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Faust
With Donald Macleod. The towering greatness of Goethe's Faust tends to eclipse the many other treatments of the legend. Occasionally composers have drawn inspiration from sources other than Goethe, and today's programme encounters more than one highly exotic version. Music includes:
Smetana Doctor Faust
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Stankovsky Spohr Faust (Act 2: Blocksberg Scene)
Women's Voices of the Bielefeld
Opera Chorus, Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Moull Ginastera Overture to the Creole
"Faust"
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, conductor Maximiano Valdes
Schnittke Faust Cantata (Night Scene) Inger Blom (mezzo),
Malmo Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James DePriest
Henri Rabaud Procession Nocturne,
Op 6 Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic , conductor Leif Segerstam

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Robert Stankovsky
Conductor:
Spohr Faust
Conductor:
Geoffrey Moull
Conductor:
Maximiano Valdes
Unknown:
Inger Blom
Conductor:
James Depriest
Conductor:
Henri Rabaud
Conductor:
Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic
Conductor:
Leif Segerstam
Faust:
Michael Vier(baritone)
Mephistopheles:
Eelco von Jordis(bass)
Sycorax:
Maria Kowollik(soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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