Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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der that he might make use of this wild and pulse-quickening melody. His treatment of it is brilliant in the extreme, and it remains one of the most effective portions of his Faust. In this connection it is interesting to remember that Liszt,although a warm friend of Berlioz, considered himself aggrievedand wrote to Mme. Tardieu in 1882: My transcription of theRakoczy March * * * is twice as long as the well-known versionof Berlioz, and it was written before his. Delicate sentiments offriendship for the illustrious Frenchman induced me to withhold itfrom publication until after his death. * * :: In writing it hemade use of one of my earlier transcriptions. Scene II shows Faust alone in his study, as in the Gounodversion. He is about to take poison, when the strains of theEaster hymn come from the adjoining church and arrest his purpose.Mephistopheles then appears and suggests that they go forth andsee the world together, to which Faust consents. * Double-Faced Record—See page 83. 81
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COPYT MISHKIN renauds striking conception of mephisto VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPER A—B ERLIOZS FAUST In the third scene Faust and Mephistopheles go to a beer cellar in Leipsic, where studentsand soldiers are carousing. Brander sings his song of the rat, -which as in the Gounod opera,meets with but ironical praise from Mephistopheles, and he volunteers his famous Romanceof the Flea, a curiosity of music as effective as it is difficult to render. Chanson de la puce (Song of the Flea) By Pol Plancon, Bass (In French) 8108Z 10-inch, $2.00 Gounods Mephistopheles is mild and innocent by the side of the strange utterances ofthe Devil as portrayed by Berlioz. This is one of the most interesting numbers in the work, for Berlioz has described, bymeans of clever forms in the accompaniment, the skipping of the flea in various directions.The words are most fantastic— Once a king, be it noted, had a fine and lusty flea,And on this flea he doted, cherishd him tenderly,So he sent for his tailor, and

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