Vox Satanae – Episode 355 This week we hear works by Francesco Canova da Milano, Orlande de Lassus, Samuel Scheidt, Vincent Lübeck, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Hector Berlioz, Ferruccio Busoni, and Dominick Argento with performances by Sandro Volta, The Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Helmut Walcha, Gerald Hambitzer, Concerto Köln, Werner Erhardt, Anna Caterina Antonacci, The Berlin Philharmonic, François-Xavier Roth, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Aoife Miskelly, and Will Vann.
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Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust Classical Music Notice: The BBC Proms are underway. (The Proms are a huge summer concert festival.) Last Tuesday, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Michael Spyres, Ann Hallenberg, Laurent Naouri, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique did a performance of Hector Berlioz’ Dramatic Legend (between an opera and a cantata) titled “La damnation de Faust” (The Damnation of Faust). Between parts 2 and 3, there is an 20-minute intermission feature where they talk about The Devil in music with the author of the book The Devil: A Biography, Peter Stanford. After part 4, they play Giuseppe Tartini’s […]