A century of French music (1830–1930): Liszt’s Faust Symphony

Sunday 7 March 2010

Apologies for changing my mind, but it occurred to me that:

It would be best to listen to the two Sibelius symphonies (5 and 7) in our final session, and;
Seeing that we’ve started in on good and evil (when have we ever, ever not?), now would be an ideal time to tackle the Faust Symphony and the whole subject of Lisztian transformation.

Bring your bell, book and candle.

French composers

Alkan, Charles-Valentin (1813–1888) • Auric, Georges (1899–1983) • Berlioz, Hector (1803–1869) • Bizet, Georges (1838–1875) • Boulanger, Lili (1893–1918) • Caplet, André (1878–1925) • Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841–1894) • Chaminade, Cécile (1857–1944) • Chausson, Ernest (1855–1899) • D’Indy, Vincent (1851–1931) • Debussy, Claude (1862–1918) • Dukas, Paul (1865–1935) • Duparc, Henri (1848–1943) • Fauré, Gabriel (1845–1924) • Franck, César (1822–1930) • Gounod, Charles (1818–1893) • Hahn, Reynaldo (1874–1947) • Honneger, Arthur (1892–1955) • Koechlin, Charles (1867–1950) • Lalo, Edouard (1823–1892) • Magnard, Alberich (1865–1914) • Massenet, Jules (1842–1912) • Milhaud, Darius (1892–1974) • Offenbach, Jacques (1819–1880) • Poulenc, Francis (1899–1963) • Ravel, Maurice (1875–1937) • Ropartz, Guy (1864–1955) • Roussel, Albert (1869–1937) • Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835–1921) • Satie, Erik (1866–1925) • Schmitt, Florent (1870–1958) • Tailleferre, Germaine (1892–1983) • Thomas, Ambroise (1811–1896) • Tournemire, Charles (1870–1939) • Varèse, Edgard (1883–1965) • Vierne, Louis (1870–1937) • Widor, Charles-Marie (1844–1937) •