Kubricka/Slovak Rso/Adriano - Ibert:La Ballade

Based on Oscar Wilde's impassioned text Le Ballade de la Ge�le de Reading, Jacques Ibert's first symphonic work astonished and impressed audiences with its dark atmospheres of anguished madness and terror. The Trois Pi�ces de Ballet portray society guests with colourful music-hall wit, contrasting with the impressionistic symphonic poem F�erique and the horrors of war expressed in Chant de Folie, while the Suite �lisab�thaine introduces ancient styles to enhance Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.