tracks

Marche Hongroise (La Damnation De Faust)
España - Rhapsody For Orchestra
Habanera
Alborada Del Gracioso
Claire De Lune
Marche Écossaise
Scherzo For Orchestra
Pacific 231
Air (Orchestral Suite No. 3)
Abu Hassan: Overture
Spanish Dance No. 1 (La Vida Breve)
Romanian Folk Dance No. 1 'Stick Dance'
Scherzo À La Russe
March (The Love Of Three Oranges)
Dance Of The Persian Slaves (Khovanshchina)
Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair)
Waltz Of The Flowers (The Nutcracker)

notes

Total Time 80'06

Stereo recordings except for track 16

Recording dates:
7-16 October 1955 (tracks 3, 5, 6, 11, 16)
7 October - 11 November 1958 (tracks 10, 17)
8 October - 25 November 1960 (track 4)
22 March 1961 (track 14)
30 September - 15 November 1961 (track 9)
2 - 8 April 1963 (track 8)
4 April - 3 May 1964 (tracks 12, 15)
24 November 1964 (track 13)
7, 8 & 10 December 1964 (track 2)
11, 13, 15, & 16 December 1964 (track 1)
21 - 24 September 1968 (track 7)

Reissues from:
track 1: SXL 6165 (Berlioz*, Ansermet*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Ansermet Conducts Berlioz)
track 2: SXL 6168 (Chabrier*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet - Chabrier: España)
tracks 3, 5, 6, 11, 16: LW 5234 (Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, Falla*, Chabrier*, Mussorgsky*, Debussy* - Album Of Orchestral Favourites)
track 4: SXL 2273 (Ravel*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, Ansermet* - Daphnis Et Chloe / Alborada Del Gracioso / Le Tombeau De Couperin / Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales)
track 7: SXL 6395 (Albéric Magnard / Édouard Lalo, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet - Symphony No.3 / Scherzo For Orchestra)
track 8: SXL 6065 (Ravel*, Honegger*, Dukas* - Ansermet*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Bolero • La Valse / Pacific 231 / L'Apprentii Sorcier)
track 9: SXL 6004 (Bach*, Ansermet*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Suites No.2&3)
track 10: SXL 2112 (Weber*, Ansermet*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Overtures)
track 12: SXL 6121 (Bartok*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, Ansermet* - Dance Suite ∙ Two Portraits Opus Five ∙ Rumanian Dances)
track 13: SXL 6171 (Stravinsky*, Ansermet*, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Renard / Scherzo A La Russe / Mavra)
track 14: SXL 2292 (Prokofiev* / Glinka* / Borodin*, Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Classical Symphony / March And Scherzo / Kamarinskaïa Fantasy / A Life For The Czar / In The Steppes Of Central Asia)
track 15: SXL 6119 (Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, Mussorgsky*, Glinka* - Russian Delights)
track 17: SXL 2092-3 (Tchaikovsky*, Ansermet* - The Nutcracker (Casse-Noisette - Complete Ballet))

This contains the first stereo releases of tracks 3 & 11

credits

Art Direction – Raymond Bannerman
Artwork [Sketch On Cover] – Géa Augsbourg
Booklet Editor – Bruce Raggatt
Conductor – Ernest Ansermet
Engineer [Balance] – Gil Went (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 11, 16), James Lock (2) (tracks: 1, 2, 7, 12, 13, 15), James Timms (tracks: 17), Karl Brugger (tracks: 4, 14), Roy Wallace (tracks: 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17)
Liner Notes – François Hudry
Orchestra – L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande
Producer – James Walker (3) (tracks: 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17), John Mordler (tracks: 1, 2, 7, 13), Michael Bremner (tracks: 4, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15), Victor Olof (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 11, 16)
Producer [For Eloquence] – Cyrus Meher-Homji
Remastered By – Chris Bernauer

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Decca Music Group Limited
Copyright (c) – Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd
Marketed By – Universal Classics & Jazz
Pressed By – Technicolor, Australia
Recorded At – Victoria Hall, Geneva

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