Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

• Druk: 2013
• Wykonawca: Gulyas Denes, Ewing Maria, Lloyd Robert
• Producent: Brilliant Classics
• Typ oprawy: plastikowa

Although little appreciated in his native France for many years, Hector Berlioz now safely resides among the giants of the 19th century's musical scene. The composer's vocal output is extensive and includes several operatic works; written during 1845--46, La Damnation de Faust forms the subject of this engaging 2CD release.

The work grew out of Berlioz's encounter with Goethe, one of the great influences -- together with Shakespeare -- on the composer's creativity. A hybrid composition which employs just four principal singers and a chorus, as befits a 'concert' setting, La Damnation de Faust is too theatrical to work in this guise -- and, alas, too impractical to be staged successfully. Nevertheless it remains an intensely dramatic piece: listen out for the violent orchestral outpourings of the Hungarian March as well as the 'Ride to Hell', which leads to a terrible vision of Pandemonium. Residing among the composer's most intense and thrilling music, the work features many ballet episodes and includes Marguerite's song -- one of the greatest French operatic scenes. 'Inbal has a fine ear for Berlioz's orchestration, matched by sensitive recording, so that time and again details spring into dramatic life...a distinctive and intelligent performance... No lover of the work should miss hearing it.' Gramophone, July 1991

Other information:
- Recorded in 1989, when the great Israeli conductor Eliahu Inbal spent a remarkably successful and fruitful period in Frankfurt with its orchestra, resulting in several impressive symphonic cycles, notably the legendary complete Mahler Symphonies.Apart from the great artistic value of these recordings, the special one-point recording technique used by the Denon engineers is still a marvel of natural recorded sound.
- A superb release, formerly issued on the prestigious Denon label, of the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust, written (both music and libretto) by Hector Berlioz, after the famous "Faust" of Goethe.
- Wonderful soloists: Maria Ewing, Denes Gulyás, Robert Lloyd and the young Christiane Oelze.
- Includes booklet notes on the composer and the music.

• Kategorie:
  1. Filmy i muzyka
• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 5028421943916
• EAN: 5028421943916
• Wymiary: 14.0x12.0cm
• Waga: 0.12kg
• Nośniki:

  • #1: La Damnation de Faust CD 2 (CD Audio)
    • 1. Scene 14: Trio et Choeur (05:01)
    • 2. Scene 12: Menuet des follets (06:12)
    • 3. Scene 19: Apothéose de Marguerite (03:46)
    • 4. Scene 12: Sérénade de Méphistophéles (02:10)
    • 5. Scene 12: Évocation (01:56)
    • 6. Scene 18 La course a l’abîme (03:32)
    • 7. Scene 11: Allegretto non troppo presto e dolce (J’ai peur comme une enfant) (03:10)
    • 8. Scene 9: Tambours et trompettes sonnant la retraite (01:10)
    • 9. Scene 10 Moderato (Je l’entends!) (01:05)
    • 10. Scene 17 Récitatif et chasse (03:18)
    • 11. Scene 11: Le roi de Thulé, chanson gothique (05:21)
    • 12. Scene 15 Romance (10:32)
    • 13. Scene 19: Dans le ciel (01:05)
    • 14. Scene 13: Final: Duo (05:57)
    • 15. Scene 19: Épilogue: Sur la terre (01:26)
    • 16. Scene 9: Air de Faust (05:05)
    • 17. Scene 16 Invocation a la nature (03:36)
    • 18. Scene 19: Pandaemonium (04:26)
  • #2: La Damnation de Faust CD 1 (CD Audio)
    • 1. Scene 6: Chanson de Méphistophéles (03:39)
    • 2. Scene 8: Final: Choeur d’étudiants et de soldats marchant vers la ville (05:36)
    • 3. Scene 7: Choeur de gnomes et de sylphes – Songe de Faust (06:13)
    • 4. Scene 7: Bosquets et Prairies du Bord de l’Elbe – Air de Méphistophéles (02:23)
    • 5. Scene 6: Chanson de Brander (02:10)
    • 6. Scene 6: Choeur de buveurs (02:27)
    • 7. Scene 6: Fugue sur le theme de la chanson de Brander (02:40)
    • 8. Scene 1: Plaines de Hongrie (05:25)
    • 9. Scene 3: Une autre partie de la plaine (00:53)
    • 10. Scene 4: Nord de l’Allemagne (04:40)
    • 11. Scene 6: La cave d’Auerbach a Leipzig (00:27)
    • 12. Scene 2: Rondo de paysans (03:32)
    • 13. Scene 5: Allegro moderato (O pure émotion!) (02:21)
    • 14. Scene 4: Chant de la Fete de Pâque (07:04)
    • 15. Scene 3: Marche hongroise (04:31)
    • 16. Scene 7: Ballet des sylphes (03:43)