Alexander Gibson – Gounod: Faust – Ballet Music / Bizet: Carmen – Suite – Analogue Productions LP

Description

Analogue Productions decided for this reissue to press from the Bernie Grundman parts that were used earlier for the Classic Records edition.

Plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings

Tip-on jacket by Stoughton Printing

Widely regarded as one of the great RCAs. Alexander Gibson conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, performing ballet music from Charles Gounod’s Faust and Georges Bizet’s Carmen Suite. Featuring orchestral highlights from Faust and Carmen, the later selections on Side 2 are nothing short of spectacular. Outstanding clarity and stereo stage. Transparency and imaging is superb.

Recorded in Kingsway Hall, London
Producer: Ray Minshull
Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson

Side 1
Ballet Must From Faust
1. Waltz (Allegretto)
2. Ensemble (Adagio)
3. Dance of the Nubians
4. Cleopatras Dance
5. Dance of the Trojan Maidens
6. Helens Dance
7. Bacchanalia

8. Funeral March Of A Marionette

Side 2
Carmen Suite
9. Carmen Suite
– Prelude; Entracte Aragonaise
– Habanera; Changing of the Guard
– Intermezzo; Smugglers March
– Entracte Dragoons of Alcala