After increasing successes with ballets, melodramas and theatrical works, Adolphe Adam won widespread acclaim with Giselle (highlights can be heard on 8.572924). 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.
Disc 1
Adam, Adolphe
La jolie fille de Gand
1 Introduction 02:09
2 Act I Tableau 1, "Cesarius's Shop": Scene 1 03:47
3 Act I Tableau 1, "Cesarius's Shop": Scene 2 02:32
4 Act I Tableau 1, "Cesarius's Shop": Scene 3 01:21
5 Act I Tableau 1, "Cesarius's Shop": Scene 4 02:08
6 Act I Tableau 1, "Cesarius's Shop": Scene 5 04:26
7 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Loure 03:30
8 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Marche 05:37
9 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Après la Marche 03:47
10 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Divertissement: No. 1 04:24
11 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Divertissement: No. 2. Pas de trois 06:11
12 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Divertissement: No. 3. Pas de deux 07:34
13 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Divertissement: No. 3b. Pas de deux 06:08
14 Act I Tableau 2, "The Main Square in Ghent": Divertissement: No. 4. Valse 02:09
15 Act I Tableau 3, "Beatrix's Bedroom": Andantino moderato 10:12
Disc 2
1 Act II Tableau 1, "Boudoir in the Palace of the Marquis in Venice": Scene 1 01:32
2 Act II Tableau 1, "Boudoir in the Palace of the Marquis in Venice": Scene 2 01:32
3 Act II Tableau 1, "Boudoir in the Palace of the Marquis in Venice": Scene 3 03:26
4 Act II Tableau 1, "Boudoir in the Palace of the Marquis in Venice": Scene 4 01:50
5 Act II Tableau 1, "Boudoir in the Palace of the Marquis in Venice": Scene 5 02:50
6 Act II Tableau 2, "Ball Room in the Palace": Pas comique 03:10
7 Act II Tableau 2, "Ball Room in the Palace": Cracovienne 03:10
8 Act II Tableau 2, "Ball Room in the Palace": Pas seul 02:56
9 Act II Tableau 2, "Ball Room in the Palace": Pas de Béatrix 04:45
10 Act II Tableau 3, "Ball Room": Galopp Final 03:53
11 Act II Tableau 3, "Ball Room": Après le Galopp 03:35
12 Act III Tableau 1, "The Park of the Marquis's Villa": Allegro moderato marcato 04:17
13 Act III Tableau 1, "The Park of the Marquis's Villa": Pas seul 01:40
14 Act III Tableau 1, "The Park of the Marquis's Villa": Danse 01:09
15 Act III Tableau 1, "The Park of the Marquis's Villa": Après la Danse 06:51
16 Act III Tableau 1, "The Park of the Marquis's Villa": Allegro moderato 02:16
17 Act III Tableau 2, "A Boudoir in the Palace": Andantino moderato 02:21
18 Act III Tableau 2, "A Boudoir in the Palace": Allegro mosso 02:45
19 Act III Tableau 3, "The Square in a Village near Ghent": No. 1. Andantino non troppo - 00:57
20 Act III Tableau 3, "The Square in a Village near Ghent": No. 1. Allegro louré 01:34
21 Act III Tableau 3, "The Square in a Village near Ghent": No. 2. Andante - Allegro - 03:00
22 Act III Tableau 3, "The Square in a Village near Ghent": No. 2. Après le Divertissement comique 07:29
