Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Flury: The Magic Mirror & Little Ballet Music (2020) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Flury: The Magic Mirror & Little Ballet Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:05 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Der magische Spiegel (‘The Magic Mirror’), a 1954 ballet by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967), tells a pantomime tale of flirtation, cuckoldery, 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. This recording was made by the team – Paul Mann and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra – responsible for a ‘pulsating’ recording of Richard Flury’s one-act opera Eine florentinische Tragödie.

Tracklist:
01. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 1, Introduction (0:56)
02. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 2, Waltz I (1:41)
03. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 3, The Student’s Serenade (3:11)
04. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 4, The Student Enters (1:51)
05. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 5, The Husband Enters (3:03)
06. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 6, Waltz II (2:30)
07. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 7, The Husband’s Farewell (2:54)
08. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 8, Scene of the Magician (2:18)
09. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 9, The Husband Is Healed (1:41)
10. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 10, The Husband Is Given a Magic Mirror (1:14)
11. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 11, Waltz III (1:23)
12. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 12, Interlude I (0:36)
13. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 13, The Student Draws the Husband (0:51)
14. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 14, Waltz IV (4:24)
15. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 15, The Student’s Presentiment of Death (0:56)
16. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 16, Bolero (4:02)
17. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 17, Interlude II (1:01)
18. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 18, Czardas (3:29)
19. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 19, Interlude III (0:19)
20. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 20, Death of the Student (1:42)
21. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 21, Return of the Husband (2:11)
22. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 22, Interlude IV (1:29)
23. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 23, Reunion with His Wife (0:45)
24. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 24, The Husband Accuses His Wife (1:21)
25. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 25, Interlude V (0:31)
26. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 26, Her Girlfriends Try to Appease Him (2:27)
27. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 27, Opening the Trunk (0:30)
28. The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 28, Devils Push the Sinner into the Fire (3:15)
29. Little Ballet Music: I. Arabesque (3:10)
30. Little Ballet Music: II. Melodie (2:09)
31. Little Ballet Music: III. Alla polacca (1:29)
32. Little Ballet Music: IV. Valse pastorale (1:55)
33. Little Ballet Music: V. Tambourin (2:13)
34. Little Ballet Music: VI. Marche de Kermesse (1:55)