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Berners - A Wedding Bouquet, March, Luna Park | Naxos 8555223

Berners - A Wedding Bouquet, March, Luna Park

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8555223

Barcode: 0747313522323

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 8th October 2021

Contents

Artists

RTE Chamber Choir
RTE Sinfonietta

Conductor

Kenneth Alwyn

Works

Berners, Lord Gerald

A Wedding Bouquet
Luna Park
March (arr. Philip Lane)

Artists

RTE Chamber Choir
RTE Sinfonietta

Conductor

Kenneth Alwyn

About

Lord Berners’s 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 8555222), the choral ballet A Wedding Bouquet is Berners’s 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.

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