Περιγραφή
Malcolm Henry Arnold:Tam O'Shanter, Op. 51
Charles François Gounod:Faust – Ballet MusicFuneral March of a Marionette (March funèbre d'une marionette, Marionettenmarsch)
Engelbert Humperdinck:Hänsel & Gretel: Witch's Ride (Hexenritt)
Franz Liszt:Scenes from Lenau's "Faust", S.110
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky:A Night on the Bare Mountain (Walpurgisnacht, Walpurgis Night, Night on the Bald Mountain, St. John's Night, Una notte sul Monte Calvo)Pictures at an Exhibition: The Gnome (Gnomus)
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns:Danse macabre, Op. 40
Καλλιτέχνες
New Symphony Orchestra of London (Ορχήστρα)Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra (Ορχήστρα)Sir Alexander Gibson (Μαέστρος)
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Issued in the US under the title ‘Witches’ Brew’, Alexander Gibson and the New Symphony Orchestra of London recorded this album in 1959 and the performances remain today as characterful and incisive as they were then. While pieces from this recording have previously appeared on Decca, this is its first complete release on the label. Given that the music is a kind of Halloween concoction, it is now filled out on this reissue for CD with two supernatural pieces by Gounod – his ‘Funeral March of a Marionette’ and the sparkling Ballet Music for ‘Faust’, both recorded in 1964 – and which have come up sizzlingly well on CD. |
