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~ Hector Berlioz (Composer)
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  • Composer: Hector Berlioz
  • Audio CD (2 Oct 1986)
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Philips
  • ASIN: B00000E35N
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 184,167 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 1 - Scène 1. "Le vieil hiver a fait place au printemps"Nicolai Gedda 6:23£0.79
Listen  2. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 1 - Ronde des Paysans. "Les bergers quittent" - Scène 2. "Mais d'un éclat guerrier"Nicolai Gedda 4:21£0.79
Listen  3. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 1 - Marche hongroiseLondon Symphony Orchestra 4:54£0.79
Listen  4. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Scène 3. "Sans regrets j'ai quitté les riantes campagnes"Nicolai Gedda 5:36£0.79
Listen  5. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Chant de la fête de Pâques. "Christ vient de ressusciter!"Nicolai Gedda 5:57£0.79
Listen  6. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - "Hélas! doux chant du ciel"Nicolai Gedda 1:06£0.79
Listen  7. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Scène 4. "O pure émotion!"Nicolai Gedda 2:13£0.79
Listen  8. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Scène 5. Choeur de buveurs. "A boire encor!"Jules Bastin 2:34£0.79
Listen  9. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Chanson de Brander. "Certain rat" - Fugue sur le thème de la chanson. "Amen"Richard Van Allan 3:42£0.79
Listen10. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - "Vrai Dieu, messieurs"Jules Bastin 1:10£0.79
Listen11. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Chanson de Méphistophélès. "Une puce gentille"Jules Bastin 1:26£0.79
Listen12. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - "Assez! fuyons ces lieux"Jules Bastin 2:22£0.79
Listen13. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Scène 6. Air de Méphistophélès. "Voici des roses"Jules Bastin 2:37£0.79
Listen14. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Songe de Faust. "Dors! heureux Faust"Nicolai Gedda 6:50£0.79
Listen15. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Ballet des SylphesLondon Symphony Orchestra 2:28£0.79
Listen16. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Scène 7. "Margarita!"Nicolai Gedda 1:13£0.79
Listen17. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Choeurs de Soldats et Chanson d'Etudiants. "Villes entourées" - "Jam nox stellata velamina pandit"Nicolai Gedda 5:06£0.79
Listen18. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - (Prélude: La retraite)London Symphony Orchestra 1:07£0.79
Listen19. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Scène 8. Air de Faust. "Merci, doux crépuscule!"Nicolai Gedda 4:49£0.79


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Scène 9. "Je l'entends"Nicolai Gedda 1:02£0.79
Listen  2. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Scène 10. "Que l'air est étouffant"Josephine Veasey 3:10£0.79
Listen  3. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Le roi de Thulé (Chanson gothique). "Autrefois un roi de Thulé"Josephine Veasey 5:36£0.79
Listen  4. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Scène 11. Evocation. "Esprits des flammes inconstantes"Jules Bastin 1:57£0.79
Listen  5. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Menuet des Follets - Scène 12. "Maintenant chantons à cette belle"Jules Bastin 6:06£0.79
Listen  6. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Sérénade de Méphistophélès. "Devant la maison"Jules Bastin 2:06£0.79
Listen  7. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Scène 13. "Grands dieux!" - Trio et choeur. (Duo:) "Ange adoré"Josephine Veasey 5:45£0.79
Listen  8. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Scène 14. "Allons, il est trop tard!" - "Je connais donc enfin"Josephine Veasey 4:36£0.79
Listen  9. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Scène 15. Romance. "D'amour l'ardente flamme"Josephine Veasey 8:37Album Only
Listen10. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - "Au son des trompettes"Josephine Veasey 2:19£0.79
Listen11. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Scène 16. Invocation à la Nature. "Nature immense"Nicolai Gedda 5:36£0.79
Listen12. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Scène 17. Récitatif et Chasse. "A la voûte azurée"Nicolai Gedda 3:11£0.79
Listen13. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Scène 18. La course à l'abîme. "Dans mon choeur retentit sa voix"Nicolai Gedda 3:31£0.79
Listen14. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Scène 19. Pandaemonium. "Has! Irimiru Karabrao!" - "Tradioun marexil"Jules Bastin 4:24£0.79
Listen15. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Scène 20. Epilogue sur la terre. "Alors, l'enfer se tut"London Symphony Chorus 1:18£0.79
Listen16. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Scène 21. Le Ciel. "Laus! Laus!" - Apothéose de Marguerite. "Remonte au ciel, âme naïve"Gillian Knight 4:56£0.79

On this CD:
  1. La damnation de Faust
    Composed by Hector Berlioz
    Performed by Ambrosian Singers, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Chorus
    with Josephine Veasey, Nicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Richard Van Allan, Gillian Knight
    Conducted by Colin Davis

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5.0 out of 5 stars GOETHE DID NOT COMMENT, 19 Nov 2003
By DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews
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Colin Davis probably did as much as any musician since the war to establish Berlioz as a central musical classic. This set is the earlier of his versions of Faust. In terms of recorded tone and quality it is good, but needs a little management to be heard to best effect. Right at the start Faust may seem just a bit remote, so you will be tempted to turn up the volume, only to think better of that when the first major orchestral outburst, recorded with great fidelity, makes its impact. Similar issues of tone-manipulation continue to present themselves throughout the set, but when you have been through it once you will have worked out your solution to what is only a minor problem with modern technology. In terms of the interpretation of the work, I doubt if there has been any better since, his or anyone else’s.

Davis seems a complete natural for this extremely French music, much as Previn seems to be for English music. He understands his man through and through and finds no contradiction between the grandiose effect-maker and the lyricist who can take his place with Schubert, Weber and Brahms. For me, the crucial qualification in an interpreter of Berlioz is that he must know how to relax. This music, like Ravel’s, will gather not just power but immense power through its own idiom and in the composer’s good time, and it must not be forced in any way. Davis gets the Rakoszy march to perfection, and if that can actually be said for most conductors these days, I suspect it is in no small measure down to Davis that the standard has been set. Where vividness is called for, as in some of the more pantomimish turns by Mephistopheles, Davis gets his orchestra to respond admirably. If the result slightly suggests the version of the Devil ridiculed by C S Lewis’s Screwtape as something in red tights, I suspect that was Berlioz’s vision anyway.

Faust himself is far and away the most important vocal part. Faust here is sung by no less than Gedda, and his rendering has probably been the touchstone ever since. He is something like perfect, although I confess I was not listening, nor inclined to listen, for minutiae of his French pronunciation. In sound alone Mephistopheles is largely a singer of beautiful lyric music with a number of outbursts when the composer remembers to be diabolic, and while I can’t associate Jules Bastin with this view, if that’s what it happened to be he carries it off admirably. I have a particular liking for the steady, unexaggerated and affecting Marguerite of Josephine Veasey, and it only remains to trot out routine but sincere and appreciative compliments to everyone else concerned.

Since writing the above I have had the chance to see as well as hear Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust on DVD. He was a rum one, was Berlioz. It was only to be expected that he would be taken with the Faust legend, considering the impact Goethe’s Faust had on the entire romantic movement. Duly captivated, he treats us to what is in large part one of his highest achievements in ‘absolute’ music, with its wonderful instrumental episodes and its numerous songs. Whether it really comes near to Goethe’s great enquiry into what perdition, salvation, indeed the soul itself, may consist of I have never been too sure. It may be that there is a dimension missing from even the finest sound-only rendering, which is very likely this one, and that the work is crying out for staging. One way or the other, neglect it at the peril of your musical soul.

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