Doktor Faust (2006)

• 79%
• 2006
• Musique
• Thomas Hampson
• Günther Groissböck
• Gregory Kunde

Faust - a lonely scholar, despairing of life, who has so far failed to discover its highest meaning is given a book on black magic from three mysterious students from Cracow. When Méphistophélès appears and proposes a pact with Faust, the two of them set off together on a (dream) journey. Docteur Faust remained a fragment at the time of the composer's death. Busoni died in 1924, unable to complete what he himself described as his de l'état "masterpiece" - à opera to which he had a deep personnel de l'attachement. The missing scenes from the score were completed by his pupil, Philipp Jarnach, qui de Busoni had become acquainted with during his period in exile, à Zurich. Dans this form the opera was given its first performance à Dresde en 1925. Then in the 1980s the conductor Anthony Beaumont came across previously undiscovered sketches by Busoni and produced a new version of Docteur Faust. The current recording uses the Jarnach score.