The Damnation of Faust

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values White and Kasarova in particular sing at a level of intensity that would swamp anything less the climactic seduction trio has rarely been sung so well or with such an overpoweringly polymorphous eroticism Cambreling marshals his forces effectively giving full rein to the works showstoppers like the Hungarian March but not neglecting the subtler less kinetic Gluckian side of Berliozs vocal writing Recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele 1999