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Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, with footage from Murnau's 1925 "Faust" silent movie. Live audio recording (minidisc...) in Porto, 18.07.2000.Liszt's music is subtitled "Scene from Lenau's Faust", and although it differs from Murnau's storyline, it makes for rewarding reading and overall character of the piece. Comments and criticism welcome.LENAU'S "FAUST"A Village inn. A wedding, music and dancing.MEPHISTO(in hunter's outfit, looking out of a window)Aha, things proceed apaceLet us join the banquet(he enters with Faust)A passionate girlGives more pleasure than a book.FAUSTI don't know what is happeningAnd what troubles all my senses,Never before has my blood boiled so hot,I find myself in a troubled state.MEPHISTOThe flames in your eyes say it clearly,This is a troop of unbridled pleasureWhich you had imprisoned in your ridiculous pretensionsAnd which are breaking out from all sides.Grab a girl to dance withAnd throw yourself recklessly into the whirlwind.FAUSTThat one with the brown eyes over thereAttracts my soul irressistibly.Her eyes shine with a seductive powerAnd promise me an abyss of voluptuousness.How her red cheeks are on fireAnd glitter with life, fullness and freshness!To press one's lips against hers,Bursting with an unfulfilled desire,A voluptuous pulp where consciousness would love to die.How her breasts heave and shiver with fearIn the blessed flux of desire!I would love to raptuously claspThis svelte and so well formed body.Ah!, how her long, brown and curly hairIn its impatience has vanquished all restraint!They swirl in the danceAnd I think of bells sounding at full peal the alarm of pleasure.I will become mad, I will die of desire,If I continue to look any longer at this woman.However, I cannot make up my mindTo approach her and greet her.MEPHISTOOh!, truly this curious race,These children of the first sinning couple!Our man braves hellBut dare not face a weak, young woman,Who certainly has many fine physical attributesBut even ten times more desires.(to minstrels) My dear little ones,You wield your bow much too gently!Your waltz certainly can make the sick burn with joy on their torpid toesBut not at all youth full of blood and fire.Pass me a violin,You will soon hear quite another musicAnd you will see in this inn some real dancing.The fiddler does as he is toldAnd hands the fiddle to the guest,Who now begins to play a dance.But, oh! this is no jest.The strains now rise, the strains now ebb,His bow becomes a magic web.Some hear what is droll, perhaps even laughter,To others voluptuous moans fill the rafter.The tones seems to whisper like secretive loversLike waves when caressing the bodies of maidens.Of a sudden a cry breaks through all these noisesThe maiden affright is calling for help,While the notes of the fiddle entwine and entice,The boy in the reeds leaps out in a thriceAnd embraces the maid who struggles in vain -- The fiddle plays on describing her pain.The maid in the end must concede that she is lost,And is forced to yield to her lover's accost,While there in a corner one happily yieldsTo her lover's warm kisses and loud supplications.The strings are now sounding three note incantations,As if one maiden was being wooed by two men.To the melting notes of the fiddleThe victor and maiden fade away in embrace.And ever more fiery, more thund'rous and stormy,The yowling and cheering of dozens of menAnd again the whimper from virginal maidensThe devilish fiddler brings forth with his bow.The peasant musicians hear all this in terrorAnd throw their own fiddles away.The circle bacchantic devours all those presentIn its vortex's magical spellEven the walls of the inn's redoubtAre pale with regret that they are being left out.But ahead of all others our Faust in full blissHis brunette in his arms, on her lips his kiss,He presses her close, he babbles great vowsAnd reeling in rapture the pair blindly ploughsOut the doos, down the garden path they hurl,Chased by the sounds of the fiddle infernalInto the forest, deep and nocturnal.Until the moment the spectral soundHas died away and the lovers foundThemselves under the spell of the nightingaleIn a perfumed bush, whose voluptuous wailSwells further the passions of Faust and his bride -- As if that singer were at the devil's side,And they drown in the sea of bliss.(english adaptation by Imanuel Willheim)

Author: campinho
Keywords: Faust Lenau Murnau Miguel Campinho Franz Liszt Mephist Waltz Valsa Mefisto Piano Classical
Added: August 10, 2008

Made by a Captive Nightingale in the possession of Herr Reich, Bremen / Victor Red Seal / 64161 / Recorded 03 May 1910

Author: CurzonRoad
Keywords: Song of Nighingale Herr Reich Victor Red Seal 78 rpm Acoustic Victrola Phonograph Silhouette CurzonRoad
Added: August 4, 2008

Author: MAPNP
Keywords: Nightingale Yanni Live Concert Event Violin Piano Harp Trumpet Sayaka Katsuki Samuel Yervinyan Victor Espinosa Flores
Added: July 19, 2008

Mark Nightingale and twenty of "Holland's Greatest" playing What now my love in this tribute to Urbie Green. Slidefactory '07 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Mark Nightingale (solo trombone)Tenortrombones played by:Jan Bastiani, Victor Belmonte, Quirijn van den Bijlaard, Bart Claessens, Jaume Gavilan, Evert Josemanders, Ron Oligschlager, Eloy Panizo, Bert Pfeiffer, Jorgen van Rijen, Arno Schipdam, Martin Schippers, Nico Schippers, Henrik Söderlund, Pierre VoldersBasstrombones played by:Brandt Attema, Martin van den Berg, Mark Boonstra, Jos Jansen, Hans SchippersLaurens Priem (guitar)Frans van Geest (bass)Haye Jellema (drums)Rembrandt Frerichs (piano)Slidefactory '09 will feature Joe Alessi, Michel Becquet, Christian Lindberg, Jorgen van Rijen, Wycliffe Gordon, Nils Landgren, Stefan Schulz, New Trombone Collective and many others!Stay updated through the website http://www.slidefactory.nl

Author: NTC10
Keywords: trombone posaune becquet alessi mark nightingale slidefactory rotterdam lindberg urbie green collective ensemble 21
Added: March 18, 2008

Mark Nightingale and twenty of "Holland's Greatest" playing What now my love in this tribute to Urbie Green. Slidefactory '07 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Mark Nightingale (solo trombone)Tenortrombones played by:Jan Bastiani, Victor Belmonte, Quirijn van den Bijlaard, Bart Claessens, Jaume Gavilan, Evert Josemanders, Ron Oligschlager, Eloy Panizo, Bert Pfeiffer, Jorgen van Rijen, Arno Schipdam, Martin Schippers, Nico Schippers, Henrik Söderlund, Pierre VoldersBasstrombones played by:Brandt Attema, Martin van den Berg, Mark Boonstra, Jos Jansen, Hans SchippersLaurens Priem (guitar)Frans van Geest (bass)Haye Jellema (drums)Rembrandt Frerichs (piano)Slidefactory '09 will feature Joe Alessi, Michel Becquet, Christian Lindberg, Jorgen van Rijen, Wycliffe Gordon, Nils Landgren, Stefan Schulz, New Trombone Collective and many others!Stay updated through the website http://www.slidefactory.nl

Author: NTC10
Keywords: trombone posaune becquet alessi mark nightingale slidefactory rotterdam lindberg urbie green collective ensemble 21
Added: March 18, 2008

Mark Nightingale and twenty of "Holland's Greatest" playing What now my love in this tribute to Urbie Green. Slidefactory '07 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Mark Nightingale (solo trombone)Tenortrombones played by:Jan Bastiani, Victor Belmonte, Quirijn van den Bijlaard, Bart Claessens, Jaume Gavilan, Evert Josemanders, Ron Oligschlager, Eloy Panizo, Bert Pfeiffer, Jorgen van Rijen, Arno Schipdam, Martin Schippers, Nico Schippers, Henrik Söderlund, Pierre VoldersBasstrombones played by:Brandt Attema, Martin van den Berg, Mark Boonstra, Jos Jansen, Hans SchippersLaurens Priem (guitar)Frans van Geest (bass)Haye Jellema (drums)Rembrandt Frerichs (piano)Slidefactory '09 will feature Joe Alessi, Michel Becquet, Christian Lindberg, Jorgen van Rijen, Wycliffe Gordon, Nils Landgren, Stefan Schulz, New Trombone Collective and many others!Stay updated through the website http://www.slidefactory.nl

Author: NTC10
Keywords: trombone posaune becquet alessi mark nightingale slidefactory rotterdam lindberg urbie green collective ensemble 21
Added: March 18, 2008

Mark Nightingale and twenty of "Holland's Greatest" playing What now my love in this tribute to Urbie Green. Slidefactory '07 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Mark Nightingale (solo trombone)Tenortrombones played by:Jan Bastiani, Victor Belmonte, Quirijn van den Bijlaard, Bart Claessens, Jaume Gavilan, Evert Josemanders, Ron Oligschlager, Eloy Panizo, Bert Pfeiffer, Jorgen van Rijen, Arno Schipdam, Martin Schippers, Nico Schippers, Henrik Söderlund, Pierre VoldersBasstrombones played by:Brandt Attema, Martin van den Berg, Mark Boonstra, Jos Jansen, Hans SchippersLaurens Priem (guitar)Frans van Geest (bass)Haye Jellema (drums)Rembrandt Frerichs (piano)Slidefactory '09 will feature Joe Alessi, Michel Becquet, Christian Lindberg, Jorgen van Rijen, Wycliffe Gordon, Nils Landgren, Stefan Schulz, New Trombone Collective and many others!Stay updated through the website http://www.slidefactory.nl

Author: NTC10
Keywords: trombone posaune becquet alessi mark nightingale slidefactory rotterdam lindberg urbie green collective ensemble 21
Added: March 18, 2008