Wozzeck Op.16 (World Premiere Recording)
Musical Tragedy in 18 Scenes an Epilogue
Cast
Endrik Wottrich (Tenor)
Gabriele Schreckenbach (Mezzo Soprano)
Roland Hermann (Baritone)
Regina Schudel (Soprano)
Reinhart Ginzel (Tenor)
Anton Scharinger (Bass)
Christianne Berggold (Mezzo Soprano)
Celina Lindsley (Soprano)
Jörg Gottschick (Bass)
Robert Wörle (Tenor)
Gerd Albrecht (Conductor)
Berlin Radio Children's Choir
Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
His opera Wozzeck (1926), after the play by Georg Büchner, appeared four months after the opera of the same title by Alban Berg and has remained in its shadow. Nevertheless its premiere in Bremen on 22 April 1926 attracted much attention at the time and marked the zenith of Gurlitt's career. Malicious gossip, claiming 'debauchery and loose living', caused him to move to Berlin in 1927 where he taught at the Charlottenburg Musikhochschule, and conducted for the Staatsoper, Krolloper, Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater and Berlin Radio.
Gurlitt's music was banned by the Nazis when they assumed power, but his presence in Berlin was tolerated as he undertook to bring his music in line with the aethetics of the Third Reich. Gurlitt was then a member of the Nazi party from May 1, 1933 until being ejected from the party by court order on May 3, 1937. The court declared (falsely as it turned out) that Gurlitt had Jewish ancestry. In order to avoid being arrested by the Gestapo, he emigrated to Japan in 1939 where he became active as an opera conductor with the Fujiwara Yoshie company and, in 1940, became Musical Director of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In these positions he presented the Japanese premieres of many works from the standard repertoire by Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. Gurlitt's attitude to the Nazi regime remained equivocal, and he was a regular guest at the German Embassy in Tokyo.[2] In 1953 he founded his own Gurlitt Opera Company in Tokyo, and in 1969 he became a professor at the Showa College of Music.
In 1955 he returned to Germany for a tour conducting his own works, but it was not a success - his idiom was judged passé. The following year he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross of the German Federal Republic's order of merit, but he ceased to compose and never returned to live in Germany, bitter at the neglect of his music in post-war Germany.
He also wrote Soldaten (1930) after the play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and Nana (1933) after the novel by Émile Zola. In the former he anticipated the operatic treatment of the same text by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, while in Nana he was taking on a subject similar to the exactly contemporary Lulu by Berg.
His opera Wozzeck (1926), after the play by Georg Büchner, appeared four months after the opera of the same title by Alban Berg and has remained in its shadow. Nevertheless its premiere in Bremen on 22 April 1926 attracted much attention at the time and marked the zenith of Gurlitt's career. Malicious gossip, claiming 'debauchery and loose living', caused him to move to Berlin in 1927 where he taught at the Charlottenburg Musikhochschule, and conducted for the Staatsoper, Krolloper, Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater and Berlin Radio.
Gurlitt's music was banned by the Nazis when they assumed power, but his presence in Berlin was tolerated as he undertook to bring his music in line with the aethetics of the Third Reich. Gurlitt was then a member of the Nazi party from May 1, 1933 until being ejected from the party by court order on May 3, 1937. The court declared (falsely as it turned out) that Gurlitt had Jewish ancestry. In order to avoid being arrested by the Gestapo, he emigrated to Japan in 1939 where he became active as an opera conductor with the Fujiwara Yoshie company and, in 1940, became Musical Director of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In these positions he presented the Japanese premieres of many works from the standard repertoire by Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. Gurlitt's attitude to the Nazi regime remained equivocal, and he was a regular guest at the German Embassy in Tokyo.[2] In 1953 he founded his own Gurlitt Opera Company in Tokyo, and in 1969 he became a professor at the Showa College of Music.
In 1955 he returned to Germany for a tour conducting his own works, but it was not a success - his idiom was judged passé. The following year he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross of the German Federal Republic's order of merit, but he ceased to compose and never returned to live in Germany, bitter at the neglect of his music in post-war Germany.
He also wrote Soldaten (1930) after the play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and Nana (1933) after the novel by Émile Zola. In the former he anticipated the operatic treatment of the same text by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, while in Nana he was taking on a subject similar to the exactly contemporary Lulu by Berg.
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