Two archetypal human characters as imagined by two great composers, thanks to the inspiration of GOETHE'S play Faust Liszt Faust (first movement of Faust Symphony)
FRENCH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by YUVAL ZALIOUK (French Radio recording)
Schubert Songs (settings of poetry associated with Gretchen in Goethe's play: sung in German): Ballad of the King of Thule; Margaret at the Spinning-wheel; Margaret's Prayer; Scene in the Cathedral GUNDULA JAINOWITZ (soprano) IRWIN GAGE (piano)
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1976 Salzburg Festival)
Liszt Gretchen
SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRA, conducted by JASCHA HORENISTEIN : record