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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

Alain Vernhes (Performer), Hector Berlioz (Composer), Jean-Claude Casadesus (Conductor), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Performer), Orchestre National de Lille-Région Nord - Pas-de Calais (Orchestra), Michael Myers (Performer) | Format: Audio CD
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listen  1. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part I Scene 1: Le vieil hiver a fait place (Faust) 5:59$0.89 Buy Track
listen  2. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part I Scene 2: Les bergers laissent leur troupeaux, "Peasants' Dance" (Chorus, Faust) 3:30$0.89 Buy Track
listen  3. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part I Scene 3: Mais d'un eclat guerrier (Faust)0:51$0.89 Buy Track
listen  4. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part I Scene 3: Hungarian March, "Rakoczy March" 4:52$0.89 Buy Track
listen  5. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 4: Sans regrets j'ai quitte les riantes campagnes (Faust) 4:44$0.89 Buy Track
listen  6. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 4: Easter Hymn: Christ vient de ressusciter! (Chorus, Faust) 5:34$0.89 Buy Track
listen  7. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 4: Helas! Doux chants du ciel (Faust) 1:04$0.89 Buy Track
listen  8. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 5: O pure emotion! (Mephistopheles, Faust) 2:16$0.89 Buy Track
listen  9. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 6: A boire encor! (Chorus, Mephistopheles)0:28$0.89 Buy Track
listen10. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 6: Oh! Qu'il fait bon! (Chorus, Brander) 2:23$0.89 Buy Track
listen11. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 6: Certain rat, dans une cuisine, "Brander's Song" (Brander, Chorus) 2:10$0.89 Buy Track
listen12. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 6: Amen, amen, amen!, "Fugue on Brander's Song" (Brander, Chorus) 1:20$0.89 Buy Track
listen13. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 6: Vrai dieu! Messieurs (Mephistopheles, Chorus) 1:12$0.89 Buy Track
listen14. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 6: Une puce gentille, "Mephistopheles Song" (Mephistopheles, Chorus) 1:35$0.89 Buy Track
listen15. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 6: Assez! Fuyons ces lieux (Faust) 2:20$0.89 Buy Track
listen16. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 7: Voici des roses (Mephistopheles) 2:31$0.89 Buy Track
listen17. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 7: Dors! Dors! Heureux Faust!, "Faust's Dream" (Chorus of Gnomes and Sylphs, Mephistopheles, Faust) 6:47$0.89 Buy Track
listen18. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 7: Dance of the Sylphs 2:24$0.89 Buy Track
listen19. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 7: Margarita! Qu'ai-je vu? (Faust, Mephistopheles) 1:11$0.89 Buy Track
listen20. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part II Scene 8: Finale: Villes entourees (Chorus of Soldiers and Students) 5:01$0.89 Buy Track


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listen  1. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 9: Drums and Trumpets Play the Retreat 1:09$0.89 Buy Track
listen  2. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 9: Merci, doux crepuscule!, "Faust's Aria" (Faust) 4:30$0.89 Buy Track
listen  3. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 10: Je l'entends! (Mephistopheles)0:57$0.89 Buy Track
listen  4. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 11: Que l'air est etouffant! (Marguerite) 2:45$0.89 Buy Track
listen  5. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 11: Autrefois un roi de Thule, "The King of Thule" (Marguerite) 4:21$0.89 Buy Track
listen  6. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 12: Evocation: Esprits des flammes inconstantes (Mephistopheles) 2:02$0.89 Buy Track
listen  7. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 12: Minuet of the Wills-o'-the-Wisp 5:44$0.89 Buy Track
listen  8. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 12: Maintenant, Chantons a cette belle (Mephistopheles)0:22$0.89 Buy Track
listen  9. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 12: Devant la maison, "Serenade of Mephistopheles", (Mephistopheles, Chorus of Wills-o'-the-Wisp) 2:02$0.89 Buy Track
listen10. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 13: Duet: Grand Dieu! Que vois-je! (Marguerite, Faust) 4:48$0.89 Buy Track
listen11. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 14: Trio and Chorus: Allons! Il est trop tard! (Mephistopheles, Marguerite, Faust) 2:15$0.89 Buy Track
listen12. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part III Scene 14: Hola, mere Oppenheim (Chorus of Neighbours in the Street) 2:49$0.89 Buy Track
listen13. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 15: Romance: D'amour l'ardente flamme (Marguerite) 7:34$0.89 Buy Track
listen14. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 15: Au son des trompettes (Chorus of Soldiers, Marguerite) 2:12$0.89 Buy Track
listen15. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 16: Nature immense, impenetrable, "Invocation to Nature" (Faust) 4:12$0.89 Buy Track
listen16. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 17: Recitative and Chase: A la voute azuree (Mephistopheles, Faust) 3:32$0.89 Buy Track
listen17. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 18: Dans mon coeur retentit sa voix, "The Ride to the Abyss" (Faust) 3:39$0.89 Buy Track
listen18. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 19: Pandemonium: Irimiru Karabrao! (Chorus of the Damned and the Demons) 4:03$0.89 Buy Track
listen19. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 19: Alors, l'Enfer se tut, "Epilogue on Earth" (Chorus) 1:08$0.89 Buy Track
listen20. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 20: Laus! Laus! Hosanna! (Chorus) 1:04$0.89 Buy Track
listen21. La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part IV Scene 20: Remonte au ciel, "Margarita's Glorification" (Chorus) 4:04$0.89 Buy Track

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  • Performer: Alain Vernhes, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Michael Myers
  • Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lille-Région Nord - Pas-de Calais
  • Conductor: Jean-Claude Casadesus
  • Composer: Hector Berlioz
  • Audio CD (May 16, 2006)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B000F6YWXA
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good budget Faust, but far short of the best, January 3, 2008
This review is from: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (Audio CD)
I can't understand why the previous reviewer oversold this live Damnation de Faust from 2003 -- it's provincial in every way, from the tremulous, nervous Faust daunted by his high-flying role to conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus's routine, underpowered conducting. You'll rarely hear a blander reading of a score that has brought out the best in Myun-Whun Chung and Igor Markevitch. I mention those two becasue their performances are quinessentially Gallic. This one is, too, but at a much lower voltage, not to mention mediocre talent. Only an edgy, sardonic Mephistopheles makes the listener sit up, and he can't carry the whole evening.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "The Damnation of Faust" on Naxos, January 22, 2007
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Hector Berlioz (1803 -- 1869) composed his "legende dramatique" (usually performed as a concert opera) "La Damnation de Faust" in 1846, incorporating substantial material he had composed much earlier. Berlioz' "Damnation of Faust" is based upon Goethe's "Faust" with the composer writing his own liberetto in French. Berlioz' work is a sweepingly romantic composition in four parts for three major soloists and large orchestra and chorus. Berlioz music tells the story of an aging scholar, Faust, tired and bored with life who wants to restore his youth and enthusiasm. He is tempted by Mephistopheles and sells his soul to save the beautiful woman, Marguerite, that Mephistopheles has found for him. The theme and the music are prototypical romantic and flamboyant Berlioz. But in addition to its deep romanticism, Berlioz' opera was heavily influenced by Gluck, Berlioz' great model, and the eighteenth century reformer of opera. As did his celebrated predecessor, Berlioz tried to fuse together music and drama in his operatic works to create an integrated whole.

Berlioz' large-scale works are difficult to record well, but this live Naxos recording, dating from November, 2003, in Lille, France is outstanding. Jean Claude Casadesus conducts the Orchestra National de Lille with the Slovak Philharmonic Choir performing the varied choral scenes. Tenor Michael Myers is a lyrical and passionate Faust, baritone Alain Vernhes a sardonic and evil Mephistopheles, and mezzo-soprano Marie-Ange Todorovitch a beautiful Marguerite. The liner notes include a detailed synopsis of the work but no liberetto. The two-CD set sells for a budget price which, together with the quality of the work and the performance, make it an excellent way of getting to know the Berlioz beyond the Symphonie Fantastique and the overtures.

There are three famous orchestral interludes in Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, which sometimes are joined together and played as as a collection of excerpts: the Hungarian March at the conclusion of Faust's sojourn in Hungary in Part I, the Dance of the Sylphs' in Part II, which follows Faust's dream of Marguerite, and the Minuet of the Wills- o'- the Wisp in Part III, which accompanies the seduction of Marguerite. These orchestral passages will form a wedge into the work for the new listener, but Berlioz' score includes much other dazzling music.

The highlights of Berlioz' music include include Marguerite's arias, particularly her Romance of longing for Faust at the beginning of Part IV, accompanied by an English horn. Todorovich gives passionate voice to this aria as well as to her song of the King of Thule and her duet with Faust in Part III. There is chilling music for Faust, Mephistopheles, and a chorus of the damned as Mephistopheles leads Faust on two black horses to hell and to eternal damnation. The work includes beautiful and etherial music as well, as it ends quietly with Marguerite in heaven.

There are many abrupt shifts of scene and musical style in Berlioz' Damnation of Faust which have made the work difficult to perform. But it is a grandly ambitious and ultimately successful work, as it tells of Faust's hubris and damnation and the ultimate salvation of Marguerite. This budget-priced recording is a great way to experience Berlioz' great and still too-infrequently heard "legende dramatique".

Robin Friedman
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