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The Damnation of Faust (1989)

ALL 01/01/1989 (fr) Music 133 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1989
  • Production
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  • Original title
    La Damnation de Faust
  • Original language
    fr
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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.

  1. Rodney Greenberg

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Anne Sofie von Otter

    Marguerite (mezzosoprano)

  2. Keith Lewis

    Faust (tenor)

  3. José van Dam

    Mephistopheles (baritono)

  4. Peter Rose

    Brander (basso)

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Casts : 4 , Crews : 5

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The Damnation of Faust (1989) 133 Min

ALL 01/01/1989 (fr)
Music
  • Release 01/01/1989
  • Production
  • Original title La Damnation de Faust
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Rodney Greenberg

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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