Of course, you are talking about late Berg. His Sieben fruhe lieder are
_very_ vocal. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I happened to catch
"Judgement at Nuremberg" on television and I thought "What a great opera
the courtroom scenes would make, especially in the musical language of
early Alban Berg!" Jon Vickers in the Spencer Tracy role, Rene Pape in
the Burt Lancaster role, Fritz Wunderlich in the Maximillian Schell role,
Sherrill Milnes in the Richard Widmark role, Ian Bostridge in the Montgomery
Clift role, and Anne Sofie von Otter in the Judy Garland role. Waddya think?
Mark Montgomery
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Karen Mercedes wrote:
> And then there are the modern composers who are totally voice-hostile.
> Like Michael Tippett and Alban Berg. What the hell were they thinking?
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