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ie ph oy ema Produced by Thomas Z. Shepard M2 : 30852 Columbia : MASTERWORKS Previously released as CBS Records 32 21 0002. PIERRE BOULEZ conducts ALBAN BERG’S “WOZZECk” “This new recording of ‘Wozzeck’ comes as near to an ideal realisation of WINNER GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE this finest opera of our century as could be wished for. The fact that the conductor is Pierre Boulez is of course crucial, but his cast, the Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera and the CBS recording engineers are also ‘‘He seems to take us into Berg’s creative mind.” equal to the enormous challenge.” —Records and Recording —The Gramophone “In the CBS set we are moved by precision, vivid articulation of the score, exact rhythms, and Boulez’s unerring sense of the ‘meaning’ of a particular INTERNATIONAL PRAISE. GREETS ALBAN BERG’S passage—his revelation of why the composer set it down in the way he did. Z0th-CENTURY MASTERPIECE: He defines the forms. He handles the cross references, the motifs, the “MUSIC DRAMA OF ALMOST OVERWHELMING EMOTIONAL orchestral colours boldly and emphatically; he seems to take us into» POWER.” —Newsweek, Emily Coleman Berg’s creative mind.” —The Gramophone “ONE OF THE GREAT, ORIGINAL WORKS OF OUR TIME.” ABOUT “WOZZECK” —The New York Times, Howard ‘Taubman “The opera’s hero, Franz Wozzeck, is a cloddish German soldier haunted by nameless terrors, persecuted by everybody around him... He is ridiculed by his Captain, who seems to stand for the bluster of petty militarism. “ONE OF THE REMARKABLE OPERATIC INTERPRETATIONS He is used as a guinea pig by a doctor, a sadistic, fanatical embodiment of OF OUR GENERATION.” —The London Times science.
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