Bliss - Checkmate
Genre:
Ballet
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What a joy to welcome on CD, a major British ballet score (comparable in appeal to Walton's Façade with which, happily, it's coupled). Constant Lambert's Horoscope is a highly individual score... —
Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Bliss: Checkmate & Mêlée Fantasque
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
This is the only available version of the full ballet… almost all the music to the same high, full-blooded standard… The early Melée Fantasque is much more than a makeweight… Lloyd-Jones's... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2005, Editor's Choice
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Rubbra, Bliss, Tippett: Orchestral Music
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Soloists of Australia, Hans-Hubert Schonzeler, Ronald Thomas
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Special offer. Masterpieces of British Ballet - Checkmate & The Rake's Progress
Dancers of the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
Vintage De Valois creations for the Vic-Wells Ballet revived in the early 1980s, a good time for the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet. Filming is grainy but well-composed, and Barry Wordsworth relishes... —
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