Name: Liszt - Faust Symphony
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Release Date: 23rd Aug 2024
Catalogue No: BIS2510
Label: BIS
Length: 79 minutes

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Liszt: Faust Symphonie, S 108 (1854 version): I. Erster Teil. Faust

Work length30:05

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
Gergely Madaras

Liszt: Faust Symphonie, S 108 (1854 version): II. Zweiter Teil. Gretchen

Work length21:15

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
Gergely Madaras

Liszt: Faust Symphonie, S 108 (1854 version): III. Dritter Teil. Mephistopheles

Work length16:43

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
Gergely Madaras

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S 110 / 2

Work length11:08

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
Gergely Madaras

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Few literary works exerted as strong an influence on European culture in the 19th century as Goethe’s play Faust. While several important composers drew inspiration from it, Franz Liszt seems to have had a particularly close relationship with Goethe’s masterpiece. He came up with the idea of a symphony ‘in three characteristic pictures’, each devoted to a key character in the play: Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles. Rather than telling the story of the play, Liszt composed a psychological exploration of these three main figures. He was also a pioneer in his use of leitmotifs, i.e. short musical ideas that underline a trait of character or evoke feelings, a process that his future son-in-law, Richard Wagner, would take even further in his operas.

The Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, led by Gergely Madaras, presents the original, purely instrumental version of the Faust Symphony from 1854. This gigantic work is complemented by the first of the Mephisto Waltzes, inspired by Nikolaus Lenau’s vision of the Faust myth. These two works offer two very different perspectives on Liszt’s intense relationship with the character of Faust, and in particular with that of Mephistopheles, around whom many of his compositions are structured. They are key works for understanding Liszt’s aesthetic project and the typical nineteenth-century tendency towards a combination of the arts.

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