In the first work: Bradley Creswick, violin ; David Watkin, cello ; Catriona Beveridge, piano ; Scottish Chamber Orchestra ; Richard Armstrong, conductor. In the 2nd work: Christine Brewer, Gillian Keith, Gail Pearson, Anita Watson, sopranos ; Pamela Helen Stephen, Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano ; John Graham Hall, Robert Dean Smith, Wynne Evans, Declan McCusker, tenors ; Alan Opie, Roderick Williams, baritone ; Dean Robinson, Matthew Rose, Paul Keohone, bass ; Stephen Fry, narrator ; Scottish Chamber Orchestra ; Richard Armstrong, conductor
Producer, Brian Pidgeon
Libretto of 2nd work by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Recorded Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh Trident Audio Post, London.
The 2nd work is sung in English; translated from the German.
Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Ouverture (4:01) ; Menuett (1:37) ; Der Fechtmeister (1:44) ; Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider (5:13) ; Das Menuett des Lully (2:28) ; Courante Aufritt des Cleonte (4:20) ; Vorspiel zum II. Aufzug (3:10 ; Das Diner: Tafelmusik (10:08) -- Ariadne auf Naxos, op. 60, TrV 228a (1:57:24)