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Andre Rieu: Live in Vienna
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This is the only commercial DVD release of Berg's Lulu in complete 3 acts. I like the performance here. Christine Schäfer is a great champion of modern music and "Lulu of our time". Her performance is outstanding, both vocally and visually. Other singers are also quite good. Andrew Davis leads London Philharmonic in a performance which does Berg's masterwork justice by brining the intricate texture of the music to life. The orchestra's playing is clear enough to follow Berg's scores easily, but the tone is warm enough to sense links to the last romantic masters, like Mahler. Graham Vick's stage direction is, for the most part, commendable and following the scripts. (There are a few regrettable departures, though.) A deserving winner of the 1997 Gramophone Award for Best Video. A short comment on the 3rd act. I personally strongly recommend 3-act performance over the 2-act truncation. Berg passed away before completing the 3rd act, but he left sufficient material, including almost complete piano score of the 3rd act, to his widow. The 3rd act was later completed by Cerha, essentially following Berg's material. Therefore, it is fair to consider the music in the third act "essentially due to Berg himself." (I personally find the music flow between the first 2 acts and the last one to be completely seamless.) The interested reader may find detailed account of this matter in Geroge Perle's (a Berg specialist) book "The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II: Lulu".------------------It might be instructive to compare this video with the only other video with complete 3 acts: Pierre Boulez's 1979 l'Opéra de Paris film, which unfortunately is only available as Japanese or Chinese edition, or as bootleg version. I personally prefer the Boulez's. With Stratas as Lulu and Patrice Chereau as director, it really shines! Boulez's conducting is predictably leaner and cooler, and the references to 12 tone music is decidedly emphasized, and romantic elements suppressed. That said, both videos are outstanding! I certainly have benefited a great deal from both outstanding performances.
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