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Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust / Veasey, Gedda, Bastin, van Allan, LSO, C. Davis

Hector Berlioz , Sir Colin Davis , Josephine Veasey , Nicolai Gedda , Jules Bastin , Gillian Knight , Richard van Allan , London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Audio CD
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listen  1. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 1 - Sc�ne 1. "Le vieil hiver a fait place au printemps"Nicolai Gedda 6:24$0.99 Buy Track
listen  2. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 1 - Ronde des Paysans. "Les bergers quittent" - Sc�ne 2. "Mais d'un �clat guerrier"Nicolai Gedda 4:21$0.99 Buy Track
listen  3. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 1 - Marche hongroiseThe London Symphony Orchestra 4:54$0.99 Buy Track
listen  4. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Sc�ne 3. "Sans regrets j'ai quitt� les riantes campagnes"Nicolai Gedda 5:36$0.99 Buy Track
listen  5. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Chant de la f�te de P�ques. "Christ vient de ressusciter!"Nicolai Gedda 5:57$0.99 Buy Track
listen  6. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - "H�las! doux chant du ciel"Nicolai Gedda 1:06$0.99 Buy Track
listen  7. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Sc�ne 4. "O pure �motion!"Nicolai Gedda 2:13$0.99 Buy Track
listen  8. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Sc�ne 5. Choeur de buveurs. "A boire encor!"Jules Bastin 2:34$0.99 Buy Track
listen  9. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Chanson de Brander. "Certain rat" - Fugue sur le th�me de la chanson. "Amen"Richard van Allan 3:42$0.99 Buy Track
listen10. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - "Vrai Dieu, messieurs"Jules Bastin 1:10$0.99 Buy Track
listen11. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Chanson de M�phistoph�l�s. "Une puce gentille"Jules Bastin 1:26$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - "Assez! fuyons ces lieux"Jules Bastin 2:22$0.99 Buy Track
listen13. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Sc�ne 6. Air de M�phistoph�l�s. "Voici des roses"Jules Bastin 2:38$0.99 Buy Track
listen14. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Songe de Faust. "Dors! heureux Faust"Nicolai Gedda 6:51$0.99 Buy Track
listen15. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Ballet des SylphesThe London Symphony Orchestra 2:28$0.99 Buy Track
listen16. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Sc�ne 7. "Margarita!"Nicolai Gedda 1:13$0.99 Buy Track
listen17. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 2 - Choeurs de Soldats et Chanson d'Etudiants. "Villes entour�es" - "Jam nox stellata velamina pandit"Nicolai Gedda 5:07$0.99 Buy Track
listen18. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - (Pr�lude: La retraite)The London Symphony Orchestra 1:07$0.99 Buy Track
listen19. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Sc�ne 8. Air de Faust. "Merci, doux cr�puscule!"Nicolai Gedda 4:49$0.99 Buy Track


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listen  1. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Sc�ne 9. "Je l'entends"Nicolai Gedda 1:02$0.99 Buy Track
listen  2. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Sc�ne 10. "Que l'air est �touffant"Josephine Veasey 3:11$0.99 Buy Track
listen  3. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Le roi de Thul� (Chanson gothique). "Autrefois un roi de Thul�"Josephine Veasey 5:37$0.99 Buy Track
listen  4. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Sc�ne 11. Evocation. "Esprits des flammes inconstantes"Jules Bastin 1:57$0.99 Buy Track
listen  5. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Menuet des Follets - Sc�ne 12. "Maintenant chantons � cette belle"Jules Bastin 6:06$0.99 Buy Track
listen  6. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - S�r�nade de M�phistoph�l�s. "Devant la maison"Jules Bastin 2:06$0.99 Buy Track
listen  7. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Sc�ne 13. "Grands dieux!" - Trio et choeur. (Duo:) "Ange ador�"Josephine Veasey 5:45$0.99 Buy Track
listen  8. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 3 - Sc�ne 14. "Allons, il est trop tard!" - "Je connais donc enfin"Josephine Veasey 4:36$0.99 Buy Track
listen  9. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Sc�ne 15. Romance. "D'amour l'ardente flamme"Josephine Veasey 8:37Album Only
listen10. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - "Au son des trompettes"Josephine Veasey 2:19$0.99 Buy Track
listen11. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Sc�ne 16. Invocation � la Nature. "Nature immense"Nicolai Gedda 5:36$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Sc�ne 17. R�citatif et Chasse. "A la vo�te azur�e"Nicolai Gedda 3:12$0.99 Buy Track
listen13. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Sc�ne 18. La course � l'ab�me. "Dans mon choeur retentit sa voix"Nicolai Gedda 3:31$0.99 Buy Track
listen14. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Sc�ne 19. Pandaemonium. "Has! Irimiru Karabrao!" - "Tradioun marexil"Jules Bastin 4:25$0.99 Buy Track
listen15. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Sc�ne 20. Epilogue sur la terre. "Alors, l'enfer se tut"London Symphony Chorus 1:19$0.99 Buy Track
listen16. La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 / Part 4 - Sc�ne 21. Le Ciel. "Laus! Laus!" - Apoth�ose de Marguerite. "Remonte au ciel, �me na�ve"Gillian Knight 4:56$0.99 Buy Track


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  • Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Philips
  • ASIN: B00000E35N
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Singing, Good Playing, Good Conducting, But ?, April 24, 2004
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This review is from: Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust / Veasey, Gedda, Bastin, van Allan, LSO, C. Davis (Audio CD)
This recording is part of the historic Colin Davis Berlioz cycle made for Philips in the 1970s. Philips originally release it in on CD the 1980s, and then they released it, without any changes in packaging or content, in 2001.

La Damnation de Faust is not an opera; it is not meant for the stage. It is a concert work, not a theatrical piece. It can be adapted for the stage, of course, and has been very successfully many times.

The male singers in this recording are hard to beat. Gedda in particular gives one of his best performances on record. The female singers are not the best, but they are very good. The chorus is also very good. All do reasonably well with the French diction and accents, though their mainly British heritage comes through from time to time.

Not enough can be said about the orchestra. No other recording quite matches the playing of the LSO. Most of the other recordings use French orchestrs, and the French simply were not up to the same standard as the British when the recording was made.

Colin Davis conducts a very lively performance. La Damnation features some of the most dymanic and bombastic music available, particularly in the Radetsky march. And Davis does not dissapoint there. He leads a performance that is equally as good in the action scenes and the dances as it is in the quiet moments of Faust's dispair and anguish.

All in all, sounds like a 5 star rating. But, I only give it four stars for two reasons. While Davis is very competent in every section, I don't feel like he successfully puts all the pieces together for a cohesive whole. The individual pieces do not flow together very well. He focuses too much on the individual trees and never sees the forest.

The recording is spectacularly captured by any standards. But, Philips could have gone back and made a new digital to audio remastering when they rereleased this in 2001. Instead, they used the same masters that were made with the first CD release in the 1980s. That master has some of the ill effects of early digitalizations, but it is bearable. The editing, though, is terrible. The Philips engineers did a very sloppy job of putting the pieces together. There are many times when I hear what can only be described as a tape splice, and the music thus looses much in terms of consistency and synergy.

So, this is a very good recording for listening to the individual sections, and will give hours of joy. I admit, because of the fine music making I turn to this recording for Damnation more than any other. But I rarely listen to it from beginning to end because the end-to-end experience is just not there.

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GOETHE DID NOT COMMENT, November 18, 2003
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This review is from: Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust / Veasey, Gedda, Bastin, van Allan, LSO, C. Davis (Audio CD)
Colin Davis probably did as much as any musician since the war to establish Berlioz as a central musical classic. This set is the earlier of his versions of Faust. In terms of recorded tone and quality it is good, but needs a little management to be heard to best effect. Right at the start Faust may seem just a bit remote, so you will be tempted to turn up the volume, only to think better of that when the first major orchestral outburst, recorded with great fidelity, makes its impact. Similar issues of tone-manipulation continue to present themselves throughout the set, but when you have been through it once you will have worked out your solution to what is only a minor problem with modern technology. In terms of the interpretation of the work, I doubt if there has been any better since, his or anyone else's.

Davis seems a complete natural for this extremely French music, much as Previn seems to be for English music. He understands his man through and through and finds no contradiction between the grandiose effect-maker and the lyricist who can take his place with Schubert, Weber and Brahms. For me, the crucial qualification in an interpreter of Berlioz is that he must know how to relax. This music, like Ravel's, will gather not just power but immense power through its own idiom and in the composer's good time, and it must not be forced in any way. Davis gets the Rakoszy march to perfection, and if that can actually be said for most conductors these days, I suspect it is in no small measure down to Davis that the standard has been set. Where vividness is called for, as in some of the more pantomimish turns by Mephistopheles, Davis gets his orchestra to respond admirably. If the result slightly suggests the version of the Devil ridiculed by C S Lewis's Screwtape as something in red tights, I suspect that was Berlioz's vision anyway.

Faust himself is far and away the most important vocal part. Faust here is sung by no less than Gedda, and his rendering has probably been the touchstone ever since. He is something like perfect, although I confess I was not listening, nor inclined to listen, for minutiae of his French pronunciation. In sound alone Mephistopheles is largely a singer of beautiful lyric music with a number of outbursts when the composer remembers to be diabolic, and while I can't associate Jules Bastin with this view, if that's what it happened to be he carries it off admirably. I have a particular liking for the steady, unexaggerated and affecting Marguerite of Josephine Veasey, and it only remains to trot out routine but sincere and appreciative compliments to everyone else concerned.

Since writing the above I have had the chance to see as well as hear Berlioz's Damnation of Faust on DVD. He was a rum one, was Berlioz. It was only to be expected that he would be taken with the Faust legend, considering the impact Goethe's Faust had on the entire romantic movement. Duly captivated, he treats us to what is in large part one of his highest achievements in `absolute' music, with its wonderful instrumental episodes and its numerous songs. Whether it really comes near to Goethe's great enquiry into what perdition, salvation, indeed the soul itself, may consist of I have never been too sure. It may be that there is a dimension missing from even the finest sound-only rendering, which is very likely this one, and that the work is crying out for staging. One way or the other, neglect it at the peril of your musical soul.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still vying for top honors, three decades later, February 5, 2007
This review is from: Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust / Veasey, Gedda, Bastin, van Allan, LSO, C. Davis (Audio CD)
For some reason Philips offers no recording date for this Damnation de Faust in its complete Colin Davis Berlioz set, but I assume it comes from the mid-Seventies. In every respect it's a spectauclar recording, with thunderous percussion and full-out brass. The reviewer below is right to call for a remastering into modern digital sound, but what we have here is very good. The phrase "embarrassment of riches" was invented for Berlioz's Faust, because the best recordings rise to an enviable high standard.

Among these, Davis's is one of two non-French contenders. In the Sixties DG released an electifying and very Gallic reading under Igor Markevitch with Parisian forces. Also from Paris came a fine 1969 recording under Georges Pretre for EMI, and in 1995-96 Nyung-Whun Chung returned the work in strength to England with a Philharmonia Orchestra recording on DG. Of these, I'd rate the Markevitch as the most vividly French as well as the most edge-of-your-seat exciting. But nobody would think about that listening to Davis's great account and the virtuosic LSO. (I'm passing over fine readings from Solti and Kent Nagano--Faust hasn't wanted for competitors.)

Nicolai Gedda made Faust one of his signature roles, recording it here and earlier for Pretre (if you're a fan, he has a third, even more fervent live reading under Pretre on Opera d'Oro). Everyone except Markevitch uses a mixed bag of international soloists. Davis's are quite fine. Josephine Veasey sounds a bit too neutral as Marguerite compared to the great Janet Baker for Pretre, but who wouldn't? Jules Bastin is nasal, mocking, and quite the dandy as Mephistopheles--in ohter words, just right. Davis's professional chorus is beyond reproach musically, although one might wish for a touch more rough-and-tumble.

In all, no listener will be remotely disappointed buying this classic set, even though it is matched at the peak by a rival or two. For all-around excellence in execution it has no rival.
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