The 19th-century suites with their collection of favourite songs and instrumental excerpts from operas are the clear forerunners of todays Best-Of culture. The Carmen Suite was assembled after Bizets death and brought the operatic masterpiece into the concert hall. The overture is fresh and rousing, the toreador theme marches in proudly and purposefully, followed by the destiny motif in the minor key which burns itself into ones ear and mind. With every bar it becomes obvious that this suite is not so much a series of excerpts but rather the true substance of its creators musical ideas.

All that remained of the five-act play LArlsienne after its unsuccessful premiere was Bizets incidental music, which he himself orchestrated lavishly and premiered with success. Similar to Carmen, popular melodies are treated with the composers own unique style to make them ageless, and Ernest Ansermet and his orchestra stages them delightfully for all eternity.

• 180 gram LP w/ Standard Sleeve
• Recording: April and May 1958 at Victoria Hall, Geneva (Switzerland), by Roy Wallace

Decca SXL 2037 -Artist-Bizet, Ansermet, L’Orchestre De La Suisse Romande

• Internal ID: JIT
• Format: Vinyl
• Format Detail: LP Black
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• Genre: Classical
• Released: 8/28/19