Nouvelle fantaisie sur 'Faust', Op.13 (Pablo de Sarasate)
by Amadeus Symphony Orchestra
Violin Soloist: Clara Schreiber
Event: Overtures and Fantasies Concert, celebrating YMAI's 25th birthday
Date: 24 August 2017
Place: Pusat Perfilman Usmar Ismail, Kuningan
Sarasate wrote Concert Fantasy On Themes From Gounod's 'Faust' in 1874 for violin and piano and as with many of his other fantasies on popular works by other composers, he made a version for soloist and orchestra.
The French composer Charles Gounod is remembered mostly for his operas, with Faust being his most popular. The opera was loosely based on Johann Goethe's play Faust : eine Tragödie, Part One. The legend of Faust, a scholar that trades his soul to the devil so he can gain unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures, is a German legend that was first published in 1593, but the legend is probably much older than that. Goethe's version was published in 1808, with a second part published after his death.
The work begins with dramatic chords, devilish harmonies played by the orchestra. The soloist enters with demonic double stops and the fireworks begin straight away. After some appropriately heavy and 'damned' music followed by more lyrical music, Sarasate segues to music from Act 2, At The City Gates. Faust has already made his pact with Méphistophélès. At the city gate Méphistophélès sings his aria Le veau d'or (The Golden Calf), a spiteful song about greed and the wickedness of man. Sarasate translates some of the harshness of the original with the embellishments he gives to the aria. The set of themes are from the Garden Scene, Act 3 of the opera. Méphistophélès and Faust are in Marguerite's garden where Faust attempts to seduce her. Faust kisses her, but she sends him away. But soon she longs for him and calls for his return. The final theme used is from the final scenes of Act 2, the famous Waltz From Faust.
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