Berners: A Wedding Bouquet - Luna Park - March / Alwyn, RTÉ Sinfonietta, RTÉ Chamber Choir

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 22, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERNERS, LORD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Rte Chamber Choir, Rte Sinfonietta
    • PERFORMER
      Alwyn
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 22, 2021
    • UPC
      747313522323
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8555223
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Allegro Brilliant

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    2. Tranquillo

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    3. Tempo di Valse

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    4. Tempo di Tango

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    5. March (arr. P. Lane for orchestra)

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    6. The Four Niches

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    7. Adagio

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    8. Variation (Mamselle Nikita)

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    9. Variation (Serge Lifar)

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn

    10. Coda

      Composer: Lord Berners

      Ensemble: RTÉ Sinfonietta

      Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn


Lord Berners’ compositions, often satirical in intention, include ballets for Diaghilev and for Sadler’s Wells. While his first ballet, The Triumph of Neptune, is an ambitious and inventive example of his art (Naxos 8.555222), the choral ballet A Wedding Bouquet is Berners’ most original and successful work, if somewhat influenced by Stravinsky’s Les Noces. Written to a text by Gertrude Stein and choreographed by Frederick Ashton, this is music full of vivacity, festive brilliance and pathos. Set in a freak show pavilion, Luna Park is a ‘fantastic ballet in one act’, succinctly scored and wittily characterized.