Composer: Adolphe Charles Adam
Orchestra: Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574342-43
Release: 2022
Size: 559 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
La jolie fille de Gand
CD 01
01. Introduction
Act I Tableau 1 “Cesarius’s Shop”
02. Scene 1
03. Scene 2
04. Scene 3
05. Scene 4
06. Scene 5
Act I Tableau 2 “The Main Square in Ghent”
07. Louré
08. Marche
09. Après la marche
Act I Tableau 2 “The Main Square in Ghent”, Divertissement
10. No. 1, —
11. No. 2, Pas de trois
12. No. 3a, Pas de deux
13. No. 3b. Pas de deux
14. No. 4, Valse
Act I Tableau 3 “Beatrix’s Bedroom”
15. Andantino moderato
CD 02
Act II Tableau 1 “Boudoir in the Palace of the Marquis in Venice”
01. Scene 1
02. Scene 2
03. Scene 3
04. Scene 4
05. Scene 5
Act II Tableau 2 “Ball Room in the Palace”
06. Pas comique
07. Cracovienne
08. Pas seul
09. Pas de Béatrix
Act II Tableau 3 “Ball Room”
10. Galopp final
11. Après le galopp
Act III Tableau 1 “The Park of the Marquis’s Villa”
12. Allegro moderato marcato
13. Pas seul
14. Danse
15. Après la danse
16. Allegro moderato
Act III Tableau 2 “A Boudoir in the Palace”
17. Andantino moderato
18. Allegro mosso
Act III Tableau 3 “The Square in a Village Near Ghent”
19. No. 1a, Andantino non troppo
20. No. 1b, Allegro louré
21. No. 2a, Andante – Allegro
22. No. 2b, Après le divertissement comique
After increasing successes with ballets, melodramas and theatrical works, Adolphe Adam won widespread acclaim with Giselle. A year later he wrote La Jolie fille de Gand, which was received just as enthusiastically by audiences and critics alike. This delightful ballet-pantomime with trademark thematic brilliance is set in Ghent and Venice, its plot one of abduction and romance. Adam’s score, which features the use of cornets and the tuba-like ophicleide, displays a more daring sense of colour than that of Giselle.