Alexander Gibson - Gounod: Faust - Ballet Music / Bizet: Carmen - Suite

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Widely regarded as one of the great RCAs. Alexander Gibson conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, performing ballet music from Charles Gounod's Faust and Georges Bizet's Carmen Suite. Featuring orchestral highlights from Faust and Carmen, the later selections on Side 2 are nothing short of spectacular. Outstanding clarity and stereo stage. Transparency and imaging is superb.

Recorded in Kingsway Hall, London
Producer: Ray Minshull
Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson

Features:
• 180g Vinyl 33 1/3rpm
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Mastered by Willem Makkee

Musicians:
Royal Opera House Orchestar, Covent Garden
Alexander Gibson, conductor

Selections:
Side A:
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Ballet Music from Faust
1. Waltz (Allegretto)
2. Ensemble (Adagio)
3. Dance of The Nubians
4. Cleopatra's Dance
5. Dance of The Trojan Maidens
6. Helen's Dance
7. Bacchanalia

8. Funeral March of a Marionette

Side B:
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Carmen Suite
1. Prelude; Entracte-Aragonaise; Habanera; Changing of The Guard; Intermezzo; Smuggler's March; Entr'acte-Dragoons of Alcala