Artist
Sargent, Sir Malcolm

Dirigent
Sargent, Sir Malcolm

Medvirkende
Hammond, Joan | Lewis, Richard | Nowakowski, Marian | Alan, Hervey | Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth | Boyce, Bruce

Komponist
Berlioz, Hector | Dvorak, Antonin

Ensemble
BBC Choral Society | BBC Symphony Orchestra

Plateselskap
Cameo Classics

Verk

SIR MALCOLM SARGENT CONDUCTS

HECTOR BERLIOZ THE DAMNATION OF FAUST, OP. 24

Joan Hammond, mezzo-soprano - Marguerite, a young woman
Richard Lewis, tenor - Faust, an aging scholar
Marian Nowakowski, bass - Mephistopheles, the Devil disguised as a gentleman
Hervey Alan, bass-baritone - Brander, a student
BBC Choral Society • BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall 25 February 1953

DISC 1 78.30

FIRST PART A plain in Hungary
1. Scene 1 Introduction 7.31
2. Scene 2 Chorus & Dance of Peasants’ 4.15
Scene 3 An army advances. 5.44
3. Hungarian March

SECOND PART North Germany
4. Scene 4 Faust is alone in his study 5.40
5. Easter Hymn 8.10
6. Scene 5 Mephistopheles appearing suddenly 2.48
Scene 6 Auerbach’s cellar at Leipzig
7. Drinking Song 3.01
8. Brander’s Song 1.56
9. Fugue on the theme of Brander’s Song 3.27
10. Mephistopheles’ - ‘Song of the Flea’ 2.17
Scene 7 Wooded meadows on the banks of the Elbe
11. Mephistopheles’ Aria 5.17
12. Chorus of Gnomes & Sylphs. Faust’s Dream 5.57
13. Ballet of the Sylphs 3.45
14. Scene 8 Finale. Soldiers’ Chorus & Students’ Song 4.57

THIRD PART Marguerite’s room, evening.
15. Scene 9 Faust’s Aria. 5.18
16. Scene 10 Mephistopheles, rushing in 1.09
17. Marguerite enters holding a lamp 2.57
18. Scene 11 Marguerite’s Ballad - ‘The King of Thule’ 4.20

DISC 2 72.23

1. Scene 12 Mephistopheles. Evocation 2.12
2. Dance of the Will-o’-the-Wisps 5.27
3. Mephistopheles’ Serenade 2.50
4. Scene 13 Marguerite & Faust. Love Duet 4.36
5. Scene 14 Trio and Chorus. 5.32

FOURTH PART
6. Scene 15 Marguerite. Romance 8.46
7. Scene 16 Faust. Invocation to Nature 4.31
8. Scene 17 Faust and Mephistopheles. Recitative and Hunt 2.28
9. Scene 18 The Ride to the Abyss 3.32
10. Scene 19 Pandemonium. Chorus of the Damned 3.34
11. Epilogue on Earth 1.21
12. Scene 20 In Heaven 5.32
Marguerite’s Glorification

ANTONIN DVOŘÁK TE DEUM OP. 103

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Bruce Boyce,baritone
BBC Choral Society • BBC Symphony Orchestra

13. I Te Deum laudamus. Allegro moderato maestoso 6.57
14. II Tu Rex gloriae, Christi.Lento maestoso 6.05
15. III Aeterna fac cum sanctis.Vivace 2.04
16. IV Dignare Domine.Lento6.56

Part of the Dvorák Commemoration Concert, BBC
Broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall 26 May 1954