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Berners / Rte Chamber Choir / Alwyn- Wedding Bouqet (CD)

SKU: 747313522323
¥138.00
the album cover for Berners / Rte Chamber Choir / Alwyn - Wedding Bouqet
the album cover for Berners / Rte Chamber Choir / Alwyn - Wedding Bouqet

Lord Berners' compositions, often satirical in intention, include ballets for Diaghilev and for Sadler's Wells. While his first ballet, The Triumph of Neptune, is an ambitious and inventive example of his art (Naxos 8.555222), the choral ballet A Wedding Bouquet is Berners' most original and successful work, if somewhat influenced by Stravinsky's Les Noces. Written to a text by Gertrude Stein and choreographed by Frederick Ashton, this is music full of vivacity, festive brilliance and pathos. Set in a freak show pavilion, Luna Park is a 'fantastic ballet in one act', succinctly scored and wittily characterized.

Tracklist:

  1. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 1, Allegro Brilliant
  2. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 2, Tranquillo
  3. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 3, Tempo Di Valse
  4. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 4, Tempo De Tango
  5. March For Piano (Orch. P. Lane)
  6. Luna Park: I. The Four Niches
  7. Luna Park: II. Adagio
  8. Luna Park: III. Variation "Mamselle Nikita"
  9. Luna Park: IV. Variation "Serge Lifar"
  10. Luna Park: V. Coda
Format: New CD/Classical

Berners / Rte Chamber Choir / Alwyn- Wedding Bouqet (CD)

SKU: 747313522323
¥138.00

Release Date: 10.22.2021

 
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Lord Berners' compositions, often satirical in intention, include ballets for Diaghilev and for Sadler's Wells. While his first ballet, The Triumph of Neptune, is an ambitious and inventive example of his art (Naxos 8.555222), the choral ballet A Wedding Bouquet is Berners' most original and successful work, if somewhat influenced by Stravinsky's Les Noces. Written to a text by Gertrude Stein and choreographed by Frederick Ashton, this is music full of vivacity, festive brilliance and pathos. Set in a freak show pavilion, Luna Park is a 'fantastic ballet in one act', succinctly scored and wittily characterized.

Tracklist:

  1. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 1, Allegro Brilliant
  2. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 2, Tranquillo
  3. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 3, Tempo Di Valse
  4. A Wedding Bouquet: No. 4, Tempo De Tango
  5. March For Piano (Orch. P. Lane)
  6. Luna Park: I. The Four Niches
  7. Luna Park: II. Adagio
  8. Luna Park: III. Variation "Mamselle Nikita"
  9. Luna Park: IV. Variation "Serge Lifar"
  10. Luna Park: V. Coda