Berlioz's tempestuous masterwork recorded live in all its dramatic glory, with soloists Bryan Hymel (Faust), Christopher Purves (Mephistopheles) and Karen Cargill (Marguerite), plus Gábor Bretz as the rabble-rousing student Brander.
LSO0809-D 125 minutes 54 seconds (2 discs)
‘To say it immediately, it is a test that the new line-up passes with flying colours. Of course these are not the players who appeared under Pierre Monteux in 1962, or (one assumes) mostly under Colin ...