Ernest Ansermet and the Ballets Russes

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4824989
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Première partie

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Les Choeurs de la Radio Suisse Romande (Lausanne), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1965-05
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Introduction et danse religieuse

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2. Scène - Danse générale

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3. Danse grotesque de Dorcon

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4. Danse légère et gracieuse de Daphnis

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5. Scène - Danse de Lyceion - Scène (Les pirates)

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6. Scène - Danse lente et mystérieuse

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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Deuxième partie

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Les Choeurs de la Radio Suisse Romande (Lausanne), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1965-05
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

7. Introduction

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8. Danse guerrière

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9. Scène - Danse suppliante de Chloé

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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57 / Troisième partie

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Les Choeurs de la Radio Suisse Romande (Lausanne), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1965-05
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

10. Lever du jour - Scène

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11. Daphnis et Chloé miment l'aventure de Pan et Syrinx

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12. Danse générale

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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1957-10
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Debussy: Jeux - Poème dansé

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1958-05
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Stravinsky: Pulcinella

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Carlo Franzini (tenor), Marilyn Tyler (soprano), Boris Carmeli (bass)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1965-11
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Ouverture: Allegro moderato

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2. Serenata: Larghetto: "Mentre l'erbetta"

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3. Scherzino: Allegro

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4. Allegro

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5. Andantino

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6. Allegro

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7. Ancora poco meno: "Contento forse vivere"

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8. Allegro assai

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9. Allegro - alla breve: "Con queste paroline"

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10. "Sento dire no'ncè pace" - "Una te fa la zembrece"

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13. Allegro - alla breve

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14. Tarantella

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15. Andantino: "Se tu m'ami"

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16. Allegro

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17. Gavotta con due variazioni

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18 Vivo

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19. Tempo di minuetto: "Pupillette, fiammette d'amore"

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20. Allegro assai

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Stravinsky: Les Noces - Première Partie

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Robert Aubert (piano), Basia Retchitzka (soprano), Doris Rossiaud (piano), Vladimir Diakoff (bass), Reinhard Peters (piano), Hugues Cuénod (tenor), Lucienne Devallier (contralto), Heinz Rehfuss (baritone), Jacques Horneffer (piano)
Motet de Genève, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-02
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Premier Tableau: "La Tresse"

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2. Deuxième Tableau: Chez le Marié

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3. Troisième Tableau: Le Départ de la Mariée

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Stravinsky: Les Noces - Deuxième Partie

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Robert Aubert (piano), Basia Retchitzka (soprano), Doris Rossiaud (piano), Vladimir Diakoff (bass), Reinhard Peters (piano), Hugues Cuénod (tenor), Lucienne Devallier (contralto), Heinz Rehfuss (baritone), Jacques Horneffer (piano)
Motet de Genève, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-02
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

4. Quatrième Tableau: Le Repas de Noces

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Ravel: La Valse

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1963-04
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

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A generous collection of classic Decca stereo recordings, illuminating the idiomatic sympathy of the Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet for ballet music and specifically the scores commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes.

The Eloquence label has undertaken a thorough-going re-examination of the recorded legacy of Ernest Ansermet, including reissues of repertoire with which he is no longer associated such as symphonies by Schumann (4800078), Sibelius (48000044) and Prokofiev (4800834). His Beethoven (4800391) has always been admired for its thrilling energy and sure sense of direction; nevertheless, it was on the music of French, and French-accented Russian composers, that his reputation was most securely founded. A 4CD set has already catalogued his first recordings of important works by Stravinsky (4803775) along with his mono recordings of Debussy (4800127) and Ravel (4428321).

Now for the first time his later stereo recordings of Diaghilev ballets are brought together on a generously filled 2CD set including the Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Jeux, Daphnis et Chloé, La Valse, a complete Pulcinella and Les Noces (sung in French with a Swiss-French cast). A new booklet appreciation by François Hudry places into context Ansermet’s special understanding and inside knowledge of these scores and the Parisian milieu from which they sprang. Indeed, he had vivid memories of conducting the company on a tour of the US, including 105 performances in 105 days.

In 1909, when still a young man, Ansermet wrote that ‘Debussy’s work seems to me the most important musical phenomenon since Wagner and the Russians ... His influence is neither to be wished nor feared, it cannot be avoided.’ Together with Ravel and Stravinsky, Debussy was the composer Ansermet conducted most, and he took their music all over the world. La valse in particular became a calling-card: In 1921, after listening to Ansermet conduct the work, Ravel immediately wrote to him: ‘You understand La valse perfectly. I have never been able to obtain such rhythmic suppleness in Paris.’

‘The recording of Les Noces is… extremely fine.’ High Fidelity, March 1962

‘Ansermet... makes all other conductors seem a bit heavy and coarse by comparison’ Fanfare, May/June 1986 (Daphnis et Chloé)

‘Ansermet's gorgeous stereo recording [is] a marvel of flexible pacing and atmosphere.’ Fanfare, July/August 2004 (Jeux)

Ernest Ansermet and the Ballets Russes

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