BBC Proms 2017 Prom 31 Berlioz - The Damnation of Faust (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2017 Prom 31 Berlioz - The Damnation of Faust (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Michael Spyres, Ann Hallenberg, Laurent Naouri with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Berlioz's Damnation of Faust

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

00. Introductory commentary
01. The Damnation of Faust, Parts 1&2
02. The Damnation of Faust, Parts 3&4
02i. Introduction to The Damnation of Faust, Parts 3&4
03. The Damnation of Faust, Parts 3&4
04. Interval - Proms Extra, the devil in music
Presenter Christopher Cook discusses the devil in music with opera historian Sarah Lenton and Peter Stanford, writer of the book 'The Devil: a biography', a theme inspired by Berlioz's Damnation of Faust.

Michael Spyres (tenor), Faust
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Marguerite
Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone), Méphistophélès
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), Brander
Trinity Boys Choir
Monteverdi Choir
National Youth Choir of Scotland
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to the Proms with The Damnation of Faust, continuing his multi-season Berlioz series. Part opera, part cantata, this 'dramatic legend' is an epic retelling of the Faust story that captures the extremes of man's ambition and folly in music by turns exquisite and grotesque. American tenor Michael Spyres returns to the Proms in the title-role, with Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg as the innocent victim, Marguerite.

Broadcast: 8 August 2017