Ernest Ansermet conducts Falla & Debussy

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Listening to Ansermet’s early 1960s version of The Three-Cornered Hat, you understand why his recordings are cherished by audiophiles: the sound is glitteringly brilliant and full. The performance... — Penguin Guide More…

Release Date: 8th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: ELQ4807839
Label: Eloquence
Length: 77 minutes

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Falla: El sombrero de tres picos - Part 1

Work length14:22

Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-02-17
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Introduction

Track length1:35

Afternoon

Track length5:04

Dance Of The Miller's Wife

Track length3:37

The Grapes

Track length4:06

Falla: El sombrero de tres picos - Part 2

Work length22:27

Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-02-17
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Dance of the Neighbours

Track length3:13

The Miller's Dance

Track length7:35

The Corregidor's Dance

Track length5:23

Final dance

Track length6:16

Excerpt, Falla: La vida breve

Work length7:10

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-02-17
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Interlude - Spanish Dance No. 1

Track length7:10

Excerpt, Debussy: Images for orchestra, L. 122

Work length7:30

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-03-13
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Gigues

Track length7:30

Debussy: Images for orchestra: II. Ibéria

Work length18:15

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-03-13
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Par les rues et par les chemins

Track length6:51

2. Les parfums de la nuit

Track length7:10

3. Le matin d'un jour de fête

Track length4:14

Excerpt, Debussy: Images for orchestra, L. 122

Work length7:54

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-03-13
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

3. Rondes de printemps

Track length7:54

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During the war, Falla wrote a pantomime ballet titled El Corregidor y la Molinera (‘The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife’) based on a novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, was at the 1917 premiere. Liking what he saw, Diaghilev imagined that the ballet, with modifications, would be perfect for his then eight-year-old company. Falla accepted the commission, and the new ballet, now called El sombrero de tres picos (‘The Three-Cornered Hat’) was premiered in London in 1919. Diaghilev had intended to have Falla himself conduct the ballet, but the composer quickly realized that he was not up to the task, and so the responsibility went to 35-year-old Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet, who had conducted the Ballets Russes since 1915.

It has been stunningly re-mastered for this reissue and is coupled with Debussy’s highly picturesque triptych “Images”. This continues the much-lauded Ansermet Legacy on Decca which has systematically mined the Decca archive for re-issues of much valuable material, some of it released on CD for the first time.

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Listening to Ansermet’s early 1960s version of The Three-Cornered Hat, you understand why his recordings are cherished by audiophiles: the sound is glitteringly brilliant and full. The performance has lots of character and shows the conductor and his orchestra on top form […] the Interlude and Dance from La vida breve is especially vivid here.

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