Tommasini: Le donne di buon umore ("The Good-Humored Ladies"')

ballet suite based on harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti

Poulenc: Les Biches, ballet suite

Roger Désormière, conductor

DESCRIPTION: 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm. 12 in., mono, ffrr

NOTES: Recorded 15-20 June 1951, Maison de la Mutualité.  John Culshaw, producer; Kenneth Wilkinson, engineer.  Matrix numbers ARL.1279 - ARL.1280

 Decca LXT 2720 ℗ September 1952 (d. l. 16 February 1953) @Discogs

= London LLP 624. 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in. $5.95 Notes, synopsis by Roy Budden on container  [rev. October 1952ff.]  or LL

LPs:

Decca Ace of Clubs ACL 219 (1964), with Walton: Façade (Irving / LSO)

CDs:

Le donne in Roger Désormière: Ibert / . . . Ippolitov-Ivanov . . . etc. Testament SBT 1309 (2003). With Ibert Divertissement (q. v.) and Tchaikovsky, Ippolitov-Ivanov suites (q. v.)

Les Biches in Roger Désormière: Poulenc . . . / Delibes . . . etc. Testament SBT 1294 (2003). With Coppélia and Sylvia suites (q.v.). 

In Roger Désormière: Complete Decca Recordings (4 CDs), Decca Eloquence 4840416 (2020), CD 1, tr. 9-13 (Tommasini), CD 2, tr. 16-21 (Poulenc)

STREAMING:

Spotify, Apple, YouTube, BnF Gallica (excerpt)

INDEX: 1951-06-15     %%