بررسی Les Siècles/Lehmann La Damnation de Faust – رنگ‌های زنده، تک‌نوازی سر به فلک کشیده و دیو با لباس تیز

Les Siècles/Lehmann La Damnation de Faust review – vivid colour, soaring solos and a sharp-suited demon

Royal Albert Hall, London Period instrument grain and an energised Jakob Lehmann did a fair job with Berlioz’s concert setting of the drama, but the hall’s murky acoustic buried some of the sparkle Berlioz wrote his setting of the Faust story for concert performance, counting on the fact that what went on in his audience’s mind’s eye would be more fantastical than anything that could be portrayed on stage. The…