Constant Lambert: Romeo & Julia (Ballettmusik)
Romeo & Julia (Ballettmusik)
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- +Elegiac Blues; Klavierkonzert; The Bird Actors-Ouvertüre; Prize Fight (Ballett)
- Künstler: Jonathan Plowright, English Northern Philharmonia, Lloyd-Jones
- Label: Chandos, DDD, 2004
- Bestellnummer: 6385505
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.9.2005
Product-Information:
Constant Lambert – pioneering ballet composer, maverick author and lover of cats – was composing in those heady days between the two wars when English artistic optimism was at a peak. The first English composer to have a work taken up by Diaghilev, his Romeo and Juliet was premiered by the Russian master in Monte Carlo. The story presents elements from the familiar Shakespearean story within the context of rehearsals for a ballet of the same, this convolution itself being typical of Lambert’s desire to avoid the obvious. The Piano Concerto recorded here dates from 1924 (the 1931 concerto is recorded on Hyperion CDA66754) but had to wait until 1988 before being given its first performance. Then, as now, the soloist was Jonathan Plowright. Three shorter works complete the programme: Prize Fight responds to the ludicrous musical confections by French contemporaries Satie, Poulenc and Milhaud (Lambert has the boxing ring collapse following a ‘pitch invasion’); The Bird Actors is a resurrected section from the original score for Romeo and Juliet; and Elegiac Blues is a jazz-inflected homage to Lambert’s idol Florence Mills who had so scandalized London ‘polite society’ with her touring shows in the 1920s.
Rezensionen
'Strongly recommended - hats off to Hyperion once again' (HMV Choice)
'sparkling disc of five orchestral works … Plowright and Lloyd-Jones are masterly advocates for this brilliant, entertaining music' (The Sunday Times)
'a fascinating programme' (The Times)
'Jonathan Plowright cuts a dash with his scintillating technique, opalescent tone and beguiling range of colour … A winner of a disc, this' (Gramophone Magazine)
Rezensionen
FonoForum 02/06: "Musik eines geistvollen Neoklassizisten aus dem Umkreis von 'Les Six' - irgendwo zwischen Strawinsky, Poulenc und Satie, leicht angejazzt, temperamentsprühend, ein augenzwinkernder Melodiker und pikanter Rhythmiker."- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
Romeo and Juliet (Ballett in 2 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme)
- 1 Rondino: The dancers arrive late for class (1. Akt)
- 2 Gavotte and Trio: Women's dance
- 3 Scherzetto: Men's dance
- 4 Siciliana: The professor teaches a pas de deux
- 5 Sonatina: The lovers are separated
- 6 Entr'acte: The stage is prepared (2. Akt)
- 7 Sinfonia: Romeo and Juliet meet at the ball
- 8 Alla marcia: The nurse and the servant
- 9 Toccata: The duel between Romeo and Tybalt
- 10 Musette: The balcony scene
- 11 Burlesca: Paris enters, searching for Juliet
- 12 Adagietto: The death of Juliet
- 13 Finale: Presto, the curtain falls
- 14 Elegiac Blues
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester
- 15 1. Allegro risoluto
- 16 2. Presto
- 17 3. Andante
- 18 4. Allegro
- 19 The Bird Actors (Ouvertüre)
- 20 Prize Fight (Ballett in 1 Akt)
