tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post541822233420574136..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: Faust - Ferruccio Busoni Thomas Hampson GoetheDoundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-83549916846955074442009-08-04T19:15:21.331+01:002009-08-04T19:15:21.331+01:00You are absolutely right, it's Herschel, harsh...You are absolutely right, it's Herschel, harsh and metallic. You can see why I stopped listening after one or two plays and never went back !Doundou Tchilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-11949466738706462242009-08-04T15:49:54.584+01:002009-08-04T15:49:54.584+01:00Just a point of clarification: DFD is on the Nagan...Just a point of clarification: DFD is on the Nagano recording, but only as the Poet who speaks before the rise of the curtain and after its fall. Dietrich Henschel is Faust.<br /><br />For what it is worth, I prefer Fischer-Dieskau to Henschel. And Leitner's conducting is more alive, more dramatic than Nagano's. However, Leitner's recording is severely compromised by the cuts (within numbers!), which damage Busoni's 'closed forms'. Ideally, one would have both.<br /><br />I shall very much look forward to seeing the new DVD though. Hampson was Faust in the splendid Peter Mussbach production (under Nagano) I saw in Salzburg quite a few years ago. He really was very fine then. <br /><br />However, it is quite a relief to hear that the Beaumont completion (an appendix on the Nagano recording) is not used. It is of course interesting to hear the Helena music, but in the theatre, it comes across as an anti-climax. Philipp Jarnach's version, 'inauthentic' though it might be, packs such a (melo-)dramatic punch that, for me at least, it wins hands down every time. Indeed, it makes me curious to hear some of Jarnach's own music. His pupils include Weill (also of course a Busoni pupil), Skalkottas, and Zimmermann.Mark Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693194967620507933noreply@blogger.com