Liszt: Faust Symphony Steve Davislim, Chorus Sine Nomine, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck

• Franz Liszt (1811-1886): A Faust Symphony in Three Character Sketches, S. 108 :
• 1 I. Faust 26:59
• 2 II. Gretchen 17:36
• 3 III. Mephistopheles - IV. Chorus Mysticus 23:45
• Total Runtime 01:08:20

Info for Liszt: Faust Symphony

The Faust Symphony undoubtedly constitutes one of the principal works of Liszt’s Weimar period, if not indeed his orchestral masterpiece. Liszt had become acquainted with Goethe’s poem Faust in 1830, in the French translation of Gérard de Nerval. He began composing the work in the 1840s, after a visit to the Goethe House in Weimar. Its first performance was arranged for September 1857, to mark the centenary of Grand Duke Carl August and the erection of a statue to Goethe and Schiller. On this occasion Liszt rounded the work off by adding a tenor solo and chorus at the end. The premiere took place on 5 September. This musical transposition of the poem is performed here by Orchester Wiener Akademie under Martin Haselböck, and follows their recording of Liszt’s transcriptions of works by Schubert, released in 2015 (Alpha 471). In parallel with this, the Viennese period-instrument orchestra is also continuing its Resound Beethoven project, the recording of the complete symphonies at the venues of their first performances.

Steve Davislim, tenor
Chorus Sine Nomine
Orchester Wiener Akademie
Martin Haselböck, conductor

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