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Faust
With Donald Macleod. The "eternal feminine" is the motivating force of life itself, claims Faust - but not before he has made a tragic victim of the woman known in the legends variously as Margerita, Margareta and Gretchen. She is the subject of today's portrait. Music includes: Wagner A Faust Overture
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano)
Schubert Scene from Faust, D126b
Janet Baker (mezzo),
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Liszt Concert Paraphrase on the Waltz from Gounod's "Faust"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Liszt A Faust Symphony (Part 2: Gretchen) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Simon Rattle

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Conductor:
Schubert Gretchen
Contralto:
Spinnrade Kathleen Ferrier
Piano:
Phyllis Spurr
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Piano:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Source: Radio Times

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