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Tchaikovsky, Meyerbeer, Boyce, Rossini: Ballet Music / Constant Lambert, et al

1 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Les Patineurs, ballet (arranged by Constant Lambert; music from "Le Prophète," Act 3); Constant Lambert: The Prospec...
Conductors: Lambert, Constant
Ensemble: Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra

Constant Lambert became fascinated with ballet after being taken to see Diaghilev's 'Ballet Russes' as a schoolboy. He was one of the artistic triumvirate who...continue...

British Ballet Music

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-17

Works: Arthur Sullivan: Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras); Lord Berners: A Wedding Bouquet; Arthur Bliss: Checkmate; William Walton: Façade; Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; ...
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Irving, Robert; Handley, Vernon; Frémaux, Louis; Boult, Adrian; Previn, Andre

BBC Music Magazine
Some sparkling playing here, especially Pineapple Poll under its arranger Charles Mackerras
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Music for Joyful Occasions - Alwyn, Lambert, Schuller / DePaul University Wind Ensemble

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-03-01

Works: William Alwyn: Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion; Concerto for flute & 8 winds; Constant Lambert: Tiresias, ballet; Gunther Schuller: Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik for trombone & chamber ensemble
Performers: Stolper, Mary; Vernon, Charlie
Conductors: DeRoche, Donald

Two British composers and one American - and all three are of great distinction. Alwyn was equally at home writing some of the most memorable...continue...

Lambert: Pomona, Romeo & Juliet, Orchestral Works

1 CD / Lyrita / 2007-11-13

Works: Constant Lambert: Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 2 tableaux; Pomona, ballet; Music for Orchestra; Summer's Last Will and Testament for baritone, chorus & orchestra
Conductors: del Mar, Norman; Wordsworth, Barry; Joly, Simon
Ensemble: ; London Philharmonic Orchestra

New recordings and legendary performances on CD for the first time! Born in London, Constant Lambert (1905–1951) studied at the Royal College of Music with...continue...

Wishart, Lambert: Works for Piano / Tanner, Schiller

1 CD / Priory / 2007-03-01

Works: Peter Wishart: Opheis Kai Klimakes, Op. 35; Partita for Piano in F sharp minor, Op. 10; Sonata for 2 Pianos in B flat major, Op. 5; Constant Lambert: Suite for Piano in Three Continuous Movements; Pr...
Performers: Schiller, Allan; Tanner, Mark

Here's something different from Priory, a disc of contemporary British piano music. Peter Charles Arthur Wishart was born in Sussex, describing himself as being "of...continue...

Lambert: Piano Concerto, etc / Lloyd-Jones, Plowright, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 2005-09-13

Works: Constant Lambert: Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 2 tableaux; Elegiac Blues "In Memory of Florence Mills"; Piano Concerto, for piano, 2 trumpets, strings & timpani; The Bird Actors Overture, for orchestr...
Performers: Plowright, Jonathan
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia

Constant Lambert - pioneering ballet composer, maverick author and lover of cats - was composing in those heady days between the two wars when English...continue...

The Best of British Light Music / Sutherland, et al

5 CD / ASV / 2004-09-21

Works: Malcolm Arnold: The Roots of Heaven; Little Suite no 4, for orchestra, Op. 80a (arr. Philip Lane); H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, for military band, Op. 60; The Padstow Lifeboat, Op. 94; William Alwyn...
Performers: BBC Concert Orchestra; Scott, Ian; Sinfonia, Royal Ballet; Sutherland, Gavin [Conductor]; Wordsworth, Barry [Conductor]
Conductors: Sutherland, Gavin; Wordsworth, Barry

Lambert: Horoscope; Bliss: Checkmate; Walton: Façade

1 CD / Hyperion / 2003-07-01

Works: Constant Lambert: Horoscope, suite from the ballet; William Walton: Façade, Suite no 2, for orchestra; Façade, Suite no 1, for orchestra; Arthur Bliss: Prologue and Five Dances from "Checkm...
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia

"A joy to welcome. All in all a disc not to be missed." - Gramophone "The music if all three is essentially English, splendidly dramatic...continue...

Lambert: The Bird Actors Overture, etc / Lanchbery, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-01-23

Works: Constant Lambert: The Bird Actors Overture, for orchestra; Pomona, ballet; Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 2 tableaux
Conductors: Lanchbery, John
Ensemble: Victoria State Orchestra

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
The really good news here is the CD début of Romeo and Juliet, one of only two ballet scores that Diaghilev commissioned...continue...

British Light Music Discoveries 3 / Wordsworth, et al

1 CD / ASV Import / 2000-11-28

Works: Malcolm Arnold: H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, for military band, Op. 60; Bryan Kelly: Divertissement, for orchestra; Constant Lambert: Elegiac Blues "In Memory of Florence Mills"; Romeo and Juliet, b...
Conductors: Wordsworth, Barry
Ensemble: ; Royal Ballet Sinfonia

"None of this music is familiar, yet all are crisp, jaunty works typical of 20th Century British light music at its best...Barry Wordsworth conducts the...continue...

Lambert: Tiresias, Pomona / Lloyd-Jones, English Northern PO

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-04-01

Works: Constant Lambert: Pomona, ballet; Tiresias, ballet
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia

'This excellent premiere recording from Hyperion may well restore a major score to the repertory, even perhaps to the stage' (The Times)

'A worthy successor...continue...