Opera in five acts (with ballet music)
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
English translation by Christopher Cowell
The Cast
Paul Charles Clarke, tenor - Faust
Alastair Miles, bass - Méphistophélès
Mary Plazas, soprano (PMF Scholar) - Marguerite
Garry Magee, baritone - Valentin
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano - Siébel
Matthew Hargreaves, bass-baritone - Wagner
Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano - Martha
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry - conductor
Recorded in Blackheath Halls, London - 27-31 July 1998
Producer - Brian Couzens, Sound engineer - Ralph Couzens,
Assistant engineer - Richard Smoker

'This is a charismatic boulevardier of a Méphistophélès, sung with Gallic suavity and no Germanic galumphing. Miles rightly makes him a mocking vulgarian, hinting only occasionally at formidable demonic depths.'