Ferruccio Busoni: Doktor Faust (CD)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Richard Lewis, Heather Harper, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

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(von Adrian Boult gekürzte Konzert-Version)

Artists:: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Richard Lewis, Heather Harper, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult
Label:: LPO
Year of recording ca.:: 1959
Item number:: 9736595
UPC/EAN:: 0854990001567
Release date:: 26.4.2019

Busoni’s opera, Doktor Faust is unquestionably one of the experimental operatic masterpieces of the twentieth-century. The composer wrote his own libretto and worked on the composition for nearly two decades, although it remained unfinished on his death in 1924. Completed the following year by Busoni’s pupil, Philipp Jarnach, this 1959 BBC broadcast features a superb cast of soloists including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Heather Harper and Richard Lewis.

Please note that after production of this CD, it has emerged that this is a shortened version of the opera created by the BBC for transmission in 1959.

(lpo. org. uk)

Reviews

,,Busonis komplexe Partitur profitiert in hohem Maße von Boults klarer, lyrische und dramatische Elemente sicher ausbalancierenden Darstellung. Fischer-Dieskau zeichnet - zehn Jahre vor seiner Münchner Einspielung der Oper - die Figur des Faust mit unübertrefflicher Prägnanz und stimmlicher Souveränität." (FONO FORUM, April 2013)