Adam - Le Diable a quatre, Overtures
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4828603
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 28th September 2018
Contents
Works
GiraldaLe Toreador
Artists
London Symphony OrchestraNew Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
Conductor
Richard BonyngeWorks
GiraldaLe Toreador
Artists
London Symphony OrchestraNew Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
Conductor
Richard BonyngeAbout
With two recordings of Giselle and a critically acclaimed recording of the opera Le Toréador, Bonynge has been Adam’s most distinguished modern advocate on records; Eloquence has also reissued his 1990 recording of Le Corsaire (ELQ4828605), Adam’s final ballet score before his early death from a heart attack, aged just 52, in 1856. This new anthology includes the overture from Le Toréador as one of the substantial bonus items to a little known two-act ballet, Le Diable à quatre.
This was made in 1964 with the luxurious support of the London Symphony Orchestra and the legendary Decca producer Christopher Raeburn behind the glass. The Decca recording team captured the delicious, piquant colours of this music – conveyed with such flair by Bonynge – in vivid detail.
Opening this new collection are two overtures from even more obscure productions, Giralda and La Poupée de Nuremberg. These were serendipitously recorded as part of an album of ‘French Romantic Overtures’ with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in March 1969: the conductor had been working with the English Chamber Orchestra on a new recording of Messiah with his wife, Dame Joan Sutherland, when vocal indisposition required her to fly home to Switzerland. During the studio time allotted for her to make a new recital album, this frothy collection of overtures was concocted, and although it has never been reissued complete on CD, it scored a hit with the public as Adam’s music so reliably does.
‘Lots of pretty tunes and um-cha accompaniments nicely played and well recorded.’ – Gramophone, November 1965 (Le Diable à quatre)
‘Richard Bonynge’s ability to persuade Decca to record out-of-the-way 19th-century French stage works has been to our repeated benefit over the past 40 years. Yet few of the results have been more welcome than this delightful operatic soufflé.’ – Gramophone, April 1998 (Le Toréador)
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