MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Ballet Music - The Lady and the Fool / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc [2 CD set]

MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Ballet Music - The Lady and the Fool / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc [2 CD set] cover $25.00 Low Stock add to cart

MENDELSSOHN / VERDI / CHOPIN / SATIE / SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Ballet Music - The Lady and the Fool / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc [2 CD set]
Garrick Ohlsson (piano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / London Philharmonic Orchestra

[ EMI Ballet Edition / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 July 2011

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Great 20th century choreographers draw on diverse musical sources in this collection: Sir Frederick Ashton appropriates Mendelssohn's exquisite incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Satie's haunting Gymnopédies; John Cranko, ably abetted by Sir Charles Mackerras, cherry-picks from the early operas of Verdi, while Bellini's operas inspire George Balanchine; Jerome Robbins dreams on Chopin's Nocturnes, and Michel Fokine, accepting Weber's Invitation to the Dance, also finds pathos in Saint-Saën's Carnival of the Animals.

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Tracks:

A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music Opp. 21 and 61
The Lady and the Fool - Suite
Night Shadow
Nocturnes
Monotones I
Le Carnaval des animaux 'The Swan'
Invitation to the Dance