Busoni: Doktor Faust
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FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Doktor Faust
Davide Livermore (director), Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Martin Piskorski, Marian Pop, Łukasz Konieczny, Dominic Barberi, Dan
[ Naxos / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 8 November 2024
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Doktor Faust, which Busoni considered a personal creative drama and which occupied him for
over twelve years, was left incomplete on his death at the age of 58. He had searched for a
dramatic subject that he hoped would represent the apex and summary of his entire career. The
opera was completed by Philipp Jarnach in 1925. As the librettist, Busoni managed to avoid
comparison to Goethe, and in favouring an open, discontinuous form 'in panels', he developed a
unique structure cast in two preludes, an orchestral intermezzo and three scenes to investigate
poetic questions of operatic artifice.
Tracks:
CD 1
1 Symphonia
2 The Poet to the Spectators
3-4 Prelude I
5-10 Prelude II
CD 2
1-3 Scenic Intermezzo
4-9 First Scene 31:59
CD 3
1 Symphonic Intermezzo
2-7 Second Scene
8-11 Last Scene
