The colossal nightingale strikes again
Giampaolo Bisanti leads the concert version of La Damnation de Faust in Liège (****½) [live]
Hector Berlioz was only 25 when he composed “Huit scènes de Faust”, a subject that would continue to haunt him and that would culminate some 20 years later in the mature composition of “La Damnation de Faust”. Yet he would include the “Huit scènes” in it almost unchanged.
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