al

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-05-20

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7
Performers: Barstow, Josephine; Bayley, Clive; Bronder, Peter; Flanagan, Leslie John; Graham-Hall, John; Kale, Stuart [Tenor Vocal]; Paterson, Iain; Rigby, Jean; Shore, Andrew; Woodrow, Alan
Conductors: Daniel, Paul
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

"[This] recording manages to create the impression of theatre conditions with the added benefit of presenting a more natural balance between singers and orchestra than...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...

Berg: Lulu / Maderna, Steingruber, Rehfuss, Zareska, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2002-03-05

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu, opera
Performers: Colombo, Scipio; Delorko, Ratko; Frascati, Tommaso; Loomis, James; Lopatto, Dimitri; Rehfuss, Heinz; Ribacchi, Luisa; Ruesche, Kurt; Steingruber, Ilona; Zareska, Eugenia
Conductors: Maderna, Bruno
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Rome

Berg died before completing his second opera (after Wozzeck), and for decades it was performed with the story of the third act mimed to music...continue...

Berg: Lulu / Boulez, Stratas, Minton, Schwarz, et al

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2001-09-11

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu, opera
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Doukan, Pierre; Mazura, Franz; Minton, Yvonne [Soprano Vocals]; Nienstedt, Gerd; Pampuch, Helmut; Pludermacher, Georges [Piano]; Riegel, Kenneth; Schwarz, Hanna; Stratas, Teresa; T...
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: Paris Opéra Orchestra

Berg: Wozzeck / Böhm, Evans, SIlja, Uhl, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2001-03-06

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7
Performers: Driscoll, Laurent; Evans, Geraint [Baritone]; Hirte, Klaus; Jahn, Gertrude; Kelemen, Zoltan; Kraemmer, Hans; Melchert, Helmut; Ree, Jan Van; Silja, Anja; Uhl, Fritz
Conductors: Böhm, Karl

Wozzeck is considered by many the greatest 20th-century opera, and this great performance is the first for the Opera d'Oro catalog. It is also the...continue...

Berg: Lulu / Schirmer, Hauman, Danish National RSO

3 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-07-15

Works: Alban Berg: Lulu, opera
Performers: Adam, Theo; Byriel, Sten; Cold, Ulrik; Elmark, Susanne; Hauman, Constance; Henning-Jensen, Gert; Hoffmeyer, Stig; Jaffe, Monte; Juon, Julia; Larsen, Morten Frank; Ranada, Helene; Straka, Peter; Viklu...
Conductors: Schirmer, Ulf
Ensemble: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Berg: Wozzeck / Abbado, Grundheber, Behrens, Langridge et al

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1989-02-13

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7
Performers: Behrens, Hildegard; Gonda, Anna; Grundheber, Franz; Haugland, Aage; Jelosits, Peter; Kamenik, Werner; Langridge, Philip; Lehner, Viktoria; Maly, Alexander; Raffeiner, Walter; Sramek, Alfred; Zednik, ...
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Orchestra

"...one is aware that this is a genuine performance, not a studio replica of one...I would choose Abbado almost unhesitatingly." -Gramophone...continue...