You feel you know Faust? Not so fast. The immortal legend of eternal damnation has taken many forms, including plays, operas and musicals. It’ll take a new one March 10 to 12 at Hartford Symphony ...
It did seem an odd way to start a symphony season. The all-American first half - William Schuman's flashy American Festival Overture and Aaron Copland's sublime Clarinet Concerto - fine. But then 70 ...
The audience was puzzled at intermission in a program centered on The Faust Symphony by Franz Liszt given by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as the orchestra continued its 2016-2017 Masterworks Series ...
Bryn Terfel is used to making a dramatic impact, but it is usually by his own merits. When Terfel, one of the world's leading bass-baritones, sang in The Damnation of Faust with Sir Andrew Davis at ...
The muted strings at the beginning of ‘Faust’, played largely without vibrato, lead seamlessly to the winds; and once we reach the Allegro impetuoso, note the clarity of the stopped horns – a real ...
Kazuki Yamada: New conducting kid on the block, loved by his orchestral players The arpeggios of childhood manage to make a comeback here, but not in the second movement, which starts with a ...
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Wagner’s thrilling Faust Overture, originally conceived as part of a projected symphony, is played with warmth and vigour. Indeed, one of the principal virtues of this production is the warmth of the ...
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