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BERNERS: Wedding Bouquet / Luna Park / March - RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTÉ Sinfonietta, K. Alwyn

BERNERS: Wedding Bouquet / Luna Park / March - RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTÉ Sinfonietta, K. Alwyn

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Lord Berners’ compositions, often satirical in intention, include ballets for Diaghilev and for Sadler’s Wells. While his first ballet, The Triumph of Neptune, is an ambitious and inventive example of his art (Naxos 8.555222), the choral ballet A Wedding Bouquet is Berners’ most original and successful work, if somewhat influenced by Stravinsky’s Les Noces. Written to a text by Gertrude Stein and choreographed by Frederick Ashton, this is music full of vivacity, festive brilliance and pathos. Set in a freak show pavilion, Luna Park is a ‘fantastic ballet in one act’, succinctly scored and wittily characterised.

Tracklist
 Artist details
Stein, Gertrude - Lyricist
Berners, Lord (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson)
 A Wedding Bouquet
1 Allegro Brilliant 11:49
2 Tranquillo 06:05
3 Tempo di Valse 09:57
4 Tempo di Tango 05:26
Lane, Philip - Arranger
Berners, Lord (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson)
 March (arr. P. Lane for orchestra)
5 March (arr. P. Lane for orchestra) 01:58
Berners, Lord (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson)
 Luna Park
6 The Four Niches 06:23
7 Adagio 04:14
8 Variation (Mamselle Nikita) 01:41
9 Variation (Serge Lifar) 01:09
10 Coda 03:04

Total Playing Time: 51:46
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