Jules Massenet - Ballet Suites (Neville Marriner)

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Composer: Jules Massenet

• (01-07) Le Cid (ballet suite from the opera)
• (08-14) Cendrillon (ballet suite from the opera)
• (15-21) Thaïs (ballet suite from the opera)

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor

Recording Date: 1994
Release Date: 2012
Label: Brilliant Classics (original recorded by Capriccio)

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Jules Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty, made him the leading composer of opera in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.. He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music. Massenet taught composition at the Paris Conservatoire from 1878 until 1896. Among his students were Gustave Charpentier, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn and Gabriel Pierné. Massenet's his operas are widely accepted as well-crafted and intelligent products of the Belle Époque.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Massenet

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Neville Marriner (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) is an English conductor. He was one of the most important of the early figures who spearheaded the reawakening of modern interest in Baroque and early Classical music. In the 1950s, he founded Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and his partnership with them is one of the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor. Marriner made over 600 recordings covering 2,000 different works for various labels, including Argo, L'Oiseau Lyre, Philips and EMI Classics. He's also known for the soundtrack recording of 1984 film Amadeus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Marriner

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