Through his celebrated interpretations of a diverse and eclectic range of roles and repertoire, he is in great demand with many prestigious theatres around the world, working with orchestras, conductors and directors of the highest calibre. A spring dawn on the plains of Hungary. Mephistopheles responds with a song about a flea. The first notes of Marguerite’s ballad are F and B. Gluck and Spontini were important influences on the formation of his musical style, but it was his discovery of Beethoven at the Conservatoire concerts, inaugurated in 1828, that was the decisive event in his apprenticeship, turning his art in a new direction: the dramatic concert work, incarnating a ‘poetic idea’ that is ‘everywhere present’, but subservient to musical logic. They join a band of soldiers and students who are on their way to the town where she lives. The story is told in 8 episodic scenes, in Cirque Du Soleil style. In July 2018 Karen was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Mephistopheles appears and informs him that Marguerite has been condemned for the death of her mother, killed by the sleeping draughts she was given during Faust’s visits. La Damnation de Faust Libretto English Translation. It was far worse. Synopsis by David CairnsDavid Cairns won the biography category of the Whitbread Prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for his second volume biography on Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness. Hector Berlioz called La Damnation de Faust a "dramatic legend", not an opera or an oratorio. He hides behind the arras as Marguerite enters, oppressed by a dream in which she saw her future lover. Complete your Berlioz* - Veasey* / Gedda* / Bastin* / Van Allan*, London Symphony Orchestra* & Chorus*, Colin Davis* collection. It is said that Berlioz never intended for it to be staged. He throws away the cup and, reminded of his childhood devotions, imagines he has found a new peace. 24 (The Damnation of Faust) by Hector Berlioz (1803–69). He is the trusted advisor on choral singing to the world’s greatest conductors, orchestras and choruses, and also an inspirational teacher and ambassador for choral singing to amateurs of every age, ability and background. They are swept upwards and the scene moves to Auerbach’s cellar in Leipzig, where a noisy crowd of revellers are drinking. Hector Berlioz The Damnation of Faust Op 24 1846. We feel the weariness of the small hours in Faust’s study, the emptiness of learning as the stealthy fugato fades, the dustiness of the books that give no answers, the isolation of a baffled soul. with James Horner. By making singing a central part of the world-class institutions with which he is associated, he has been instrumental in changing the level of symphonic singing across Europe. The Orchestra works with a family of artists that includes some of the world’s greatest conductors – Sir Simon Rattle as Music Director, Principal Guest Conductors Gianandrea Noseda and François-Xavier Roth, and Michael Tilson Thomas as Conductor Laureate. London Symphony Orchestra © Ranald Mackechnie. Previous highlights include the title role in Richard Jones’ new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni for English National Opera, The Protector in George Benjamin's Written on Skin for the Royal Opera House, the title role in Barrie Kosky’s production of Handel's Saul at the Adelaide Festival, Alberich in Wagner's Götterdämmerung for Houston Grand Opera, Gamekeeper in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen and the title role in Saul for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, his debut at the Opera de Paris in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, Alberich in Götterdämmerung at the Bayerische Staatsoper and in Wagner's Siegfried with the Canadian Opera Company and Houston Grand Opera, the title role in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at Opera North, Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly in his house debut at the Chicago Lyric Opera, Balstrode in Britten's Peter Grimes at Teatro alla Scala and Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore at the Salzburger Festspiele. The visionary French composer was inspired by a bold translation of Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust and produced a monumental and bewildering musical work that, like the masterpiece on which it's based, defies easy categorization. 24 Part 1: "Le vieil hiver a fait place au printemps" (Faust) Part 2: "Sans regret j'ai quitté les riantes campagnes" (Faust) Part 3: Tambours et trompettes sonnant la retraite; Part 4: "D'amour … He became Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra in September 2017. The Chorus is an independent charity run by its members. Sir Simon Rattle was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Memoirs, Second visit to Germany, Third letter to M. Humbert Ferrand […] Among the works on the programme [of a concert at Pesth in February 1846] was the march which now serves as the finale of Part I of my legend of Faust. As a musical collective, it is built on artistic ownership and partnership. The sheer animation of the completed score, its sardonic humour and dazzling contrasts of mood, have often obscured two vital truths: the dramatic and structural logic of the whole, and the deadly seriousness underlying the brilliant surface. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. Alone in Marguerite’s room, Faust drinks in its purity and tranquillity. He was dramatising himself, his own inner experiences: his frustrated longings, an ideal of love destined never to find fulfilment, the boyhood religious faith irrevocably lost, the fatal ennui, the mal de l’isolement that first seized him as a boy, as he sat reading in a field and heard the Rogation procession pass nearby, chanting Te rogamus, audi nos – the very chant that in The Damnation accompanies the Ride to the Abyss, the final stage of Faust’s road to ruin. They perform a ritual dance of incantation, after which, in a diabolical serenade, Mephistopheles incites Marguerite to the arms of her lover. While we can't be together to perform live in the concert hall, we're delighted to be able to share these archive performances, and to be continuing much of our learning and community programme, LSO Discovery, online. “La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op. Demons bear Mephistopheles in triumph. Hector Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, dramatic legend in four parts, Op. He resolves to end it all and is about to drink poison when church bells peal out and voices proclaim the victory of Christ at Easter. Marguerite herself is his creature (though she escapes him in the end). $970.43. The rising phrase that spans the notes from E to B-flat establishes the tritone, the medieval ‘devil in music’. The London Symphony Orchestra was established in 1904 and has a unique ethos. Recent performances include Nielsen’s Springtime in Funen with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, Mahler Symphony No 3, and performances of Bizet'sCarmen with the Royal Opera House recorded for DVD. The vitality and vibrant imagery that are so striking a feature of the music only make more ironic and more profound the alienation of Berlioz-Faust from a world depicted with such seductive and lifelike vividness. Highlights with her regular recital partner Simon Lepper include appearances at Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Kennedy Centre Washington and Carnegie Hall, as well as regular recitals for BBC Radio 3. At the age of 17 he was sent to Paris to study medicine, but had already conceived the ambition to be a musician and soon became a pupil of the composer Jean-François Le Sueur. We hope that you enjoy this broadcast from our archives, recorded at the Barbican Centre in September 2017. Hector Berlioz Additional funding was received from the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, and Robert L. Turner, in memory of his father, Bert S. Turner. Audio CD. In opera, Karen has appeared as Judith (Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle) for Opera North. Karen regularly sings with the Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Rotterdam and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and has worked with conductors including Donald Runnicles, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniele Gatti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding, Robin Ticciati, Edward Gardner, Mariss Jansons and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. French composer Hector Berlioz puts a unique spin on the familiar tale of Faust, the scholar/scientist who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for love and knowledge. The devil cannot be escaped: he is within. Stream, download or buy on CD: http://smarturl.it/berliozfaust 150 years to the day since the composer's death, Sir Simon Rattle celebrates the incredible musical legacy of Hector Berlioz with a new recording of The Damnation of Faust, featuring Bryan Hymel, Karen Cargill, Christopher Purves \u0026 Gábor Bretz. By watching this concert, you are supporting the LSO in our commitment to bring great music to everyone. With a discography spanning many genres and including some of the most iconic recordings ever made the LSO is now the most recorded and listened to orchestra in the world, regularly reaching over 3,500,000 people worldwide each month on Spotify and beyond. Since graduating from the Franz Liszt Academy, Gábor’s regular performances at the Hungarian State Opera have included the title roles in Boito's Mefistofele and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Leporello and the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Banquo in Verdi's Macbeth, Colline in Puccini's La bohème, Don Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, Gurnemanz in Wagner's Parsifal, Zaccaria in Verdi's Nabucco, Orestes in Strauss' Elektra and Landgraf in Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Wagner Festival under Ádám Fischer in Budapest. Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust. While she braids her hair she sings an old ballad. Recent engagements have included Mahler Symphony No 3 (LSO/Haitink at the BBC Proms, LSO/Harding, Philharmonia/Hruša, LA Phil/ Dudamel), Nielsen's Springtime in Funen (BBC SO/Litton) at the BBC Proms, Mahler Symphony No 8 (Philharmonia/Salonen, London Philharmonic/ Jurowski), Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (Mariinsky/Gergiev), Stravinsky's Perséphone (Philharmonia/Salonen), the UK premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland, the soundtrack for The Hobbit at Abbey Road Studios, appearing on set in the film Philomena, and Titanic Live! The Damnation of Faust: the Hungarian March. The work was cut in two, and only part performed in 1863, in a theatre too small and poorly equipped. Although Béatrice et Bénédict (1860–62) came later, the opera The Trojans (1856–58) was the culmination of his career. With James Levine, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Marcello Giordani. Distant sounds of trumpets and drums and echoes of the soldiers’ and students’ songs break through her reverie. Night, in Faust’s study in North Germany, to which he has returned, driven by the ennui that still pursues him. He made his Teatro alla Scala debut as Don José (Bizet's Carmen) in 2010, later reprising the role with the Canadian Opera Company and in his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Thank you. Tiffin Girls’ School is nationally renowned for its outstanding musical provision and gives six major orchestral and choral concerts each year. Opera highlights have included appearances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Metropolitan Opera, New York; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Montpellier Opera; Glyndebourne Festival and Edinburgh Festival, with roles including Waltraute (Wagner's Gotterdämmerung); Erda (Wagner's Das Rheingold and Siegfried); Brangaene (Wagner's Tristan and Isolde); Mère Marie (Poulenc's Las Dialogues of the Carmelites) and Judith (Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle). The subject was too close to him for that. Hector Berlioz Born 1803, La Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France Died 1869, Paris, France “Hungarian March” from The Damnation of Faust, op. In a dream he sees Marguerite. Simon Halsey occupies a singular position in classical music. Hans von Bülow wrote rapturously to Liszt about it and Peter Cornelius called it ‘one of our greatest musical masterpieces, to be ranked with Haydn's Creation, Handel’s oratorios and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony’. He was celebrated in Germany (where Liszt championed him), in Russia (where receipts from his concerts paid off the debt from the Parisian failure of The Damnation of Faust), in Vienna, Prague, Budapest and London. The Choir has made recordings of most of the orchestral repertoire that includes boys’ choir and has recently been broadcast on the BBC, Classic FM and ITV. Peasants dance in honour of spring. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust / von Stade, Riegel, van Dam, Solti by unknown (1987-01-19) 4.9 out of 5 stars 6. Hymel made his widely anticipated debut in 2015 at the Opéra National de Paris for performances of Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, and returned later that season for performances of Verdi's La traviata. If you would like to support us through these difficult times, and to help us continue our mission to keep the music Always Playing, please visit lso.co.uk/support. For this hero there can be no salvation. At the very beginning the tiny worm of consciousness eating away Faust’s imagined felicity – the flattened sixth which poisons the seemingly serene viola melody (B-flat in the key of D major) – reveals the truth. Hymel debuted with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in a solo concert conducted by Music Director Frédéric Chaslin. The LSO is a highly successful creative enterprise, with 80% of all funding self-generated. 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