Here's the suite from The Good-Humoured Ladies, recorded in November 1920 by Ernest Ansermet's successor at the Ballets Russes - Mr. A. C. Boult. It was his first recording.
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Promising lad! Where did you find the original, Pabs?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
Fascinating - the start of a very long and productive recording (and conducting) career. The Scarlatti- Tommasini not a regular in the repertoire nowadays but I was listening to the Desormiere recording recently displayed with Gallic charm thanks to the PCO and Decca!Comment
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I found this picture of the original 1917 stage design (Leon Bakst):
PS: Ah! It features in the video, at the start of the Allegro (third movement).
I should have watched it first.
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A friend at the BIRS (more than 30 years ago now) got me several non-copyright recordings. There's also Boult's second recording session (16 November 1920) when he recorded a cut version of the "Shropshire Lad" Rhapsody - the first recording of any Butterworth:Originally posted by french frank View Post
Boult was very important in the Butterworth story. Consider - as President of the Oxford University Musical Society he organised the 1911 concert with the premiere of 10 of the Shropshire Lad songs. He also sang four of them a few days later (he was a singer). Then he gave the 1st performance of The Banks of Green Willow in 1914 in his first professional concert as a conductor. Then he made the first recording. Then he was first to play Butterworth abroad - in Prague and Madrid in the 1920s.Comment
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And here's Boult's third-ever recording, from 1921. Another Ballets Russes score.
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