Richard FLURY: Ballet Music
Der magische Spiegel (‘The Magic Mirror’), a 1954 ballet by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967), tells a pantomime tale of flirtation, cuckoldry, magical spells and perdition – but this is no puritanical morality play: using the limited resources of a chamber orchestra to surprisingly full-bodied effect, Flury conjures up a delightful sequence of dances – a generous number of waltzes, with a czardas, a bolero and more – that skip past in good-humoured succession. And behind its innocent title, the Little Ballet Music of thirty years earlier hides a buoyant dance-suite, scored with a feeling for colour that would have gone down well in Hollywood.
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Der magische Spiegel: Ballet in Three Scenes (1954)
- First Part: I Introduction
- First Part: II Waltz (1) of the wife
- First Part: III The student’s serenade
- First Part: IV The student enters
- First Part: V The husband enters
- First Part: VI Waltz (2) (wife/student)
- First Part: VII The husband’s farewell
- Second Part: In the Laboratory of a Mediaeval Alchemist and Magician: VIII Scene of the magician
- Second Part: IX The husband is healed
- Second Part: X The husband is given a magic mirror
- Second Part: In the Laboratory of a Mediaeval Alchemist and Magician: XI Waltz (3) (wife/student)
- Second Part: XII Interlude 1
- Second Part: XIII The student draws the husband
- Second Part: XIV Waltz (4) (wife/student)
- Second Part: XV The student’s presentiment of death
- Second Part: XVI Bolero (wife/student)
- Second Part:: XVII Interlude 2
- Second Part: XVIII Czardas (wife/student)
- Second Part: XVIV Interlude 3
- Second Part: XX Death of the student
- Third Part: Still in the Woman’s Chamber: XXI Return of the husband
- Third Part: XXII Interlude 4
- Third Part: XXIII Reunion with his wife
- Third Part: XXIV The husband accuses his wife
- Third Part: XXV Interlude 5
- Third Part: XXVI Her girlfriends try to appease him
- Third Part: XXVII Opening the trunk
- Third Part: XXVIII Devils push the sinner into the fire
- I Arabesque
- II Melodie
- III Alla Polacca
- IV Valse pastorale
- V Tambourin
- VI Marche de Kermesse
Kleine Ballettmusik (1925-26)
First Recordings
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