Berg / Iversen / Frankfurt - Wozzeck - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The sincerity and at the same time emotionality of Anton Bruckner's musical thoughts create an inimitable magnetism that makes one InchforgetInch time in the very best sense of the word. Anyone who wants to approach Bruckner only analytically will find their mind boggled, especially at the first encounter. His great power is a certain Inchtranscendental charmInch that is common to all his symphonies. In 2024, the music world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth on September 4, 1824. On this occasion, the Bamberg Symphony - an orchestra well-versed in the interpretation of Bruckner's symphonic cosmos - and their music director Jakub Hrusa present a new recording of the composer's last and unfinished symphony, his Ninth. On 30 November 1894, Bruckner completed the third movement of his Ninth symphony, which, like all of it's predecessors, was laid out in four movements. Work on the finale began on 24 May 1895, around 16 months before his death. He composed the first 172 bars of the movement in full, after which the score is at least partially orchestrated for a further 200 bars. Although a playable version of the finale of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 is now available, in practical life the three-movement torso has become the norm. It seems as if the non-completion paradoxically claims it's place. The Austrian critic and musicologist Walter Weidringer wrote that the Ninth Inchmay be taken as one of those examples from music history that prove that even fragments can display a degree of completion which no longer seems capable of improvement.Inch A production of Accentus Music in co-production with BR-KLASSIK. Also available Bruckner 4 - The three versions. Bamberg Symphony, Jakub Hrusa (ACC30533, 4 CDs)

Based on real events and playwright Georg Bu¨chner's starkly vehement text, Alban Berg's tragic opera Wozzeck is an epoch-making work, in stark contrast to the previous high romantic ideals of the genre, that led Schoenberg to exclaim Inchnow that's what I call an opera!Inch Immensely powerful and heartbreakingly moving as a drama, Wozzeck explores the victimisation, despair and madness of a central character who has no place in society, it's deeply humane message and sublimely innovative score firmly establishing it as a 20th-century masterpiece.

Berg / Musikkollegium Winterthur / Cunz / Tauran - 3 Fragments from Wozzeck Op. 7 / 3 Orchestral [SUPER-AUDIO CD] Hybrid SACD date 10/30/2015