Composer: Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson
Performer: Clive Bayley
Orchestra: English Northern Philharmonia, Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8555222
Release: 2021
Size: 295 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
The Triumph of Neptune
01. Prelude
02. Schottische
03. Cloudland
04. Scherzo “Farewell”
05. Adagio “The Frozen Forest”
06. Var. 1
07. Var. 2
08. Var. 3
09. Var. 4
10. Coda
11. Hornpipe
12. Polka
13 .Intermezzo “Sunday Morning”
14. Entry of Neptune’s Chariot
15. Dance of the Fairy Princess
16. Harlequinade
17.Variation
18. Hor npipe
19. Apotheosis
L’uomo dai baffi
20. Strada d’oro
21. Intermezzo I (Orch. P. Lane)
22. Ballerina azzurra
23 .Danze ubbriache
24. Tope bianchi
25. Intermezzo II (Orch. P. Lane)
26. Pioggia di sigarette
Valses bourgeoises
27. No. 1, Valse brillante
28. No. 2, Valse caprice
29. No. 3, Strauss, Strauss et Straus
30. Champagne Charlie “Polka”
Lord Berners’ early music was avant\-garde in style earning the admiration of Stravinsky, and while it was soon to become more accessible, it never lost its distinctive style and flavour. The Triumph of Neptune is one of his major works and his most ambitious ballet score, commissioned by Diaghilev with choreography by Balanchine. A ballet\-pantomime\-harlequinade, its inconsequential plot features music as diverse as it is brilliantly inventive. Luomo dai baffi is a delicious ballet for puppets with stripped\-back instrumentation, and Philip Lanes deft orchestrations of Valses bourgeoises and Polka offer ripe wit.