RTE Concert Orchestra feat. Andrew Penny - Sullivan: L'île enchantée & Thespis (Excerpts) (2021)

Tracklist

01. L'île enchantée: No. 1, Prelude
02. L'île enchantée: No. 2, Dance of Nymphs and Satyrs - Pas de châles
03. L'île enchantée: No. 3, Galop
04. L'île enchantée: No. 4, Storm - Entrance of the Gnomes - Entrance of Fairy Queen
05. L'île enchantée: No. 5, Pas de deux
06. L'île enchantée: No. 6a, Mazurka
07. L'île enchantée: No. 6b, Variation
08. L'île enchantée: No. 7, Scène des disparitions
09. L'île enchantée: No. 8a, Tempo di valse
10. L'île enchantée: No. 8b, Variation for Mlle. Carmine
11. L'île enchantée: No. 9, Pas de trois
12. L'île enchantée: No. 10, Scène de jalousie
13. L'île enchantée: No. 11, —
14. L'île enchantée: No. 12, Galop
15. L'île enchantée: No. 13, Finale
16. Thespis (Excerpts): Introduction. Allegro moderato
17. Thespis (Excerpts): Pas de châles. Andante
18. Thespis (Excerpts): Valse
19. Thespis (Excerpts): St. George and the Dragon
20. Thespis (Excerpts): Galop



Soon after his return from studies in Leipzig, Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote his second work, L’Île Enchantée. This was a ballet score on the subject of a shipwrecked mariner which debuted at Covent Garden in the form of a divertissement at the end of Bellini’s La sonnambula, where it was received with acclaim. This premiere recording restores passages Sullivan cut when presenting the work for concert performances. Thespis, a collaboration with W.S. Gilbert, is a flamboyant opera cum pantomime of which only fragments now remain—the work’s lost ballet has been rediscovered and restored by Roderick Spencer and Selwyn Tillett.

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