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The highlights in this decently-performed compilation from ballet conductor Robert Irving are Lambert’s Horoscope and Walton’s Façade. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4827289
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Gluck: Ballet Suite No.1, Wq.30 - arr. Mottl

Work length18:05

$7.70

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New Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1955-02-15
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1a. Introduction (Don Juan, Wq. 52)

Track length0:20

$1.10

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1b. Air gai - Lento - Air gai (Iphigénie en Aulide, Wq. 40)

Track length5:02

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2. Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30)

Track length6:58

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3. Musette (Armide, Wq. 45)

Track length1:55

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4a. Air gai (Iphigénie en Aulide, Wq. 40)

Track length1:32

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4b. Sicilienne (Armide, Wq. 45)

Track length0:47

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4c. Air gai (Iphigénie en Aulide, Wq, 40)

Track length1:31

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Gretry: Céphale et Procris - Suite

Work length20:35

$13.20

$18.00

New Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1955-02-15
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Largo - Andante

Track length2:17

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2. Gigue légère

Track length1:23

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3. Pantomime

Track length1:33

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4. Passepied

Track length1:49

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5. Largo

Track length1:50

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6. Pantomime

Track length1:19

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7. Tambourin

Track length2:28

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8. Loure

Track length0:31

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9. Air lent

Track length2:35

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10. Passepied

Track length1:26

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11. Gavotte

Track length0:59

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12. Finale

Track length2:25

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Massenet: Le Cid - Act 2: Ballet Music

Work length18:40

$7.70

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London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1952-07-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Castillane

Track length3:14

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2. Andalouse

Track length2:14

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3. Aragonaise

Track length1:48

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4. Aubade

Track length1:25

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5. Catalane

Track length2:55

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6. Madrilène

Track length3:52

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7. Navarraise

Track length3:12

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Meyerbeer: Les Patineurs - Ballet

Work length21:19

$8.80

$12.00

London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1952-07-16
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Entrée

Track length2:44

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2. Pas seul

Track length1:12

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3. Pas de deux

Track length2:28

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4. Ensemble

Track length5:34

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5. Pas de trois

Track length1:35

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6. Duet

Track length1:31

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7. Pas des patineurs

Track length2:26

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8. Finale

Track length3:49

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Lambert, C: Horoscope - Suite

Work length25:49

$5.50

$7.50

London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1953-02-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Dance Of The Followers Of Leo

Track length4:48

$1.10

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Saraband For the Followers Of Virgo

Track length5:04

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Valse Of the Gemini

Track length4:41

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Bacchanale

Track length4:48

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Invocation To The Moon and FInale

Track length6:28

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2

Work length1:40

$2.20

$3.00

London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1953-03-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Fanfare

Track length0:33

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2. Scotch Rhapsody

Track length1:07

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1

Work length7:02

$3.30

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London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1953-03-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

2. Valse

Track length3:07

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4. Tango-Pasodoble

Track length1:46

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3. Jodelling Song

Track length2:09

$1.10

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2

Work length1:59

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London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1953-03-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

3. Country Dance

Track length1:59

$1.10

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1

Work length1:20

$1.10

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London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1953-03-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Polka

Track length1:20

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2

Work length6:22

$3.30

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London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1953-03-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

4. Noche Espagnole

Track length2:14

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5. Popular Song

Track length2:17

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6. Old Sir Faulk

Track length1:51

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1

Work length2:35

$1.10

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London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1953-03-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

5. Tarantelle Sevillana

Track length2:35

$1.10

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Verdi: The Lady and the Fool - Ballet Suite - arr. Mackerras

Work length16:55

$6.60

$9.00

New Symphony Orchestra
Robert Irving
Recorded: 1955-05
Recording Venue: Carlton Room, London

1. Tarantella

Track length3:07

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2. Pas seul

Track length1:40

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3. Pas de trois (Galop)

Track length1:25

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4. Romantic Pas de deux

Track length4:59

$1.10

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5. Divertissement

Track length2:52

$1.10

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6. Finale

Track length2:52

$1.10

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Robert Irving: the pre-eminent ballet conductor of his day on home turf and vividly captured in Decca’s superbly lifelike late mono sound, with his complete recordings for that label.

Despite bringing the orchestras of both The Royal Ballet and the New York City Ballet to celebrated peaks of brilliance in execution, the conductor Robert Irving left no more than a handful of recordings, nearly all made in the 1950s and 60s. They display his unfailing sensitivity to the needs of dancers, sometimes adopting slower tempi than concert performances but deftly maintaining a lively momentum. The works presented here are a mere fraction of the many important ballet scores Irving was closely associated with during his years at Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Ballet, and the recordings amply demonstrate his gifts for musical nuance and spry agility.

Four Decca LPs have been compiled in their entirety for this newly remastered release. The first of them was recorded in July 1952: selections from Massenet’s Le Cid and Constant Lambert’s polished arrangement of music by Meyerbeer for Frederick Ashton’s ballet Les Patineurs. In the early spring of 1953 there followed another Ashton commission, Lambert’s own Horoscope, and then the two suites from Walton’s Façade, interleaved together in the composer’s own recommended ordering.

On two days in February 1955 Irving and the ‘New Symphony Orchestra’ (a studio band drawn from London’s ever-whirling pool of talented orchestral freelancers) set down a pairing of Gluck and Grétry from the golden age of French classical ballet, the one grave and gracious (including the celebrated ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’), the other more lively and comic in spirit. Irving’s short career with Decca came to a close later that year with The Lady and the Fool, an arrangement by Sir Charles Mackerras of lesser-known Verdi numbers for a ballet at Sadler’s Wells created by John Cranko.

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December 2019

The highlights in this decently-performed compilation from ballet conductor Robert Irving are Lambert’s Horoscope and Walton’s Façade.

Robert Irving - The Decca Recordings

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