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Leopold Stokowski with the Philadelphia Orchestra
1929 - Bizet's L'Arlésienne Suite

 
Stokowski on May 3 and 4, 1929 recorded his suite of excerpts from Georges Bizet's incidental music to L'Arlésienne. 

Georges Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite

Prélude
Minuetto
Adagietto
 Danse provençale
Carillon


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Georges Bizet (1838-1875) adapted two suites from his incidental music to a play by his contemporary Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897).  The play, presented on October 1872, was not particularly successful, so Bizet used the music not only in the two suites, but also as arranged for piano four hands.  The original score consisted of 27 musical sections, and the original orchestration was for only 26 musicians.  However, the next month, Bizet re-orchestrated part of the music in to a four movement suite, which was a great success at the famous Cirque d'Hiver de Paris.  After Bizet's death, his friend Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892) arranged the original music to L'Arlésienne into a second suite, adding music from Bizet's opera La Jolie Fille de Perth.

 
Stokowski's suite is essentially the L'Arlesienne Suite no 1, with the addition of a Danse provençale, which is the Andantino from the Pastorale of the L'Arlesienne Suite no 2.  Stokowski inserts this dance between the Adagietto and the concluding Carillon of the Suite no 1.

 
Georges Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite was recorded 3 and 4 May 1929 in the Academy of Music.  The suite was issued on five Victor 12 inch (30 cm) Red Seal sides, contained in Musical Masterpiece Album M-62.  L'arlésienne Prélude on matrices CVE-47981-2, CVE-47982-1 was issued on Victor 7124 and in Europ on Gramophone HMV D-1801, Gramophone (France) W-1089, and Electrola (Germany) EJ-554.  Minuetto and Adagietto were on CVE-47983-2 and later CVE-47983-3, CVE-47984-1 and later CVE-47984-2 on Victor 7125 and in Europe Gramophone HMV D-1802, Gramophone (France) W-1090, and Electrola (Germany) EJ-555.  The third Victor Red Seal disc containing the Danse provençale and Carillon, matrices CVE-47985-2 and CVE-47986-1 were issued on Victor 7126 and in Europe on Gramophone HMV D-1803, Gramophone (France) W-1091, Electrola (Germany) EJ-556.

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