Liszt: A Faust Symphony

Noble, passionate performance of Liszt’s greatest work, Bernstein conducting with precision and fervour, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ideal. Not much is added by seeing Bernstein emoting at every point. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:03 pm

COMPOSERS: Liszt
LABELS: EuroArts
ALBUM TITLE: Liszt
WORKS: A Faust Symphony
PERFORMER: Boston SO/Leonard Bernstein
CATALOGUE NO: 2072078

Noble, passionate performance of Liszt’s greatest work, Bernstein conducting with precision and fervour, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ideal. Not much is added by seeing Bernstein emoting at every point. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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