Lunchtime Concert - Restless Spirit
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
- Cost: $20 general admission
- More information: Bookings
- Contact: Martin Victory Concert Manager
- Email: concertmanager@adelaide.edu.au
Timothy Young and Paavali Jumppanen piano duo
Liszt Faust Symphony
Liszt wrote A Faust Symphony; Three Character Pictures, Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, after Goethe in 1854, adding a triumphant choral finale later. His version for two pianos appeared eight years later. Faust’s first theme employs one of the earliest 12-tone rows in history; the second movement portrays Faust’s yearning for Gretchen; whilst the third characterizes Mephistoles as a spirit of negation with no themes of his own – just transformations and distortions from the first two movements.