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Music to the Bournonville Ballets: La Sylphide

Music to the Bournonville Ballets: La Sylphide

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Peter Ernst Lassen
Peter Ernst Lassen was born in Copenhagen and educated as a pianist and conductor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He continued his studies in Salzburg with Herman Scherchen (1962), in Berlin with Herbert von Karajan (1962/63) and in Bayreuth with Karl Böhm (1963).
Peter Ernst Lassen was engaged as conductor at the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra during 1963-66 and for the Danish Radio Orchestra during 1966-70.
1972-88 he was the resident conductor at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, conducting both opera and ballet. During this period he also gave several concerts with danish regional orchestras as well as at the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. He also conducted concerts with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 1983 he was a frequent guest at the Hamburg State Opera, where he in 1988 became resident conductor and conducted a large number of ballets and operas. During this period he also gave concerts with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
In 1991 he was appointed Music Director for the Ballet and conductor at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, where he since then has conducted ballets as well as operas.
Peter Ernst Lassen has guested the Bayerische Staatsoper, München, the English National Ballet, The Norwegian Opera, and the Stockholm Opera.
He has conducted guest productions on tours to the Metropolitan Opera New York, Vienna State Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Paris Opera, Sächsische Staatsoper, Dresden, to all the major cities of Japan, and to Beijing and Shanghai.
Since 1994 Peter Ernst Lassen has been a regular guest conductor at the Royal Operahouse, Covent Garden and in 1996 he was appionted Principal Guest Conductor for the Birmingham Ballet Symphonia. In July 1997 he conducted at the closing Gala at the Royal Opera House, London. In October 1994 he gave his debut at Opera National de Paris, Bastille, and was reinvited for the opening Gala performance of Palais Garnier. In 1999 he conducted two new ballet productions at the Paris Opera, and joined the Ballet National on a tour to Dijon.
From the season 2O01/02 Peter Ernst Lassen is frequently guesting the Finnish National opera, Helsinki, the Sächsische Staatsoper, Dresden, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
In spring 2004 he gave his debut at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin, and was reengaged for the 2004/05 season.
In the years as resident conductor at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen he studied and conducted the Bournonville-repertoire, which he with this CD-set presents with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra.
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Herman Løvenskiold
Sylfiden – Act 1
1. Ouverture
2. No. 1: Introduction
3. No. 2: Entry of Effy
4. No. 3: Entry ofthe Scots, Effy, James and the witch – The Prediction
5. No. 4: The Window Scene – James and the Sylph
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7. No. 5: Arrival and dance of the guests – Pas d’Ecossaise
8. No. 6: Pas de deux
9. Reel
10. No. 7: Finale
Sylfiden – Act 2
11. No. 1: The Witches
12. No. 2: Forest scene – James and the Sylph
13. No. 3: Sylph scene
14. Sylph 1st solo
15. James 1st solo
16. Sylphs
17. Sylph 2nd solo
18. Ensemble – Coda
19. No. 5: James chases the sylphs
20. No. 6: Gurn, the Witch and Effie
21. No. 7: The Sash. James and Madge
22. No. 8: Finale
23: The Sylph’s death scene
24. The curse
Pas de Deux from Sylfiden
25. Adagio
26. A la polacca
27. Allegro grazioso
28. Allegretto

August Bournonville 1805-1879 ©
“Nothing in this world lasts forever, least of all the fleeting illusions of the stage.”
So wrote August Bournonville in his old age, but he was proved wrong!
Now, two centuries after the birth of Bournonville, much of his choreographic work lives on, and dancers all over the globe work with his style and exercises. Of a life’s work of around fifty ballets large and small, dancers still perform five major ones (La Sylphide 1836, Napoli 1842, Le Conservatoire 1849, The Kermesse in Bruges 1851 and A Folk Tale 1854), three minor works (La Ventana 1858, Far from Denmark 1860, The King’s Volunteers on Amager 1871) and a number of individual dances (Polka Milltaire 1842, William Tell 1842, the pas de deux trom the Ftower Festival in Gelzano 1858, Jockey Dance 1876 etc.) to which we can add reconstructed works like Abdallah, 1855, which have found a place in the present-day repertoire of the Royal Danish Ballet.
When Bournonville took up his post as ballet-master at the Royal Theatre in 1830 at the age of 25, the dance repertoire still consisted to a certain extent of the ltalian ballet-master Vincenzo Galeotti’s works. Bournonville did very little to preserve the repertoire of his predecessor, and indeed assumed that his own ballets too would disappear from the stage.
This was not to be, and the preservation of the Bournonville repertoire means that, in an unbroken tradition, the Royal Danish Ballet has danced the largest repertoire from the nineteenth century of any company in the world.

RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 631

EAN: 5709499631003

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