Berg: Lulu; Wozzeck

Track Listings
1. 1. Akt, 1. Szene- Langsam, Wozzeck, Langsam!    
2. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel    
3. 2. Szene- Du, Der Platz Ist Verflucht!    
4. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel Und Beginnende MilitÄRmusik Im Hintergrund    
5. 3. Szene- Tschin Bum ! HÖRst Bub- Da Kommen Sie!    
6. Verwandlung. Orchester-ÜBerleitung    
7. 4. Szene- Was Erleb' Ich, Wozzeck-    
8. Verwandlung. Orchester-Einleitung    
9. 5. Szene- Geh Einmal Vor Dich Hin    
10. 2. Akt- Orchester-Einleitung. 1. Szene- Was Die Steine GlÄNzen!    
11. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel    
12. 2. Szene- Wohin So Eilig, Geehrtester Herr Sargnagel-    
13. Verwandlung. ÜBerleitende Takte U. Kammerorchester-Einleitung. 3. Szene- Guten Tag, Franz - Ich Seh    
14. Verwandlung. ÜBerleitende Takte Und Orchester-Vorspiel (LÄNdler)    
15. 4. Szene- Ich Hab' Ein Hemdlein An, Das Ist Nicht Mein    
16. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel (Walzer)    
17. 5. Szene- Oh! Oh! Andres! Ich Kann Nicht Schlafen    
18. 3. Akt, 1. Szene- Und Ist Kein Betrug In Seinem Munde Erfunden Worden    
19. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel    
20. 2. Szene- Dort Links Geht's In Die Stadt    
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Berg: Lulu; Wozzeck, Music, Evelyn Lear, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Alban Berg, Karl Böhm, Orchester des Deutschen Opernhauses Berlin, Alice Oelke, Barbara Scherler, Donald Grobe, Ernst Krukowski, Fritz Wunderlich, Gerd Feldhoff, Gerhard Stolze, Helmut Melchert, Josef Greindl, Karl Christian Kohn, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Kurt Böhme, Leopold Clam, Loren Driscoll, Martin Vantin, Patricia Johnson, Robert Koffmane, William Walther Dicks, Classical, Classical Music, German/Austrian 20th/21st Century Opera, Opera, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Solo Voice(s) and Orchestra, Vocal
Berg: Lulu; Wozzeck
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • The worst Lulu ever
  • Two masterworks from the years between the wars in a recording from the sixties
  • first of all you have to understand a role
  • This is an amazing opera
  • El mejor Wozzeck en la discografía
 Berg: Lulu; Wozzeck
Karl Christian Kohn , Karl-Ernst Mercker , Kurt Böhme , Leopold Clam , Loren Driscoll , Martin Vantin , Patricia Johnson , Robert Koffmane , and William Walther Dicks
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ASIN: B00000E53D
Release Date: 2003-04-08

Tracks:

  1. 1. Akt, 1. Szene- Langsam, Wozzeck, Langsam!
  2. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel
  3. 2. Szene- Du, Der Platz Ist Verflucht!
  4. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel Und Beginnende Militmusik Im Hintergrund
  5. 3. Szene- Tschin Bum ! Hst Bub- Da Kommen Sie!
  6. Verwandlung. Orchester-erleitung
  7. 4. Szene- Was Erleb' Ich, Wozzeck-
  8. Verwandlung. Orchester-Einleitung
  9. 5. Szene- Geh Einmal Vor Dich Hin
  10. 2. Akt- Orchester-Einleitung. 1. Szene- Was Die Steine Glzen!
  11. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel
  12. 2. Szene- Wohin So Eilig, Geehrtester Herr Sargnagel-
  13. Verwandlung. erleitende Takte U. Kammerorchester-Einleitung. 3. Szene- Guten Tag, Franz - Ich Seh
  14. Verwandlung. erleitende Takte Und Orchester-Vorspiel (Ldler)
  15. 4. Szene- Ich Hab' Ein Hemdlein An, Das Ist Nicht Mein
  16. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel (Walzer)
  17. 5. Szene- Oh! Oh! Andres! Ich Kann Nicht Schlafen
  18. 3. Akt, 1. Szene- Und Ist Kein Betrug In Seinem Munde Erfunden Worden
  19. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel
  20. 2. Szene- Dort Links Geht's In Die Stadt
  21. Wozzeck- 3. Akt.- Verwandlung. Orchester-erleitung (H) [B]
  22. 3. Szene- -Tantzt Alle; Tanzt Nur Zu !-
  23. Verwandlung. Orchester-Nachspiel. 4. Szene- -Das Messer- Wo Ist Das Messer--
  24. Verwandlung. Orchester-Epilog- Invention er Eine Tonart (D-Moll)
  25. 5. Szene- -Ringel, Ringel, Rosenkranz, Ringelreih'n!-
  26. Lulu- Prolog. -Hereinspaziert In Die Menagerie-
  27. 1. Akt, 1. Szene- -Darf Ich Eintreten-- - -Mein Sohn!-
  28. Introduktion (Zum Canon). -Gnige Frau Frau Medizinalrat -; Canon- -Sie Bekommen Mich Noch Lange N

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars The worst Lulu ever.......2007-01-20

Evelyn Lear could make a fine Marina Mnsek for Boris, his voice is not for modern opera.

4 out of 5 stars Two masterworks from the years between the wars in a recording from the sixties.......2005-10-17

I remember when Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg were spoken of as the New Viennese School and compared to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Seriously. From our present standpoint, it is impossible to understand how much influence these three composers had in the mid-twentieth century. These two operas continue to be performed and through them Berg has become the most widely remembered of the three.

Scholars have analyzed these works extremely closely and have discovered all kinds of symbolic patterns in the notes. For example, the music occurring around Marie as she dies seems rather chaotic, yet one scholar has shown that the music consists of ten fragments of music heard from and around her earlier in the opera. So, her life is passing before her as she dies.

There is always a debate about how much of this deep meaning one can actually hear and it does vary for each listener. This kind of discussion goes on in all the arts, but is particularly so in music because it is the most abstract of the arts. How abstract and how removed from the surface can any "meaning" be and still be heard? This was a discussion we had many times in music school and I have met no more than a very few who convinced me they could actually hear this deeply (and this is more than recognizing a given row or its transformation or hearing the most fleeting tonalities in atonal works).

For me, just as some of the ultra late romantic become somewhat over composed with a level of detail that seems to be there for its own sake, some of this minutiae is like going to a restaurant for a meal and being given an essay about a photograph of a painting of a pork chop. It may be interesting, informative, and even beautiful, but you still leave hungry.

"Wozzeck" and "Lulu" are powerful and affecting works. They do sound much more like highly chromatic, but tonal works than the abstractions of Webern. "Lulu" is the more severe and, well, bleak of the two. I have heard more than a few praise these works for telling the truth about human life and getting to the true center of the human heart. To me, they seem more like artworks that were above all anti-bourgeois and seem proud of that stance. They seem to invoke not only the materialist views of the world of Marx, but also of Freud, and other now long forgotten apostles of deterministic thought. Is it possible to still see these works eighty years on as modern? They are as much prisoners of their time as are any other opera and less transcendent than I expect great works of art to be.

Franz Wozzeck is a powerless man who has a child out of wedlock with a woman named Marie. He subjects himself to crackpot scientific experiments with a Dr. Schoen for a bit of extra money for Marie and their son. Marie feels oppressed by the social stigma of being an unwed mother, but also has eyes for other men. She is particularly attracted to a Drum Major who looks so wonderfully masculine, but is really a mere surface of a person. She has an affair with the Drum Major, which Wozzeck discovers. Since Wozzeck is already teetering on the edge of sanity from his impotence and the experiments, he falls off and stabs Marie after she tells him that she would rather be stabbed than beaten. He leaves her body and tosses the knife in a pond. Later, crazed even more deeply by guilt, he goes into the pond after the knife and drowns. The last moment of the play involves Marie's and Wozzeck's orphan at play and running off the stage oblivious that he is alone in the world.

So, is this the true heart of us all? Is that last moment poignant, sharp irony on the human condition, or mere kitsch? I mean, dealing with the world view of this drama might benefit from as much detachment and irony as you can bring to it.

"Lulu" is even harsher. She is married to a professor of medicine who has a heart attack when he sees her with a painter he has commissioned to paint her portrait. She marries the painter at the urging of another doctor, who is engaged to another, with whom Lulu has had a long term love affair (such as love is in this work). Finally, the doctor understands that the painter really is blind to Lulu's true nature and tells him of her past. He kills himself. Under threat the doctor marries Lulu. She then takes up with a Countess who is enamored of her. Lulu ends up killing him with a revolver he has given her. She is arrested and sentenced to prison.

However, the countess arranges to take her place in prison to aid Lulu's escape. The Countess, the doctor's son, and an athlete help her escape abroad. Lulu then ends up with a wealthy man who ends up being a pimp and sells her to Cairo.

While the opera was incomplete at Berg's early death at fifty, the outline and sketch let us know that she is living in London with the doctor's son and the athlete. When the Countess arrives without money, Lulu is reduced to becoming a streetwalker. She goes through a series of clients who are the musical reincarnations of her various husbands. One of them kills the doctor's son, and the last kills both Lulu and the Countess, since he is Jack the Ripper (!).

The music is powerful and worth knowing because it is so personal to Berg and works its magic quite well. However, I have been at a symphonic concert when the Lulu Suite has been played and seem people get up and leave because they find it so harsh and intense.

Berg was indeed a major composer of the twentieth century. He cannot be merely dismissed. If you want to understand the serious art of that century you must come to terms with these works. You don't have to love them, but you cheat yourself if you don't know them at least a bit. Certainly, the morality of these operas, shocking in their time, is roughly equal to the "normal" behavior in any two episodes of "Friends" and "Law and Order". So, it must be the music that continues to affect people so strongly.

These recordings by Karl Böhm are masterfully done with great sound and solid singing. Some would prefer a different style of Sprechstimme (the half-singing) done here, but I find it appropriately chilling with the singing voice sliding around above the simultaneously sounding singing voice. I have no idea how it is done, but it sounds wonderfully insane.

2 out of 5 stars first of all you have to understand a role.......2004-11-12

...before singing it. Evelyn Lear doesn't. She is a wonderful Marina Mintsek in Boris Godounov but as well as she is really good for classical roles, she doesn't fit for Lulu. Berg is music, not disorder, Teresa Stratas understood this and moreover Christina Scheffer!

The worst version you can choose if you really "UNDERSTAND" Berg. Good singers for the wrong repertoire.

Martin Pitchon
Canada

5 out of 5 stars This is an amazing opera.......2003-11-23

(This review only applies to "Lulu")

As you know, Alban Berg couldn't finished this opera, the 1-297 measures of the 3rd Act was being finished, but later, Berg, was written last (approx.) 700 measures without orchestration (only with a Piano part and libretto).

In 1970's, Friedrich Cerha was orchestrated this measures and with this version, complete Three Acts was performed in Paris Opera, conducted by Pierre Boulez, in 1979. (The recording of this performance is available on DG Classics)

But, this performance is better than the version of Boulez's. (I have listened both of two recordings). And, even so, this is a live recording from Berlin, Deutsche Oper, in 1968. So, there isn't 3rd Act, instead of this, (with the same affairs) they were performed the last movements of Lulu-Suite (Symphonic Pieces from Opera). These movements are, 4th movement - Variations on Wedekind's Theme for Lute-, and 5th movement - The Last Scene (Jack the Ripper kills Lulu and Countess Geschwitz)...Even so, Berg was wanted this movements to be perform (to think that, if he can't finish the 3rd Act).

The soloists are excellent, especially Evelyn Lear (as Lulu), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (as Dr. Schön), Loren Driscoll (as Painter) and Donald Grobe (as Alwa). It is an interesting condition that, actually Karl Böhm isn't a conductor of 20th Century Music. We know with his historic Mozart and R. Strauss recordings. But in this set, he is amazing in both of Wozzeck and Lulu.

Another an interesting condition that, in "Wozzeck", the composer was used a large ensemble (ex. A quadruple orchestra, plus choir) and this is an atonal opera, isn't a 12-tone music at all. In "Lulu", Berg was used a little small ensemble than in Wozzeck (tripled orchestra, no choir), but this is a full 12-tone music. So, this opera is more difficult to reading the partition (of opera) or listen this music with understands than Wozzeck (it is interesting, but, Berg was written more difficult music with a little small ensemble and his first opera "Wozzeck" is more easy to understand or reading the partition but this is scored for large ensemble). Because, Berg was used 12-tone system at all, so, perhaps, this is more difficult to listen, but if you listen more and more, you will enjoy (!) with this music.

And there is a very amazing music in this opera: Interlude - Film Music (in 2nd Act between 1st and 2nd Scenes). In last minutes of 1st Scene, Lulu kills Dr. Schön and she arrests by police with help of Alwa (Doctor's Son). With a fast fall of curtain, Interlude - Film Music starts and there is a show that a (black-white, without colouring and without sound) short film tells, that Lulu's fortune in one year. Because of subject of film, in the music, starts and moves forwards, than music reaches to a centre (of music) and than, the music moves backwards! (This music was used once again in Lulu-Suite as the 1st movement of suite)...

Best tracks: Act 1
No. 2 Canon, No. 4 Melodram - The Death of Professor, No. 5 Arioso of The Painter (this is a very mysterious music), No. 10 Monoritmica (The Rhythm of Death, this rhythm was used in whole opera, in every passages!), No. 12 (Sonata Development)

Act 2:
No. 6 and 7 (Lulu kills Dr. Schon and arrests), No. 8 Film Music (of course!)

Instead of Act 3 (from Lulu-Suite): Variations (because of the Third act wasn't be found yet) and Adagio (Lulu, Countess Geschwitz...Jack the Ripper!)

Highly recommended for any Alban Berg, 20th Century Music or opera admirers.

5 out of 5 stars El mejor Wozzeck en la discografía.......2003-09-28

Esta versión dirigida por Karl Böhm y producida por Otto Gerdes es en mi opinión la mejor que existe en el mercado. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau canta un Wozzeck soberbio. Aún sin verlo, sólo con escucharlo puede uno imaginarlo en el escenario. Evelyn Lear canta una Marie excelente, al igual que Fritz Wunderlich en su interpretación de Andrés. Caso aparte merece el gran Gerhard Stolze en su interpretación del capitán,en mi opinión la mejor que existe en la discografía, siendo una burda copia de la misma la realizada por Heinz Zednik en la versión de Claudio Abbado.
Karl Böhm realiza una interpretación llena de detalles y el sonido de DG es en ésta grabación digno de mencionarse, con un buen balance y sin la tendencia a los agudos típico de las grabaciones de DG.
Esta grabación es el punto de referencia para las otras que existen y ni la versión de Abbado ni Dohnanyi estan a su altura.
Este set de CDs consta de dos óperas, la ya comentada Wozzeck y Lulú en su versión original incompleta con sólo los dos primeros actos y la suite de Lulú como complemento, pero a pesar de ser una buena interpretación, en esta última ópera recomiendo la versión de Boulez en DG, con la reconstrucción del tercer acto por Friedrich Cerha y con Teresa Stratas como protagonista principal.
Alban Berg Collection / Various (Coll)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Fabulous bargain, but Berg needs texts!
  • Superb Berg performances ... good value!
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  • Best Set; Good Price...
  • Excellent collection
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ASIN: B0000B09Z4
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Fabulous bargain, but Berg needs texts!.......2006-02-05

This is a great set for anyone who wishes to be immersed in Alban Berg's lurid, hothouse, hallucinogenic world. Both performances and sound quality are mostly excellent: No record company has ever made as great a commitment to Berg as Deutsche Grammophon. Based on the performances alone, this deserves six stars.

But the budget price comes with a catch: No texts or librettos. (There are at least scene synopses for "Wozzeck" and "Lulu.") With some composers, this wouldn't be a serious problem, but Berg was one of the greatest control freaks in music history. Without knowing exactly where each word is placed, listeners who don't understand German will miss an important facet of this intricately multi-layered music.

5 out of 5 stars Superb Berg performances ... good value!.......2006-01-05

This might be the best box set I own. First of all you get what is most likely the best available versions of the Violin Concerto,Wozzeck,Lulu (3 act ver.),Lulu suite,7 Early Songs with van Otter,Der Wein and much more. The only real sub-par performance on it is the Piano Sonata op1 with Barenboim which can be found in many other recordings for a decent price. So, if you are new to Berg and you buy this, you are getting really an outstanding set of recordings which are top of the heap with great conductors and orchestras.

5 out of 5 stars Real Estate Saver.......2004-10-04

This little box is an elegant, SPACE-SAVING means of acquiring classic performances (all of them stellar) from the DG catalog of Berg's major works, including two by my adored Lasalle Quartet that I believe have recently gone OOP. The set contains eight CD's housed in somewhat hard-to-remove cardboard sleeves that clearly identify the contents therein, and includes a booklet which, despite not containing lyrics for any of the vocal works, is very informative. The lack of libretti is possibly less an issue in the case of Wozzeck; chances are that listeners already own at least one other recording and so can refer to its libretto. Lulu, however, is more problematic because more listeners probably opt to purchase this "complete/d" performance over all others and may even be purchasing this set on that basis.
Not being particularly fond of lieder in general, I feel less qualified to make an educated call as to who might own which recordings of the songs other than to remark that I already own this recording of Op. 2 (which, of course includes the lyrics). In fact, as is the case with a previous reviewer, I already own a number of recordings from this set (which I received as a gift). No matter, it's still worth owning, and I agree with yet another reviewer's suggestion to grab it while it's available. True, one might prefer different performances here or there but honestly, this affords the best way of acquiring everything in one fell swoop, and there's not a clinker in the whole set.
In that vein, I might suggest that fans of the VC seek out Szeryng's performance with Kubelik, now available remastered on DG Eloquence at budget price. It's much less emotional than Mutter's beautiful reading but I find this proves an enhancement rather than a detraction; I also feel that Kubelik, possibly due to his Austro-Hungarian upbringing, ultimately has a better grasp of this repertoire than Levine (although I love his OOP Lulu Suite/Wozzeck excerpts on Sony and Mahler 4 on RCA).

5 out of 5 stars Best Set; Good Price..........2004-05-11

This is a really nice set at a good price. It features all DG's Berg recordings--which really are about the best around. This "Collectors' Edition" is certain to disappear soon and increase in value.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent collection.......2004-04-06

This is a must have for any collectors, 20th Century Music admirers.

This is 8-CD set and includes the complete works of Berg on acclaimed performances.

Especially, the stars of this set (for me):
Wozzeck (Hildegard Behrens, Wiener Philharmoniker, Abbado)

Lulu, complete opera in 3 act (Teresa Stratas, Franz Mazura, Yvonne Minton, Jules Bastin, Robert Tear, Opera National de Paris, Pierre Boulez!!)

Lulu-Suite (London SO, Abbado)

Three Pieces for Orchestra (London SO, Abbado)

Piano Sonata (Daniel Barenboim)

Alban Berg's musical language is difficult to understand (at least in first listening), but when listening more times, we notice that, actually in his music, there is a very mystic or impressive and lyric atmosphere. So, I think that he is a "Romantic" modern. Just, he expressed these lyric atmospheres with realist and striking language. Still, he was used 12-tone system, but he was not forget tonality and used the both styles (even so he used jazz passages, especially in Lulu). In other words: Berg is one of the most famous and important composers and he impressed the composers came after him (ex. Shostakovich, Britten, Henze)

This is an essential collection and highly recommended.
Berg: Lulu Suite - Wozzeck Three Excerpts / Levine, The MET Orchestra
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  • A gorgeously performed sampler of Berg's best
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ASIN: B00000296E
Release Date: 1996-01-09

Tracks:

  1. Three Fragments From 'Wozzeck' (1924): I. (I. Akt, 2. und 3. Szene) Langsam
  2. Three Fragments From 'Wozzeck' (1924): II. (III. Akt, 1. Szene) Thema. Grave - Variationen 1-7 - Fuge
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  6. Three Orchestral Pieces Op. 6 (1914-15): III. March. Massiges Marschtempo
  7. Lulu-Suite (1934) - Symphonic Pieces From The Opera 'Lulu': Rondo. Andante (Introduzione) - Hymne. Sostenuto
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  9. Lulu-Suite (1934) - Symphonic Pieces From The Opera 'Lulu': Lied der Lulu. Comodo
  10. Lulu-Suite (1934) - Symphonic Pieces From The Opera 'Lulu': Variationen. Moderato (Grandioso - Grazioso - Funebre - Affetuoso - Thema)
  11. Lulu-Suite (1934) - Symphonic Pieces From The Opera 'Lulu': Adagio. Sostenuto - Lento - Grave

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Berg's "Three Pieces" take the most nightmarish sections of Mahler's Sixth Symphony as their starting point and explore the outermost bound of musical terror. They are not easy to listen to by any means, but if you're a fan of horror movie soundtracks, then you'll find this an experience not to be missed. None of the remaining music on this disc is quite so frightening, but it also won't exactly leave you humming the tunes. Berg takes some work, but it's such good music nevertheless that you may find it worth your time. James Levine knows and loves these pieces, and he has an orchestra that plays them with the confidence born of long familiarity. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A gorgeously performed sampler of Berg's best.......2002-04-26

For Berg lovers this is an extraordinary recording. For those who remain unconvinced of his talent -- and you know who you are -- this disc might change your mind. Never have these pieces sounded so lyrical and Richard Strauss-ian, and frankly, just plain beautiful. The sonorities and textures Levine elicits from this amazing orchestra are ravishing, and the entire project is recorded with clarity that brings out the precision of Berg's writing.

In recent years, Levine has received justifiable acclaim for his live performances of both "Wozzeck" and "Lulu," and this disc offers a glorious glimpse of each one, not to mention an outstanding version of Berg's powerful "Three Pieces for Orchestra." The latter is almost frightening, with Levine hunting down every last blazing color in the score.

Ms. Fleming is magnificent here. Surely I am not the only music-lover who would be delighted if she were to tackle Marie in "Wozzeck" or the title character in "Lulu." Fleming negotiates the ferociously difficult "Lied der Lulu" effortlessly, and reaches a thrilling climax as the vocal line ascends into the stratosphere.

The great Met Orchestra makes a sensuous, crystalline partner for Fleming's powerful sound. We can only imagine the pleasures that complete recordings of these operas might offer, with the combination of Levine's vision and these artists working at this kind of white-hot level. In any case, for now we will have to be satisfied with this stunning preview.
Berg: Lyric Suite; Wozzeck (Fragments); Lulu Suite
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    		Berg: Lyric Suite; Wozzeck (Fragments); Lulu Suite
    Marc , Sinopoli , and Staatskapelle Dresden
    Manufacturer: Elatus
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00006L9SO
    Release Date: 2006-05-17

    Tracks:

    1. Lyric Suite - Andante Amoroso
    2. Lyric Suite - Allegro Misterioso - Trio Estatico
    3. Lyric Suite - Adagio Appassionato
    4. Wozzeck Fragments - I(Act I, Scenes 2 & 3)
    5. Wozzeck Fragments - Ii(Act Iii, Scene 1)
    6. Wozzeck Fragments - Iii(Act Iii, Scenes 4 & %)
    7. Lulu Suite
    Alban Berg/Anton Webern: Orchestral Pieces
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      		Alban Berg/Anton Webern: Orchestral Pieces

      Manufacturer: Berlin Classics
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      QuartetsQuartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
      All Works by BergAll Works by Berg | Berg, Alban | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
      All Works by WebernAll Works by Webern | Webern, Anton von | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
      General ModernGeneral Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
      General ContemporaryGeneral Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      Modern & 20th CenturyModern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      GermanGerman | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B0000035RH
      Release Date: 1995-05-16

      Tracks:

      1. Wozzeck, Op.7: I. Act I, Scene 2-3
      2. Wozzeck, Op.7: II. Act III, Scene 1
      3. Wozzeck, Op.7: III. Act III, Scene 4-5
      4. Lulu, Symphonic Pieces: Adagio
      5. Passacaglia Op.1
      6. Five Movts Op.5: I. Heftig Bewegt, Tempo I
      7. Five Movts Op.5: II. Sehr Langsam
      8. Five Movts Op.5: III. Sehr Lebhaft
      9. Five Movts Op.5: IV. Sehr Langsam
      10. Five Movts Op.5: V. In Zarter Bewegung
      11. Six Pieces Op.6: I. Langsam
      12. Six Pieces Op.6: II. Bewegt
      13. Six Pieces Op.6: III. Massig
      14. Six Pieces Op.6: IV. Sehr Massig
      15. Six Pieces Op.6: V. Sehr Langsam
      16. Six Pieces Op.6: VI. Langsam
      17. Five Pieces Op.10: I. Sehr Ruhig Und Zart
      18. Five Pieces Op.10: II. Lebhaft Und Zart Bewegt
      19. Five Pieces Op.10: III. Sehr Langsam Und Ausserst Ruhig
      20. Five Pieces Op.10: IV. Fliessend, Ausserst Zart
      21. Five Pieces Op.10: V. Sehr Fliessend
      22. Sym Op.21: I. Ruhig Schreitend
      23. Sym Op.21: II. Vars
      3 Orchestral Pieces / Wozzeck & Lulu Excerpts
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        		3 Orchestral Pieces / Wozzeck & Lulu Excerpts
        Berg , Maderna , and North German Rso
        Manufacturer: Arkadia: the 78's
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD
        ASIN: B00008EOX9
        Release Date: 1994-03-25

        Track Listings:

        1. Brain, Kell, Goossens play Schumann & Beethoven
        2. Bruchner: Missa No. 2/Psalm 150/Te Deum
        3. Carlos Surinach
        4. Carols for a New Millennium
        5. Casella: Piano Music
        6. Chopin Mazurkas
        7. Currier & Ives: Christmas Treasures
        8. Dante and the Troubadour
        9. De Profundis - Miserere - Requiem Zelenka - Il Fondamento - Dombrecht
        10. Donizetti: Lucie de Lammermoor; Natalie Dessay, Roberto Alagna [Box set]

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        No Suggestion of Silence: Music by Perry Townsend

        Let's Dance [Enhanced]

        It's My Time

        A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night & More [Original recording remastered] [Import]

        Rhythm of Love

        Sondheim Sings, Vol. 1: 1962-1972 [Cast Recording]

        Orff: Carmina Burana, scenic cantata; Ravel: Boléro

        Open on Sunday [Enhanced]

        New Music from Bowling Green, Vol. IV

        Olympia, Mar 25th, 1961/Oct 5th, 1966 [Import]

        Los Van Van

        Misma Mujer

        70's Hot Rock

        Solid State Survivor