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Wozzeck (Three Fragments)
Composer: Alban Berg
Performers: ±«Óãtv Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Claire Booth (Soprano)
Conductor: Simone Young
Date of broadcast: 10 January 2018
Berg's opera is a terrifying vision of repression and reaction. The harshness of the music exactly reflects the brutality of the story: the cruel treatment of a returned soldier - Wozzeck - by his superiors and, as a consequence, his violent murder of his wife. Not for the faint-hearted.
Composer: Alban Berg
Performers: ±«Óãtv Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Claire Booth (Soprano)
Conductor: Simone Young
Recording date: 01 November 2017
Date of broadcast: 10 January 2018
