About Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod (1818-1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Gounod wrote his first opera, Sapho, in 1851, with the help of Pauline Viardot, but had no great theatrical success until Faust (1859), based on the play by Goethe. This remains his best-known work, and although it took a while to achieve great renown, it eventually became one of the most frequently staged operas of all time.
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Ave Maria
Ave Maria, CG 89a
Romeo et Juliette, Act I: Je veux vivre (Juliette)
Act 1-Introduction
Gounod: Faust: Variation du Miroir (Alegretto)
Act 1-Madrigal
No. 4 - Recitative and Air: Le voila!... Je l'ai vu!...
Act 1-Finale
Faust Ballet Music
Ave Maria (After J.S. Bach)
Faust: Alerte, alerte!
Roméo et Juliette, Act I: Ah! Je veux vivre
Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 1: "Ah, je veux vivre"
Faust, Ballet Music (1869): 6. Variations du miroir (Allegretto)
Romeo et Juliette: Ange adorable
Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 1: "Ah, je veux vivre dans ce rève"
Funeral March of a Marionette
Ouverture-Prologue
Valse De Juliette (Romeo & Juliette)
Faust, CG 4, Ballet Music: VI. Variations du miroir. Allegretto
Introduction
Gounod : Faust : Act 1 "Ne permettrez-vous pas" [Faust, Méphistophélès, Marguerite, Siébel, Chorus]
Act 2-Duo
Ave Maria: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846
Adagio
Messe solennelle de Sainte Cecile: Benedictus
Gounod: Faust, CG 4, Act 2 Scene 5: Waltz
Act 4-Finale
Marche funèbre d'une marionnette
Marche Funebre D'une Marionnette (Funeral March of a Marionette)
Roméo et Juliette, CG 9, Act I: Ah, je veux vivre
Fantasy in D minor K 397
Act 5-Entracte
Roméo et Juliette, Act V: Le sommiel de Juliette
Faust ("Margarethe")-Ballet Music: 5: Moderato con moto
Ainsi que la brise
Ave Maria, CG 89a (Arr. Emanuele Vianelli)
Bach / Gounod: Ave Maria (Meditation After Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846)
Gounod : Faust : Act 1 "Le veau d'or" [Méphistophélès, Chorus]
Act 5-Le sommeil de Juliette
Faust: Quel trouble inconnu me penetre?
Gounod: St Cecilia Mass: IV. Sanctus
Act 2-Scene & Choeurs
Act 1-Ballade de la reine Mab
Ave Maria: Arr. from Bach's Prelude No. 1, BWV 846 (Arr. by Maisky)
Ave Maria, CG 89a: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846: Ave Maria: Arr. From Bach's Prelude No. 1 BWV 846
Act 1-Recitatif
Faites-lui mes aveux
Roméo et Juliette, Acte II: "L'amour... Ah! Lève-toi, soleil!"
Act 5-Scene
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