The Damnation of Faust

The Damnation of Faust

1989
2h 13m
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This live recording was made at the Royal Albert Hall during one of Londons famous Promenade Concert seasons. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berliozs concert cantata. This feast of Berlioz launched Soltis farewell tour with the orchestra he had directed for twenty years and was described by The Times as the unsurpassable culmination of two decades of music-making...one that summarised all that has been most admirable about Soltis long reign in Chicago. Like reading the book by flashes of lightning was how one writer described the relationship of Berlioz to Goethe in this Dramatic Legend, his way of shaping twenty scenes selected from the story into a narrative in four parts. Though it has sometimes been staged, the works drama is to be found within the music itself, which illuminates the incidents with what the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham once called a bunch of the loveliest tunes in existence.

Status: Released

Language: FR

Production Information

Production Countries
United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
French

Quick Facts

Original Title La Damnation de Faust
Release Date January 1, 1989
Status Released
Language FR

Cast

Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter

Marguerite (mezzosoprano)

Keith Lewis
Keith Lewis

Faust (tenor)

José van Dam
José van Dam

Mephistopheles (baritono)

Peter Rose
Peter Rose

Brander (basso)

Key Crew

Rodney Greenberg
Director
Almire Gandonnière
Writer
Hector Berlioz
Writer

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