La Damnation de Faust

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Although little appreciated in his native France for many years, Hector Berlioz now safely resides among the giants of the 19th centurys musical scene. The composers 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 Berliozs encounter with Goethe, one of the great influences -- together with Shakespeare -- on the composers 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 composers most intense and thrilling music, the work features many ballet episodes and includes Marguerites song -- one of the greatest French operatic scenes. Inbal has a fine ear for Berliozs 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 thedramatic 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.

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