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Horenstein Conducts Lizst, Wagner, Bruckner

Horenstein Conducts Lizst, Wagner, Bruckner

Catalog Number: VCDX25504
Label: Vox
Format: CD

Available: 12
Price: $9.99

Categories: Orchestral Music
Budget Periods: Romantic

Composers: Anton Bruckner, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner
Directors: Jascha Horenstein

Jascha Horenstein conducts:

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Faust Symphony, S 108
Ferdinant Koch, Tenor
Male Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Faust Overture
Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108
Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra

Track ListingTimeMP3
CD One
Franz Liszt
Faust Symphony, S 108
1I. Faust25:18
2II. Gretchen18:28
3III. Mephisto; Choral Finale23:22
Richard Wagner
4A Faust Overture10:10
CD Two
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108
1I. Allegro moderato13:40
2II. Scherzo- Allegro moderato14:59Horenstein Conducts Lizst, Wagner, Bruckner - II. Scherzo- Allegro moderato
3III. Adagio- Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend25:28
4IV. Finale- Feierlich, nicht schnell22:33Horenstein Conducts Lizst, Wagner, Bruckner - IV. Finale- Feierlich, nicht schnell

Jascha Horenstein has contributed some notably dramatic interpretations to records, but possibly nothing exceeds his reading of his reading of the Liszt A Faust Symphony...This is in every respect a great performance, and the orchestra playing is just fabulous.
The New Records, April 1964