Homage To Pavlova

Delibes’s Naïla Intermezzo … has one catching one’s breath […] John Georgiadis makes a superb showing in his solo items. […] Bonynge savours every item, and the LSO responds loyally. The recording... — Gramophone Magazine, November 1972 More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: ELQ4804877
Label: Eloquence
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

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Luigini: Ballet égyptien, Op.12

Work length21:38

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Part 1

Track length11:11

Part 2

Track length10:27

Excerpt, Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux

Work length3:21

Jascha Silberstein (cello), Marie Goossens (harp)
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Le Cygne

Track length3:21

Excerpt, Massenet: Thaïs

Work length5:44

John Georgiadis (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Méditation

Track length5:44

Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37

Work length4:11

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

12. December (Christmas)

Track length4:11

Rubinstein, A: Feramors - Opera in 3 Acts

Work length5:25

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Danses des fiancées de Cachemir

Track length5:25

Czibulka: Love's dream after the ball, Op.356

Work length4:50

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin

Work length2:10

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Drigo: Le reveil de Flore

Work length28:37

John Georgiadis (violin), Osian Ellis (harp)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Part 1

Track length15:59

Part 2

Track length12:38

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42

Work length4:13

John Georgiadis (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

3. Mélodie in E Flat

Track length4:13

Asafyev: Papillons

Work length1:38

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Lincke: Glow-worm (Gavotte Pavlova)

Work length7:13

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Delibes: Naïla

Work length3:51

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Intermezzo

Track length3:51

Catalani: Loreley / Act 2

Work length7:05

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Danza delle ondine

Track length7:05

Karol Krupinski: Polish Wedding

Work length3:03

London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
Recorded: 1969-12-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Mazurka

Track length3:03

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While Richard Bonynge has long been associated with opera, particularly with that of the Bel Canto age, he has been one of the most active revivers and conductors of ballet in the 20th and 21st centuries. His recordings of the major Romantic classical ballet scores have been critically acclaimed, but he has also been responsible for making – often – the single recording of many ballet masterpieces that disappeared from view, and in doing so, showing just how worthy was their revival. There were three classic ballet ‘bon-bon’ LPs he recorded in the 1960s – Homage to Pavlova, Pas de deux and The Art of the Prima Ballerina. All are now reissued on Decca Eloquence.

Homage to Pavlova, a lavish 2-LP set, here appears as per the original LP coupling, with illustrations and detailed notes. For more than twenty years – roughly between 1909 and 1931 in which year she died – Anna Pavlova’s name was synonymous with ballet for hundreds of thousands who saw her dance but who had never heard of the great, contemporaneous Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and would not have understood it if they had; and for millions of others who never saw her but for whom her name was a household word. Pavlova’s debut was recorded by Valerian Svetloff, one of the foremost critics of the time with the praise: ‘Slender and graceful as a reed, and as supple, with the ingenuous face of a girl of southern Spain, ethereal and light, she seemed like a fragile and elegant Sèvres statuette … Here was something individual, something that was not learned at school. In the solo variation one already felt something more, something that made it possible for one, without posing as a prophet, to foresee in the youthful dancer a great future artist.’

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November 1972

Delibes’s Naïla Intermezzo … has one catching one’s breath […] John Georgiadis makes a superb showing in his solo items. […] Bonynge savours every item, and the LSO responds loyally. The recording is predictably excellent.

Homage To Pavlova

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