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Coppélia. Suite ; Sylvia. Suite / Delibes. Faust. Ballet music / Gounod.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Vic. 6618932 v. 7 CD
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Delibes, Léo, 1836-1891.
- Series:
- Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964. Pierre Monteux edition ; 7.
- Pierre Monteux edition ; 7
- Standardized Title:
- Coppélia. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Ballets--Excerpts.
- Ballets.
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Coppélia suite.
- Sylvia suite.
- Faust ballet music.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : RCA Victor Gold Seal ; New York, N.Y. : BMG Classics, [1994]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- mono
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Coppélia suite. Prélude : Mazurka ; Scène et valse de Swanhilde ; Czardas ; Scène et valse de la poupée ; Ballade (Alfred Krips, violin) ; Thème slave varié (Manuel Valerio, clarinet)
- Sylvia suite. Prélude : Les chasseresses ; Intermezzo and valse lente ; Pas des Ethiopiens ; Chant bachique ; Pizzicati polka (Alfred Krips, violin) ; Cortége de Bacchus.
- Participant:
- "Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra" -- Cf. inner program notes, p. 5 (1st-2nd works) ; San Francisco Symphony (3rd work) ; Pierre Monteux, conductor.
- Notes:
- RCA Victor Gold Seal: 09026-61975-2 (on inner container: 9026-61975-2)
- On outer container: BMG Classics: 9026-61893-2 (on notes in outer container: 09026-61893-2)
- The 1st-2nd works selections from ballets, the 3rd from the opera, "an afterthought composed to satisfy the Paris Opéra" -- Preface to the Dover edition of the full score, 1994.
- The 1st work recorded Dec. 2, 4, 1953, Manhattan Center, New York, the 2nd Dec. 30-31, Symphony Hall, Boston, and the 3rd Dec. 22, 1947, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco.
- The 3rd work released for the first time on this disc.
- Compact disc.
- Analog recordings.
- Durations: 25:34; 26:31; 14:34.
- Program notes, principally about the conductor's involvement with the pieces on this recording, by Richard Freed (7 p. : port.) inserted in inner container; notes about the conductor by John Canarina and Herb Caen, and reminiscences by Leon Fleisher, Erich Kunzel, Marcel Landowski, André Previn, and David Zinman, all in English, French, and German (79 p. : ill.) inserted in outer container.
- Contains:
- Delibes, Léo, 1836-1891. Sylvia. Selections
- Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust. Ballet
- OCLC:
- 32980578
- Publisher Number:
- 09026-61975-2 RCA Victor Gold Seal
- 9026-61975-2 RCA Victor Gold Seal
- 9026-61893-2 BMG Classics
- 09026-61893-2 BMG Classics
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