Recent performances include Nielsen’s Springtime in Funen with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, Mahler Symphony No 3, and performances of Bizet'sCarmen with the Royal Opera House recorded for DVD. Sir Simon Rattle conductor Karen Cargill Marguerite Bryan Hymel Faust Christopher Purves Mephistopheles Gábor Bretz Brander, London Symphony Chorus Tiffin Boys’ Choir Tiffin Girls’ Choir Tiffin Children’s Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director. Gluck and Spontini were important influences on the formation of his musical style, but it was his discovery of Beethoven at the Conservatoire concerts, inaugurated in 1828, that was the decisive event in his apprenticeship, turning his art in a new direction: the dramatic concert work, incarnating a ‘poetic idea’ that is ‘everywhere present’, but subservient to musical logic. La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op. For this hero there can be no salvation. That was the text he knew and identified with and took to his heart, when he read and re-read, compulsively, Gérard de Nerval’s French translation. The Orchestra works with a family of artists that includes some of the world’s greatest conductors – Sir Simon Rattle as Music Director, Principal Guest Conductors Gianandrea Noseda and François-Xavier Roth, and Michael Tilson Thomas as Conductor Laureate. In despair, Faust signs a paper agreeing to serve Mephistopheles in return for saving her life. Hector Berlioz called La Damnation de Faust a "dramatic legend", not an opera or an oratorio. Distant sounds of trumpets and drums and echoes of the soldiers’ and students’ songs break through her reverie. He was dramatising himself, his own inner experiences: his frustrated longings, an ideal of love destined never to find fulfilment, the boyhood religious faith irrevocably lost, the fatal ennui, the mal de l’isolement that first seized him as a boy, as he sat reading in a field and heard the Rogation procession pass nearby, chanting Te rogamus, audi nos – the very chant that in The Damnation accompanies the Ride to the Abyss, the final stage of Faust’s road to ruin. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust / von Stade, Riegel, van Dam, Solti by unknown (1987-01-19) 4.9 out of 5 stars 6. Sir Simon Rattle was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. The LSO has been the only Resident Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in the City of London since it opened in 1982, giving 70 symphonic concerts there every year. Hymel made his Covent Garden debut in 2010 as Don José in Bizet's Carmen and has since returned for performances in Dvořák's Rusalka, Berlioz's Les Troyens, Meyerbeer's Robert le diable and Verdi's Les Vêpres siciliennes. With an inimitable signature sound, the LSO’s mission is to bring the greatest music to the greatest number of people. Through his celebrated interpretations of a diverse and eclectic range of roles and repertoire, he is in great demand with many prestigious theatres around the world, working with orchestras, conductors and directors of the highest calibre. 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