Philharmonia Orchestra: Salonen conducts in New York

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Salonen conducts in New York

Avery Fisher Hall, New York
Mon 19 Nov 2012 8:00pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen

conductor

Simon Keenlyside

Wozzeck

Angela Denoke

Marie

Hubert Francis

The Drum Major

Joshua Ellicott

Andres

Peter Hoare

The Captain

Tijl Faveyts

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Henry Waddington

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Eddie Wade

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Harry Nicoll

The Idiot

Anna Burford	Margret
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Berg	Wozzeck (concert performance)

When Berg saw the 1914 premiere of Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck, the composer knew he had found the inspiration for his first opera. Influenced greatly by the horrors of the First World War, Wozzeck is a profound piece that expresses, with cinematic immediacy, the torment of a simple soldier brutalised by a repressive system. With its dissonant score, complex structure and a mounting atmosphere of oppressiveness, this is undoubtedly Berg’s most expressionist work but one which cannot fail to move the listener, stirred by the plight of the opera’s eponymous hero.

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