Dimitri Tiomkin - Paris Under the Stars - Ballet Music for Albertina Rasch '2019

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World premiere recording of melodious ballet music by Dimitri Tiomkin for
Albertina Rasch and her famed dance troupe, the Albertina Rasch Dancers.
Recorded as a companion to Intrada’s world premiere release of
Tiomkin’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder, this
lavish 2-CD recording made by William Stromberg leading the Slovak National
Symphony Orchestra offers more than 80 minutes of early Tiomkin music, dazzling
transcribed and orchestrated for this recording by Patrick Russ. Composed
between 1927 - 1932, Tiomkin wrote these stirring and energetic pieces during
the years prior to his becoming the celebrated Academy Award-winning Hollywood
film composer. Albertina Rasch conceived and executed the first ballet staging
set to music by George Gershwin in 1926, with Tiomkin one of two pianists on
stage. Her efforts led to new concepts in ballet, what she referred to as New
World Ballet or American Ballet. While Tiomkin later made mention of his Mars
Ballet music, he largely ignored the remainder of his “truckload of ballet
music”, according to liner note author Warren M. Sherk. New Intrada
presentation brings generous amount of this brilliant, neglected work out into
the open. Film music aficionados will enjoy discovering beloved Duel In The Sun
theme finds its origin in several of these dazzling miniatures. Stunningly
performed orchestral showpieces include rollicking opener, “Snow
Ballet”, exciting “Mars Ballet”, rich four-movement
“Choreographic Suite” with its impressionistic
“Prelude”, animated “Scherzo”, haunting “Valse Con
Moto” and perhaps most significantly, its hypnotic and powerful
“Exotica”, with a singularly stirring buildup of the orchestra and
the introducing of that afore-mentioned memorable theme later immortalized in
Selznick’s Duel In The Sun. Numerous other highlights include the rousing
Latin-flavored “Fiesta Suite”, particularly the powerful
“Gitana” and virtuoso “Fandango” and the infectious and
delightfully-syncopated rhythms of “Albertina Rasch Girls” from
“Moulin Rouge”. Big spotlight goes to “Rasch Specialty”
with its own unique, stirring variant on that ever-memorable Duel In The Sun
theme. Recorded on the supervision of Olivia Tiomkin who gracefully attended the
recording sessions. Engineered by veteran Simon Rhodes, orchestrated by Patrick
Russ. William Stromberg conducts the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra.

Tracklist:
01. Dimitri Tiomkin - Snow Ballet (3:35)
02. Dimitri Tiomkin - Mars Ballet (3:22)
03. Dimitri Tiomkin - Choreographic Suite (a. Prelude) (2:41)
04. Dimitri Tiomkin - Choreographic Suite (b. Scherzo) (3:05)
05. Dimitri Tiomkin - Choreographic Suite (c. Valse con moto) (3:53)
06. Dimitri Tiomkin - Choreographic Suite (d. Exotica) (5:57)
07. Dimitri Tiomkin - In the Land of Narcissus (2:54)
08. Dimitri Tiomkin - Fiesta Suite (a. A La Farandola) (7:59)
09. Dimitri Tiomkin - Fiesta Suite (b. Gitana) (3:09)
10. Dimitri Tiomkin - Fiesta Suite (c. Fandango) (3:15)
11. Dimitri Tiomkin - Heart of the Dancing Doll (3:06)
12. Dimitri Tiomkin - Toe Dance (3:00)
13. Dimitri Tiomkin - Paris Under the Stars - Moulin Rouge (a. Tampico) (2:06)
14. Dimitri Tiomkin - Paris Under the Stars - Moulin Rouge (b. Albertina Rasch
Girls) (3:06)
15. Dimitri Tiomkin - Paris Under the Stars - Moulin Rouge (c. Hell Bent) (2:19)
16. Dimitri Tiomkin - Paris Under the Stars - Moulin Rouge (d. Romance dun Soir)
(5:19)
17. Dimitri Tiomkin - Creoles Blues (3:11)
18. Dimitri Tiomkin - Duet (Sitting on a Garden Wall) (2:50)
19. Dimitri Tiomkin - Rasch Specialty (2:29)
20. Dimitri Tiomkin - Vaudeville Dances (a. Valse Noble) (2:10)
21. Dimitri Tiomkin - Vaudeville Dances (b. Tango in E minor) (1:45)
22. Dimitri Tiomkin - Vaudeville Dances (c. March - Valse Lento) (4:30)
23. Dimitri Tiomkin - Bolero (1:49)
24. Dimitri Tiomkin - Cakewalk (2:02)
25. Dimitri Tiomkin - Scarlet Jazz (3:16)

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