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La Damnation de Faust

(fr)

1989

2h13m

La Damnation de Faust

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Overview: 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

Release date: January 1, 1989

Countries of origin: United Kingdom,

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Anne Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter

as Marguerite (mez...

Keith Lewis

Keith Lewis

as Faust (tenor)

José van Dam

José van Dam

as Mephistopheles ...

Peter Rose

Peter Rose

as Brander (basso)

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