| Naxos | The Devil has long had a leading part to play in drama and in music, either menacing mortals in a medieval miracle play or leading romantic heroes and heroines into difficulties in the world of romantic opera. The nineteenth century found a particular fascination in the character of the Devil, a supposed source of diabolical inspiration for a Paganini or a Liszt or a principal figure in Faustian legend. Dr Faustus himself, perhaps based on the early scientist and experimenter Paracelsus, found his place in German legend and in a moral publication of 1587 that warned of the dangers of intellectual speculation. This was the source of Christopher Marlowe's play, in which the good doctor, true to story, sells his soul to the Devil in return for a period of youth and consequent pleasure. In the following century the Devil acquires heroic stature in Milton's Paradise Lost to return with less ambiguity in Goethe's great poetic drama, the source of so much else in music and opera. |
| Disc No: 8.555355 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: A Date with the Devil | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Berlioz, Hector | La Damnation de Faust - Marche de Rakoczi | Munich Radio Orchestra - Julius Rudel Samuel Ramey, bass | ||
| Berlioz, Hector | La Damnation de Faust - Une puce gentille | |||
| Berlioz, Hector | La Damnation de Faust - Devant la maison | |||
| Meyerbeer, Giacomo | Robert le diable - Nonnes qui reposez | |||
| Liszt, Franz | Lenau's - Mephisto Waltz | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Ave Signor | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Son lo Spirito che hega sempre tutto | |||
| Boito, Arrigo | Mefistofele - Ecco il mondo | |||
| Offenbach, Jaques | Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Scintille, diamant! | |||
| Gounod, Charles | Faust - Le veau d'or est toujours debout! | |||
| Gounod, Charles | Faust - Vous qui faites l'endormie ('Serenade') 03:16 | |||
| Stravinsky, Igor | The Rake's Progress - I was never saner | |||
| Stravinsky, Igor | The Rake's Progress - I burn! I freeze! |