Comments on: NZSO and Edo de Waart’s outstanding performance of Damnation of Faust https://middle-c.org/2017/08/nzso-and-edo-de-waarts-outstanding-performance-of-damnation-of-faust/ Classical Music Reviews, Wellington, New Zealand Wed, 30 Aug 2017 02:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Peter Verner https://middle-c.org/2017/08/nzso-and-edo-de-waarts-outstanding-performance-of-damnation-of-faust/comment-page-1/#comment-694180 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 02:29:07 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=12945#comment-694180 Where are the horses in Goethe’s Faust? Walpurgisnacht?
At the end of Faust Part One, Faust and Mephistopheles rush off to leave Marguerite behind after she rejects them.
If you want to check out the end of Part Two, listen to Mahler’s Symphony 8. Faust’s soul is taken to heaven by angels.
The story line in Berlioz bears only incidental resemblances to Goethe.
Nevertheless it was a fantastic concert.

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