Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Delibes: Ballet Suites (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane: Les chasseresses
02. Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane: Intermezzo
03. Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane: Valse lente
04. Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane: Pizzicati
05. Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane: Moderato
06. Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane: Strette. Galop
07. Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane: Marche et cortège de Bacchus
08. La source: Pas des voiles
09. La source: Variation
10. La source: Danse circassienne
11. La source: Scène dansée
12. La source: Lent
13. La source: Mouvement de valse
14. La source: Pas de Naïla
15. La source: Scène et pas d'action
16. La source: Mazurka
17. La source: Marche dansée et final
18. Coppélia: Prélude
19. Coppélia: Valse
20. Coppélia: Thème slave varié
21. Coppélia: Var. 1
22. Coppélia: Var. 2
23. Coppélia: Var. 3
24. Coppélia: Var. 4
25. Coppélia: Var. 5
26. Coppélia: Csárdás
27. Coppélia: Musique des automates
28. Coppélia: Scène
29. Coppélia: Valse de la poupée
30. Coppélia: La prière
31. Coppélia: Danse de fête
32. Coppélia: Galop final



Neeme Järvi returns to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a dazzling album of suites from the ballets Sylvia, La Source, and Coppélia by Delibes. Born into a musical family, Delibes enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire aged twelve, studying under several professors including Adolphe Adam. He spent the 1850s and early 1860s composing light operettas and working as a church organist, before achieving public recognition for his music for the ballet La Source in 1866. His later ballets Coppélia and Sylvia were key works in the development of modern ballet, giving the music much greater importance than was previously the case. Typical of the period, the plots for these ballets are obscure, convoluted, and complex, but its certainly Delibess talent for lyrical melody and musical expression of a mood or feeling that elevates all three of these scores above their contemporaries indeed Coppélia went on to become the most frequently performed ballet at the Paris Opéra. Delibes was at the forefront of creating orchestral suites from his ballet music (much to the envy of Tchaikovsky, among others), and thus were indeed envisaged to be performed without staging or dancers. On this album Neeme Järvi adds several additional movements to expand upon the suites which appeared in Delibess lifetime.

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