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Busoni: Doktor Faust

Dietrich Henschel (Doktor Faust), Daniel Brenna (Mephistopheles), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Wagner/Master of Ceremonies), Joseph Dahdahv (Duke of Parma), Olga Bezsmertna (Duchess of Parma)

Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cornelius Meister, Davide Livermore

Busoni: Doktor Faust
To this new interpretation [Henschel] brings detail and intellectual rigour while the voice remains an exceptional one...Meister and his forces provide an honourable account of one of the 20th...

BBC Music Magazine, January 20254 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Busoni: Doktor Faust

Dietrich Henschel (Doktor Faust), Daniel Brenna (Mephistopheles), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Wagner/Master of Ceremonies), Joseph Dahdahv (Duke of Parma), Olga Bezsmertna (Duchess of Parma)

Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cornelius Meister, Davide Livermore

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To this new interpretation [Henschel] brings detail and intellectual rigour while the voice remains an exceptional one...Meister and his forces provide an honourable account of one of the 20th...

BBC Music Magazine, January 20254 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Doktor Faust was left incomplete at the time of Busoni’s death. Intended as his masterpiece, the opera’s genesis was complex and long. Based on Goethe’s tragic play, the story of Faust’s pact with the devil is well known but the opera’s structure represents Busoni’s unique conception, cast in two Prologues, a beautiful orchestral Intermezzo and three scenes. Exploring ideas of rationality and metaphysical doubt as well as the concepts of artifice and pretence inherent in operatic performance, the result is one of the most creative and unsettling of Busoni’s works.

  • Release date: 8th Nov 2024
  • Label: Naxos
  • Catalogue number: 8660531-33
  • Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303: Symphonia - Pax (Chorus)
Work length5:13
  • Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Chorus
  • Cornelius Meister
anon.: Doktor Faust, BV 303: Der Dichter an die Zuschauer: : Von Kind auf hat ein Stück mich hingerissen (Distant Voices)
Work length5:25
Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303, Prelude I
Work length8:58
Euerer Magnifizenz Verzeihung (Wagner, Faust)
Track length5:25
Wer seid ihr? (Faust, Students from Kraków, Wagner)
Track length3:33
Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303, Prelude II
Work length36:01
  • Dietrich Henschel, Dominic Barberi, Marcell Bakonyi, Zachary Wilson, Franz Gürtelschmied, Ewandro Stenzowski, Daniel Brenna, Maria Kokareva, Olha Smokolina, Aleksandra Meteleva
  • Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Chorus
  • Cornelius Meister
Die Sanduhr zeigt die Mitternacht (Faust, Chorus)
Track length5:53
Wie konnt’ es alsobald gelingen? (Faust, Chorus, Gravis, Levis, Asmodus, Beelzebub, Megäros)
Track length7:00
Ein einzelner blieb (Faust, Mephistopheles, Chorus)
Track length5:38
Willst Du mir dienen? (Faust, Mephistopheles)
Track length5:00
Draußen stehn die Gläubiger zu Hauf, die Du hast betrogen (Mephistopheles, Faust)
Track length5:12
Credo in unum Deum - Was verlangst du noch? (Chorus, Faust, Mephistopheles, Women’s Voices)
Track length7:18
Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303
Work length13:33
Scenic Intermezzo: Sostenuto (Organ Solo)
Track length3:01
Scenic Intermezzo: Du, der Du nicht allein (A Soldier, Mephistopheles, Faust)
Track length4:57
Scenic Intermezzo: Möchtest du mir nicht beichten? (Mephistopheles, A Soldier, Lieutenant)
Track length5:35
Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303, Scene I
Work length31:57
Cortège, in carattere d'una polacca - Sie nahn! Der Fürst! Die Fürstin! (Chorus)
Track length5:00
Nach dieser Feste rauschend bunter Reihe (The Master of Ceremonies, The Duke of Parma, Chorus, The Duchess of Parma, Mephistopheles, Faust)
Track length7:28
Was wünscht die schöne Herrin zu erschauen? (Faust, The Duchess of Parma, The Duke of Parma, The Master of Ceremonies, Chorus)
Track length5:17
Johannes und Salome! (Chorus, Faust, The Duchess of Parma, The Duke of Parma, Mephistopheles)
Track length4:27
Er ruft mich… zieht mich… (The Duchess of Parma)
Track length5:14
Ja, ich komme… - Was Wichtges, sagt Ihr? (The Duchess of Parma, The Duke of Parma, Mephistopheles)
Track length4:31
Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303: Symphonic Intermezzo: Sarabande
Work length5:34
Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303, Scene II
Work length31:41
  • Martin Piskorski, Franz Gürtelschmied, Florian Stern, Ewandro Stenzowski, Dominic Barberi, Marcell Bakonyi, Zachary Wilson, Dietrich Henschel, Marian Pop, Daniel Brenna, Łukasz Konieczny
  • Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Chorus
  • Cornelius Meister
So lang man Jugend hat (Chorus, Students from Wittenberg 1, 2, 4, 5, Theologian, Jurist, Naturalist)
Track length4:03
Nichts ist bewiesen und nichts ist beweisbar (Faust, Students from Wittenberg 1, 2, 3, 4, Chorus of Catholic and Protestant Students)
Track length4:41
Ihr, Doktor, weit gereist, erfahren (A Student, Chorus of Students, Faust, Mephistopheles)
Track length4:52
Dort war ein dummer Herzog (Mephistopheles, Chorus of Students, Faust)
Track length6:34
Traum der Jugend, Ziel des Weisen! - Ich schaue dich… (Faust, Chorus) [Completed by Philipp Jarnach, 1925]
Track length5:50
Der Mensch ist dem Vollkommenen (Faust, Students from Kraków)
Track length5:41
Busoni: Doktor Faust, BV 303, Last Scene
Work length18:12
Ihr Männer und Frauen (Night Watchman)
Track length1:54
Das Haus ist mir bekannt (Faust, Chorus, The Duchess of Parma) [Completed by Philipp Jarnach, 1925]
Track length7:43
Hilf, Sehnsucht, Urzeugerin (Faust) [Completed by Philipp Jarnach, 1925]
Track length4:27
Ihr Männer und Frauen (Night Watchman) [Completed by Philipp Jarnach, 1925]
Track length4:08

Awards and reviews

January 2025

To this new interpretation [Henschel] brings detail and intellectual rigour while the voice remains an exceptional one...Meister and his forces provide an honourable account of one of the 20th century’s great operas.
4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)
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