Liszt: a Faust Symphony

[EnemyoftheStoat]

It's a BBC recording from the 2011 Proms, 26th July. Post-production for the CD issue by Andrew Walton of K&A Productions. The FLAC download looks well worth getting, though you miss out on the very swish packaging and programme notes, etc.

Not me then - might talk nicely to an LPO contact though...

[Alison]

The Jurowski Proms account is on YouTube. Have always loved this work and especially this performance.

[BBMmk2]

Of the two CD versions I have - Sinopoli/Dresden and Bernstein/NY - I definitely prefer Lennie but also enjoy Giuseppe despite some reviews slating it. Having followed up a few online recommendations, my favourite by some distance for sound, characterisation and dynamism, which I listened to on Spotify, is now Ivan Fischer with Budapest Festival Orch. As a curiosity, it also contains the original orchestra-only conclusion as well as the now-standard later choral version.

That looks like a version for me.

[Joseph K]

Current spinning:



Ok, it has to be said: I am not far into this and already can tell it's better than the other one I have, which I recommended earlier on this thread! Can hear much more detail and the music really benefits from what I think is a HIPP approach, more pungent brass etc. though I wouldn't ascribe all of this to the instruments used.

[akiralx]

A year or two back Imogen Cooper played a piano transcription of the Gretchen movement in a lunchtime concert - very effective.

She recorded this transcription for Chandos presumably at the same time.

[Barbirollians]

Very impressed by the Haselbock recording of the Dante Symphony thanks HD and others.