Valse de l'opéra Faust de Ch. Gounod, S407

composer

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

1861

composer

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

1859; Faust

Recordings

Eileen Joyce – The complete Parlophone & Columbia solo recordings

Eileen Joyce (piano)

Buy by post £25.00 APR7502 5CDs

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Suisse

Stephen Hough (piano)

Buy by post £13.99 CDA67424

Liszt: Complete Piano Music

Leslie Howard (piano)

Buy by post £250.00 CDS44501/98 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 6 – Liszt at the Opera I

Leslie Howard (piano)

Buy by post £26.98 CDA66371/2 2CDs

Details

Stephen Hough (piano)

Track 11 on CDA67424 [10'14]

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 8 on CDA66371/2 CD1 [9'22] 2CDs

Track 8 on CDS44501/98 CD37 [9'22] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Extract: Abridged

Eileen Joyce (piano)

Track 11 on APR7502 CD2 [4'11] 5CDs

Valse de l'opéra Faust de Ch. Gounod, S407

Gounod’s Faust, despite its cavalier approach to Goethe, has held the boards from the beginning, but Liszt’s ingenious elaboration of the Waltz, into which he inserts material from the first encounter of Faust and Gretchen, goes a long way towards restoring the demonic spirit of the play, and especially of the dark purpose of Mephistopheles in the relationship of the lovers. Musically, Gounod is transformed and transcended at a stroke!

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