RECORDING OF THE MONTH


 

 
CHOPIN
Waltzes and Impromptus
Vladimir Feltsman
£11 post free World-wide


VIVALDI
The four seasons
London Mozart Players/Juritz
£12 post free World-wide

BEETHOVEN
Symphonies 4 and 5
LSO/Yondani Butt
£12 post free World-wide

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LAMBERT, Constant
b London, 23 August 1905
d London, 21 August 1951, aged forty-five

He was the son of an Australian painter. He was educated at Christ's College from 1915 to 1922, then won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. From 1931 to 1947 he was musical director of Sadler's Wells Ballet (later called the Royal Ballet), and in 1948 became its artistic director.

1925 (21)

Romeo and Juliet, ballet

1926 (21)

Pomona, ballet

Poems by Li-Po

1927 (22)

Music for orchestra

Elegiac Blues

1928-9 (23-4)

Piano Sonata

1929 (24)

The Rio Grande, for chorus, orchestra and piano solo

1931 (26)

Concerto for piano and nine instruments

1936 (31)

Summer's Last Will and Testament, for chorus and orchestra

1937 (32)

Horoscope, ballet

1940 (35)

Dirge, for male voices and strings

1942 (37)

Aubade héroïque, for orchestra

1950 (45)

Tiresias, ballet

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