Faust spins records three nights a week, and the only night he can free up is a Thursday. |
Goethe's Faust reminds us forever that the devil is personal, not impersonal. |
The material from the two Faust treatments is perhaps less convincing, and Berlioz's arrangement of The Marseillaise at the end the disc is an unnecessary potboiler. |
The cynosure on the evening in question was the American tenor who sang the part of Faust. |
Apart from the Faust music, his most remarkable work is the programmatic symphonic poem Macbeth. |
He finds similarities between himself and the theme of Faust being in love with work and progress. |