Schumann - Scenes from Goethe’s Faust | Naxos 857243031

Schumann - Scenes from Goethe’s Faust

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 857243031

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 31st January 2011

Contents

Artists

Iwona Hossa (soprano I)
Christiane Libor (soprano II)
Anna Lubanska (alto I)
Ewa Marciniec (alto II)
Daniel Kirch (tenor)
Jaakko Kortekangas (baritone)
Andrew Gangestad (bass)
Warsaw Boys’ Choir
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra

Conductor

Antoni Wit

Works

Schumann, Robert

Scenes from Goethe's Faust, WoO3

Artists

Iwona Hossa (soprano I)
Christiane Libor (soprano II)
Anna Lubanska (alto I)
Ewa Marciniec (alto II)
Daniel Kirch (tenor)
Jaakko Kortekangas (baritone)
Andrew Gangestad (bass)
Warsaw Boys’ Choir
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra

Conductor

Antoni Wit

About

A first recording for the Naxos catalogue, Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is acknowledged by many as one of his finest scores.

Goethe’s Faust exerted a powerful influence on Romantic composers, offering Robert Schumann a number of unforgettable scenes drawn mainly from the mystical second part of the epic poem which he incorporated into this immensely moving large-scale cantata.

Opening with the first love scene between Gretchen and Faust and concluding with the climactic scene of Faust’s redemption, Schumann created a sweeping panorama of dramatic episodes with Mephistopheles’ trickery ultimately overcome as legions of celestial beings bear Faust’s soul to heaven.

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