Led by Laurance Turner
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Gretry's opera L'Epreuve villageoise, from which this ballet music comes, is founded on the story of the devoted couple whose affection was all the stronger after each in turn had found the other out in a moment of infidelity.
L'Epreuve villageoise was one of over fifty operas of Gretry which were successfully produced in Paris during his life-time (1741-1813). Gritry has been called ' the Moliere of music'.
Suite No. 3, La Nursery......Inghelbrecht
1 Nous n'irons plus au bois. 2 La Tour prends garde. 3 Bon voyage, Monsieur Dumollet. 4 Sur le Pont d'Avignon. 5 Ou est la Marguerite ? 6 Arlequin marie sa fille
Two Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 Grieg
1 Evening in the Mountains. 2 At the Cradle
Three Impromptus, Op. 78 Coleridge-Taylor
1 Allegro ma non troppo. 2 Molto moderato. 3 Allegro molto
Polichinelle, Op. 3, No. 4... Rachmaninoff