Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Janet Baker (Marguerite), Nicolai Gedda (Faust), Gabriel Bacquier (Méphistophélès), Pierre Thau (Brander), Janet Baker (mezzo)
Chœurs de l’Opéra de Paris, Orchestre de Paris & LSO, Georges Prêtre & Alexander Gibson
With Nicolai Gedda and Janet Baker in their prime, a French orchestra lending Gallic bite to the colouring and Prêtre securing commitment and vitality, there's a pact to be made! By way of...
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Janet Baker (Marguerite), Nicolai Gedda (Faust), Gabriel Bacquier (Méphistophélès), Pierre Thau (Brander), Janet Baker (mezzo)
Chœurs de l’Opéra de Paris, Orchestre de Paris & LSO, Georges Prêtre & Alexander Gibson
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With Nicolai Gedda and Janet Baker in their prime, a French orchestra lending Gallic bite to the colouring and Prêtre securing commitment and vitality, there's a pact to be made! By way of...
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- Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (bass-baritone), Jean Laforge (choir director), Maria Peronne (soprano), Pierre Thau (bass), Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
- Brad Smith, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra
- Georges Prêtre
- Recorded: 1969-10-01
- Recording Venue: October 1969. Salle Wagram, Paris
- Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (bass-baritone), Jean Laforge (choir director), Maria Peronne (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Pierre Thau (bass)
- Brad Smith, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Chœur du Théâtre national de l'Opéra de Paris
- Georges Prêtre
- Recorded: 1969-10-01
- Recording Venue: October 1969. Salle Wagram, Paris
- Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (bass-baritone), Jean Laforge (choir director), Maria Peronne (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Pierre Thau (bass)
- Brad Smith, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra
- Georges Prêtre
- Recorded: 1969-10-01
- Recording Venue: October 1969. Salle Wagram, Paris
- Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (bass-baritone), Jean Laforge (choir director), Maria Peronne (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Pierre Thau (bass)
- Orchestre de Paris, Brad Smith, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Choeurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris
- Georges Prêtre
- Recorded: 1969-10-01
- Recording Venue: October 1969. Salle Wagram, Paris
Work length20:56
This work is only available as an album download.
- Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Alexander Gibson
- Recorded: 1969-09-15
- Recording Venue: 14-15 September 1969: Watford Town Hall
Awards and reviews
July 2007
With Nicolai Gedda and Janet Baker in their prime, a French orchestra lending Gallic bite to the colouring and Prêtre securing commitment and vitality, there's a pact to be made! By way of epilogue Cleopatra is utterly transfixing.
March 2014
It doesn't get much better than Dame Janet Baker and Nicolai Gedda both at the peak of their powers; George Prêtre marshals his French forces with élan and just enough greasepaint in this 'dramatic legend'. Baker's febrile but consummately regal account of La Mort de Cleopatre is a superb bonus.
