KEENE, N.H. Doktor Faust -- The two great plays about the Faust legend are by an Elizabethan, Christopher Marlowe ("Doctor Faustus") , and a Romantic German, Wolfgang von Goethe ("Faust, Parts 1 and 2 ...
Presented here is Jarnach’s version, which Philippe Jordan prefers on musical grounds, “whether it really fits with the rest of the work or not”. He approves of Jarnach’s use of Wagnerian leitmotif ...
Busoni’s own polemics stressed that, unlike Wagner’s, his words and music fulfilled different functions and that each section of the work had a distinct symphonic form – scene 1 a dance suite, scene 2 ...