Delibes: Ballet Suites Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Neeme Järvi

• Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891): Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts):
• 1 Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts): Les chasseresses 03:08
• 2 Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts): Intermezzo 01:10
• 3 Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts): Valse lente 03:57
• 4 Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts): Pizzicati 02:13
• 5 Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts): Moderato 04:10
• 6 Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts): Strette. Galop 02:27
• 7 Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane (Excerpts): Marche et cortège de Bacchus 06:45
• La source (Excerpts):
• 8 La source (Excerpts): Pas des voiles 03:30
• 9 La source (Excerpts): Variation 01:08
• 10 La source (Excerpts): Danse circassienne 02:58
• 11 La source (Excerpts): Scène dansée 02:17
• 12 La source (Excerpts): Lent 02:28
• 13 La source (Excerpts): Mouvement de valse 04:40
• 14 La source (Excerpts): Pas de Naïla 02:04
• 15 La source (Excerpts): Scène et pas d'action 03:59
• 16 La source (Excerpts): Mazurka 02:53
• 17 La source (Excerpts): Marche dansée et final 02:38
• Coppélia (Excerpts):
• 18 Coppélia (Excerpts): Prélude 04:50
• 19 Coppélia (Excerpts): Valse 02:40
• 20 Coppélia (Excerpts): Thème slave varié 00:45
• 21 Coppélia (Excerpts): Var. 1 00:44
• 22 Coppélia (Excerpts): Var. 2 00:44
• 23 Coppélia (Excerpts): Var. 3 00:40
• 24 Coppélia (Excerpts): Var. 4 02:29
• 25 Coppélia (Excerpts): Var. 5 01:37
• 26 Coppélia (Excerpts): Csárdás 03:14
• 27 Coppélia (Excerpts): Musique des automates 02:13
• 28 Coppélia (Excerpts): Scène 01:24
• 29 Coppélia (Excerpts): Valse de la poupée 02:17
• 30 Coppélia (Excerpts): La prière 02:19
• 31 Coppélia (Excerpts): Danse de fête 01:21
• 32 Coppélia (Excerpts): Galop final 02:59
• Total Runtime 01:22:41

Info for Delibes: Ballet Suites

Neeme Järvi returns to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a dazzling album of suites from the ballets Sylvia, La Source, and Coppélia by Delibes. Born into a musical family, Delibes enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire aged twelve, studying under several professors including Adolphe Adam. He spent the 1850s and early 1860s composing light operettas and working as a church organist, before achieving public recognition for his music for the ballet La Source in 1866. His later ballets Coppélia and Sylvia were key works in the development of modern ballet, giving the music much greater importance than was previously the case. Typical of the period, the plots for these ballets are obscure, convoluted, and complex, but its certainly Delibess talent for lyrical melody and musical expression of a mood or feeling that elevates all three of these scores above their contemporaries indeed Coppélia went on to become the most frequently performed ballet at the Paris Opéra. Delibes was at the forefront of creating orchestral suites from his ballet music (much to the envy of Tchaikovsky, among others), and thus were indeed envisaged to be performed without staging or dancers. On this album Neeme Järvi adds several additional movements to expand upon the suites which appeared in Delibess lifetime.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

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