Ernest Ansermet The Royal Ballet Gala Performances (2-CD) for Sale

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Ernest Ansermet The Royal Ballet Gala Performances (2-CD) For Sale

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Ernest Ansermet The Royal Ballet Gala Performances (2-CD):
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Personnel:

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, under thedirection of Ernest Ansermet

· Collectors Edition

· Issued in Double-CD Digipack Edition

· 28-Page Original Facsimile Booklet

· Original Living Stereo Recordings

· Newly Remastered in 24-Bit HQ Sound

The recording of these ballet excerpts recalled to me withpleasure the many years I worked together with the Ballets Russes of Diaghileffin Paris, the United States and numerous European and South American countries,as well as my association with the Royal Ballet of London on the occasion ofthe twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Diaghileff in 1954.

To direct a ballet is for a conductor a great and gratifyingexperience for it demands a completely special rhythmic sense, feeling fortempo and technical precision. Ballet today rarely has a large orchestra at itsdisposal and this is highly regrettable since ballet conductors need it if themusical effect is to be what it should.

In general, ballet music, except for its rhythmicallyaccentuated character, presents no special conducting problem, but the balletsof Stravinsky brought into symphonic literature changes of rhythm whichcompletely revised the technique of conducting. In these two records it was notpossible to include examples from Stravinsky since it is difficult to extractfrom them short excerpts. Besides, the aim of the album is to recall works onwhich the glory of the ballet was founded.

In my opinion, Coppélia, masterpiece of Delibes, is a modelballet and I believe this score was not without its influence on the lastballets of Tchaikovsky. These are however, in their turn, masterpieces trulyworthy of the great musician which Tchaikovsky was. A progress in the qualityof the music is apparent from Swan Lake to Sleeping Beauty to The Nutcracker.

The rebirth of the ballet under the influence of Diaghileffwas responsible for extremely interesting works. I fear though that themasterpieces of this periodthe ballets of Stravinsky, of Ravel, of Manuel deFallamarked for the time being a high point in the creation of ballet musicwhich has never since been reached.

One is not sufficiently aware that an art form does notdevelop unless it finds a social base and ballet at this moment, although ithas found passionate supporters in Anglo-Saxon countries, depends on acosmopolite and changing public which does not dictate clear directives to theauthors.

In these circumstances it is the more pleasant to rediscoverthe works which have been the touchstones of the musical genre.

Ernest Ansermet (From the originla liner notes)

TRACKLIST:

CD 1

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a (Excerpts)

01. March

02. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

03. Arabian Dance (Coffee)

04. Chinese Dance (Tea)

05. Dance of the Mirlitons

06. Waltz of the Flowers

Gioacchino Rossini

La Boutique Fantasque (Excerpts)

07. Tarantella

08. Andantino mosso

09. Can-Can

Léo Delibes

Coppélia (Excerpts)

10. Act 1: Prélude Mazurka

11. Introduction and Waltz

12. Czárdás (Danse hongroise)

13. Act 2: Valse de la poupée

Adolphe Charles Adam

Giselle (Excerpts)

14. Act 1: Introduction and Waltz

15. Act 2: Pas de deux and Variation

CD 2

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake, Op.20 (Excerpts)

01. Act 2: Scene (moderato)

02. Danse des petits cygnes (moderato)

03. Scene Pas de deux

Charles Taylor, solo violin

04. Valse

Robert Schumann

Carnaval, Op.9 (Excerpts)

Orchestration Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov

05. Pierrot

06. Reconnaissance

07. Pantalon et Colombine

08. Aveu

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Sleeping Beauty, Op.66a (Excerpts)

09. Introduction: Prologue The Lilac Fairy

10. Act 1: Rose Adagio

11. Pas daction Valse

Frédéric Chopin

Les Sylphides (Excerpts)

Orchestration Roy Douglas

12. Overture: Prélude in A, Op.28 No.7

13. Mazurka in C, Op.67, No.3

14. Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat, Op.18

Recorded in London at Kings Way Hall, 1957

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Ernest Ansermet The Royal Ballet Gala Performances (2-CD) For Sale

Ernest Ansermet The Royal Ballet Gala Performances (2-CD): $24.99

Ernest Ansermet The Royal Ballet Gala Performances (2-CD):
$24.99