For an Italian composer, Doktor Faust is a very German opera: three slow hours of soul-searching, angst, and metaphysics.
256. Doktor Faust (Busoni)
Tag: Faust
207. Faust (Gounod)
The devil has the best tunes in Gounod’s operatic masterpiece.
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