Handel (arr. W[illiam] G[illies] Whittaker): Alcina Suite

Dream Music / Musique de reve — Ballet Music — Entrance and Tamburino

Dream sequence:

[1. Entrée des rêves agréables / Entrance of the Agreeable Dreams — 2. Entrée des rëves manaçant /

Entrance of the Menacing Dreams — 3. Entrance of the Agreeable Frightened Dreams — 4. Combats

des rëves heureux et des rëves tristes / Combat of the Dreams, Sad and Agreeable. English titles from LP.]

Felix Weingartner, conductor

DESCRIPTION: 2 discs, 78 rpm, 12 in.

NOTES: Recorded 21 July 1939, Th. des Champs-Elysées. Matrix nos. CLX 2189-1, 2190-1, 2191-2, 2192-1. Durations (from BnF digital: 04:12, 02:56, Duration of "Musique de sommeil" (from CD): 07:21.

See The Musical Times, Vol. 82, No. 1180 (Jun., 1941), pp. 222-225

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• Columbia Graphophone LX 918-­919. Blue label. Made in England. Label says arr. D. Whittaker. Digitzied with images @BnF.
  • = Columbia fr. LFX 739-740 (d. l. 1 September 1947). In French, fabriqué en France. Digitized with images @BnF.
  • = Columbia set 164
  • As LP in The Art of Felix Weingartner (Tristan act III prelude; Tannhäuser act III prelude; Marche troyenne; Wine, Women, and Song; Alcina suite; Rienzi overture, all q. v.; [also works of Beethoven, Liszt, Strauss, Jr., and Brahms / LSO, British SO, and Vienna PO]): His Master's Voice HLM 7072-74 (RLS 717) (3 LPs).
  • Dream music as CD in L'Héritage de Felix Weingartner, vol. 4: LYS 096, tr. 1. 1996.

LYS 096