Brute force
Alban Berg’s compact yet potent oeuvre has long played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of music’s aesthetic evolution.
12 pieces since 2010 — in 2 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Vienna Philharmonic.
3 pieces as Wozzeck — stats above show all coverage for Matthias Goerne.
View allAlban Berg’s compact yet potent oeuvre has long played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of music’s aesthetic evolution.
It’s been a bitterly cold winter in NY. When it’s bitterly cold, the air is dry.
We were not at Carnegie Hall to hear superb opera singers bestow their vocalism upon Alban Berg’s Wozzeck; we are there to hear the Wiener Staatsoper’s house band work their magic upon an intricate, spooky, devastating score.
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