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The Damnation of Faust (1989)

La damnation de Faust, Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a "légende dramatique". It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846.

Género : Música

Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 13M

Director : Rodney Greenberg

Sinopsis

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.

Actores

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)

Tripulaciones

Georg Solti
Georg Solti
Conductor
Rodney Greenberg
Rodney Greenberg
Director
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
Original Music Composer
Almire Gandonnière
Almire Gandonnière
Writer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
Writer