Date with the Devil (Samuel Ramey)

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Label: Naxos

Genre: Choral - Secular; Opera; Orchestral

Period: 20th Century; Romantic

Catalogue No: 8.555355

Barcode: 0747313535521

Release Date: 05/2002

The dark-hued voice of Samuel Ramey presents the Devil in various guises, tempting Faust in Berlioz, Boito and Gounod, as Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and pursuing his diabolical course in The Tales of Hoffmann.

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Berlioz, Hector
Nerval, Gerard de - Lyricist
Berlioz, Hector - Lyricist
Gandonniere, Almire - Lyricist

La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 (excerpts)

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Marche de Rakoczi (Hungarian March)

04:47

Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Une puce gentille

02:54

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Devant la maison

02:36

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Meyerbeer, Giacomo
Scribe, Augustin-Eugène - Lyricist
Delavigne, Germain - Lyricist

Robert le diable (Robert the Devil): Nonnes qui reposez

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Robert le diable (Robert the Devil): Nonnes qui reposez

04:00

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Liszt, Franz

Mephisto Waltz

Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Two Episodes from Lenau's - Mephisto Waltz

11:31

Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Boito, Arrigo
Boito, Arrigo - Lyricist

Mefistofele (Mephistopheles) (excerpts)

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Ave Signor

04:29

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Son lo Spirito che hega sempre tutto

04:38

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Ecco il mondo

02:52

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Offenbach, Jacques
Barbier, Jules - Lyricist

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffman): Scintille, diamant!

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffman): Scintille, diamant!

04:10

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Gounod, Charles-François
Carré, Michel - Lyricist
Barbier, Jules - Lyricist

Faust (excerpts)

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Le veau d'or est toujours debout!

02:18

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Vous qui faites l'endormie ('Serenade')

03:16

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Stravinsky, Igor
Kallman, Chester - Lyricist
Auden, Wystan Hugh - Lyricist

The Rake's Progress (excerpts)

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

I was never saner.

04:12

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

I burn! I freeze!

01:53

Ramey, Samuel (bass)
Munich Radio Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rudel, Julius (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 53:36