Name: Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108
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There's a lot right with this performance, not least being its outspoken acknowledgement of Faust's stormy character. Liszt's first-movement portrait receives zestful advocacy, less polished... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8553304
Label: Naxos
Length: 73 minutes

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Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108

Work length1:13:26

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Andras Molnar (tenor)
Hungarian State Opera, Franz Liszt Academy of Music Orchestra
Andras Ligeti
Recorded: 18-21 October 1994
Recording Venue: Concert Hall of the Academy of Music, Budapest

Faust

Track length28:16

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Gretchen

Track length21:03

Album only

Mephistopheles

Track length16:38

$4.00

$5.15

Final Chorus

Track length7:29

$2.00

$2.60

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2010

There's a lot right with this performance, not least being its outspoken acknowledgement of Faust's stormy character. Liszt's first-movement portrait receives zestful advocacy, less polished than some, perhaps, but fired by immense gusto.
The recording, too, is endowed with plenty of body, while András Ligeti's vocal promptings vie with Toscanini's in La bohème! Gretchen is quite comely and Ligeti effectively traces both her darker moods and those passages associated with Faust's yearning. Mephistopheles is more angry than 'ironico' and if you want confirmation of Ligeti's Lisztian mettle, then try from 5'49" through the following minute or so: it's quite thrilling. True, woodwind pointing isn't as vivid as under, say, Leonard Bernstein, but there's certainly no lack of enthusiasm. The Orchestra of the Franz Liszt Academy gives its all and the Hungarian State Choir makes noble music of the final chorus, even though András Molnár's wobbly tenor proves to be something of a distraction. It's a compelling if flawed production, less carefully prepared than its best rivals but more spontaneous than most.

Buy it and you'll encounter worthy reportage of a great score.

Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108

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