Antole Fistoulari conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden performing Sir William Walton's Façade and Charles Alexandre Lecocq's Mamzelle Angot. Working with the Royal Ballet Orchestra in Covent Garden under Fistoulari, engineer Ken Cross and producer Michael Williamson created another Decca/RCA masterpiece. It's hard to know where to begin with a record this good. The top — the high end — of this recording is simply as well recorded as any RCA there is.
Undeniable transparency, snap, detail and body on cymbals, bells and woodblocks. The same virtues, along with the added virtue of harmonic richness extends into the midrange. Strings are sweet, diaphanous, transparent and a bit bright, without being irritating. Brass and woodwinds — which in this piece carry much of the thematic load — are particularly well reproduced.
Tracklist:
Walton, Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden, Anatole Fistoulari
Façade (Suites For Orchestra)
1-1 – Fanfare (Suite 2, No. 1)
1-2 – Scotch Rhapsody (Suite 2, No. 2)
1-3 – Valse (Suite 1, No. 2)
2-1 – Tango Pasodoble (Suite 1, No. 4)
2-2 – Swiss Yodelling Song (Suite 1, No. 3)
3-1 – Country Dance (Suite 2, No. 3)
3-2 – Polka (Suite 1, No. 1)
3-3 – Noche Espagnole (Suite 2, No. 4)
4-1 – Popular Song (Suite 2, No. 5)
4-2 – Old Sir Faulk (Suite 2, No. 6)
4-3 – Tarantella Sevillana (Suite 1, No. 5)
Lecocq, Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden, Anatole Fistoulari
Suite From The Ballet - Mamzelle Angot
5-1 – Overture
5-2 – Act I No. 3: Mazurka
5-3 – No. 5: Tempo Di Marcia
5-4 – Act II No. 8: Tempo Di Gavotte
5-5 – No. 11
5-6 – Act III: No. 13: Finale
Composed By – Lecocq (tracks: 5), Walton (tracks: 1-4)
Conductor – Anatole Fistoulari
Orchestra – Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden
Orchestrated By, Arranged By – Gordon Jacob (tracks: 5)
Recording information:
Title: Façade / Mamzelle Angot
Composer: Sir William Walton, Charles Lecocq
Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari
Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden
Genre: Classical
Media: 1x Hybrid SACD Stereo , Remastered, . Playable on SACD player or standard CD player
Label: Analogue Productions
Cat#: CAPC-2285-SA
Released: 2017 in US
Original release: 1959 by RCA Victor LSC-2285
EAN: 0753088228568
Discogs rel.#: 13895846
