HEROLD - LANCHBERRY - LA FILLE MAL GARDEE - LANCHBERY (NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION 180G 45RPM 2LP)

Herold-Lanchbery La Fille Mal Gardee on Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP from ORG

Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original Analog Master Tapes & Pressed at RTI

Numbered Deluxe Laminated Gatefold Jackets

Only 2500 Numbered Limited Edition Copies Worldwide!

Herold and Lanchbery's most celebrated recording, La Fille mal gardee! Mastered from the original master tapes by the one-and-only Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180g 45RPM 2LP at RTI.

John Lanchbery was an English conductor and composer famous for his ballet arrangements, especially those for The Royal Ballet. Lanchbery was principal conductor with The Royal Ballet for thirteen years starting in 1959.

Undoubtedly, Lanchbery’s most celebrated recording, in both highlights and later a complete form, is of his music for Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. Sir Frederick Ashton was a leading international dancer and choreographer, who is most noted as the founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London.

The French composer Hérold usually takes all the credit, but Lanchbery’s selection is far more elaborate than that attribution might suggest. Herold was a French opera composer, now best known for the delightful ballet score for La Fille mal gardée (1828).

Born just over a year before Rossini, he did much to make ballet music more important in its own right. At the time it was the norm to to make ballet scores entirely out of existing opera melodies and popular tunes. Hérold is only one of at least half a dozen composers whose music went towards giving La fille mal gardée as we know it today its special flavor.

Herold-Lanchbery La Fille Mal Gardee Track Listing:

LP1
1. Introduction/Dance of the Cock and Hens/Lise and the Ribbon/Thomas and Alain
2. Picnic/Flute Dance/Quarrel/The Fanny Ellsler Pas-de-Deux
(a) Introduction
(b) Girl's Solo
(c) Adage
(d) Man's Solo
(e) Coda

LP2
1. Simone/Clog Dance/Maypole Dance/Storm and Finale (Act I)/Spinning/Tambourine Dance
2. Harvesters/Thomas, Alain and the Notaries/Pas-de-Deux/Finale