Richard Bonynge - The Complete Ballet Recordings - Box Set 45CDs

Label : Decca

Format : Wav

Cover : Yes

On the occasion of Richard Bonynge's 90th birthday on 29 September 2020 and his spectacular ballet recordings, this comprehensive edition is published on Decca: it is a unique encyclopedia of ballet and at the same time a tribute to the legendary conductor. 

The collection includes well-known scores by Tchaikovsky and Delibes and other works that Bonynge has conducted throughout his career, including Adam, Massenet and Offenbach, as well as rare ballet music and dance sequences from the opera world of Donizetti, Gounod, Verdi, Rossini and Berlioz. 

This collection contains the first CD release of the Bat Overture from Bonynge's ballet music arrangements by Johann Strauss. The cello concerts of Massenet, Auber and Popper are included as an attractive bonus.Initially perceived primarily as the husband of the great Joan Sutherland, Bonynge quickly stepped out of their shadows: during his illustrious career, Australian Richard Bonynge has worked at the leading opera houses in Europe, and Australia, as well as in the Far East. 

Maestro Bonynge was an active innovator of ballet, as well as a master of the belcanto opera, which he contributed significantly to the renaissance. This two-part, unique ballet collection includes 45 CDs, a 144-page booklet with informative liner notes and synopses by Paul Westcott and Mark Pullinger, new illustrations and detailed reproductions of the original record cover 

CD1 Adam: Le Diable à Quatre; Leoni: The Prayer & the Sword

CD2-3 Adam: Giselle

CD4-5 Adam: Giselle

CD6-7 Adam: Le Corsaire

CD8 Auber: Marco Spada

CD9 Auber: Gustave III – Overture & Ballet Music; Cello Concerto

CD10 Burgmüller: La Péri

CD11 Chopin: Les Sylphides; Thomas: Hamlet – ballet music; Verdi: Trovatore ballet music

CD12-13 Delibes: Coppélia + Favourite Overtures of the 18th Century

CD14-15 Delibes: Coppélia + French Opera Overtures

CD16-17 Delibes: Sylvia

CD18 Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes et Dramatiques; Cendrillon Marche; Fantasy for Cello & Orchestra

CD19 Massenet: Cigale; Valse tres lente; Le Cid

CD20-21 Massenet: Manon

CD22 Massenet: Thais Meditation; Berlioz: Les Troyens Ballet music; Weber: L’invitation a la Valse; Lecocq: La Fille de de Madame Angot; Donizetti: La Favorita – ballet music

CD23 Messager: Les Deux pigeons

CD24-25 Minkus/Delibes: La Source; Drigo: La Flûte Magique

CD26-27 Minkus-Lanchbery: La Bayadère; Gounod: Faust Ballet Music

CD28 Offenbach: Le Papillon; Popper: Cello Concerto

CD29-30 J Strauss II: Aschenbrodel; Ritter Pasman; Le Beau Danube; Bal de Vienne; Overture Die Fledermaus

CD31-32 Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker; Handel: Alcina Ballet Act 2; Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique fantasque; Britten: Soirées musicales suite; Matinées musicales

CD33-34 Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

CD35-37 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty

CD38-39 Art of the Prima Ballerina

CD40-41 Homage to Pavlova

CD42 Pas de Deux; Meyerbeer: Les Patineur

CD43 Ballet Music & Entr’actes from French Opera

CD44-45 Ballet Gala

Complete tracklist : Richard Bonynge - The Complete Ballet Recordings