Faust

Music of Heinrich Wieniawski, inspired by Gounod.

This is a fantasy on his most famous opera, Faust.

We'll hear the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Antoni Witt and violin soloist Vadim Brodsky.

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[on-hold music]Violinist Vadim Brodsky joined the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Antoni Witt in Fantasie on Gounod's Faust by Henryk Wieniawski.

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Tröst' ich mich daran nur I've often done episodes on non-German operas performed in German translation.

I did an episode featuring Gounod's Faust, or Margarete as it was called in those days.

I've done a couple episodes on Verdi.

I've also done a Puccini in French episode, and I've also done a polyglot Wagner episode with his operas sung in Russian, Swedish, French, and maybe also English.

Wherever in the series of your pieces Goethe himself incites your strength, the bell resounds with its natural full tone, and the clapper beats in it as the heart does in the body.

If you had been able to ring the whole Faust bell — I know this was impossible — if the detached pieces had had reference to a great whole, then that great whole would have thrown on the single pieces a reflex which is exactly the certain something that may be gained from the great whole, but not from the single piece.

In single aphoristic things we never attain repose.

Only in a great whole is great power self-contained, strong, and therefore, in spite of all excitement, reposeful.

The son, at first, thought of following the same career.

His love of music, however, plainly inherited from his mother, who taught music with success, led him to a different and highly distinguished path.

Gounod wrote The Memoirs of an Artist and broke off abruptly in the midst of a sentence on his Faust.

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