RTE Sinfonietta, David Lloyd-Jones - Lord Berners: Ballet Music - Les sirènes & Cupid and Psyche Suite (2022)

Tracklist

01. Fanfare
02. Les sirènes: Prelude
03. Les sirènes: Opening Scene
04. Les sirènes: Entry of Fashionable Folk. Tempo di valse
05. Les sirènes: Mazurka
06. Les sirènes: Farruca
07. Les sirènes: Allegro agitato
08. Les sirènes: Habanera
09. Les sirènes: Pas de deux
10. Les sirènes: Scene
11. Les sirènes: Dénouement
12. Cupid and Psyche Suite: I. Overture
13. Cupid and Psyche Suite: II. Psyche
14. Cupid and Psyche Suite: III. Pas de deux
15. Cupid and Psyche Suite: IV. Entracte
16. Cupid and Psyche Suite: V. Les Zéphyrs
17. Cupid and Psyche Suite: VI. Act III Prelude
18. Cupid and Psyche Suite: VII. Valse lente - Final Dance



Lord Berners excelled in the ballet medium where he enjoyed collaborations with leading choreographers and conductors with whom his natural flair for spectacle and design could be explored to the full. In 1946 he wrote Les Sirènes, set on a French beach in 1904 with an exotic cast – the music is atmospheric, graceful and full of allusions to other composers. Cupid and Psyche was not a critical success but its music transcended weaknesses in the scenario and the suite is both orchestrally deft and thematically memorable.

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