Faust Symphony / Dante Symphony

Album by Franz Liszt

Faust Symphony and Dante Symphony are two programme-driven symphonic works by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, composed and first performed in the 1850s. Both pieces extend Romantic orchestral language via expansive thematic transformation, dramatic contrasts between solo and choral/orchestral forces and vivid programme-based structure, representing a pivotal phase in Liszt's development of the symphonic poem and his exploration of large-scale orchestral narrative.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Eine Faust-Symphonie: Faust
    31:41
  2. 2.
    Eine Faust-Symphonie: Gretchen
    22:52
  3. 3.
    Eine Faust-Symphonie: Mephistopheles
    24:19

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Dante Symphony: Inferno, lento
    20:53
  2. 3.
    Dante Symphony: Purgatorio, andante con moto quasi allegretto, tranquillo assai
    17:54
  3. 4.
    Dante Symphony: Magnificat
    8:36
  4. 5.
    À la Chapelle Sixtine, transcribed for orchestra, S. 360 (LW G26)
    17:41

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