Talk:Les Sylphides

Costume
The photo is for La Sylphide not Les Sylphides please take that photo out they are two different works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.12.195.65 (talk) 01:13, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not a photo, and it doesn't claim to represent anything from Les Sylphides. It illustrates a section of the article which refers to La Sylphide. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:47, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Still it was the wrong ballet. I've replaced this with a more pertinent illustration of Anna Pavlova in Les Sylphides. Alfietucker (talk) 09:13, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Britten orchestration
The statement in the article that the Britten score was thought lost needs to be queried. He'd made the arrangement for the American Ballet Theatre when in New York at the start of the war so as to earn some money for living expenses. It was then recorded by the Ballet Theatre Orchestra under Joseph Levine on 13 October 1952 at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, New York, for Capitol Records. They issued it on LP (Catalogue No. P8193) and it was later issued in the UK on Music for Pleasure (MFP 2017) so quite why Britten's version was "thought lost" is not clear. The 'Grand Valse Brillante' from the score can be heard on You Tube ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXsDE-4uNg

Other orchestrations also include an arrangement jointly made in the 1940s by the Boston Pops 'house arrangers' Leroy Anderson and Peter Bodge. It was recorded in 1946 by that orchestra under conductor Arthur Fiedler, initially on 78s and reissued later on LP (RCA LM-1919 & RD-27077). Four excerpts from this version were also recorded by Leopold Stokowski for an LP entitled 'The Heart of the Ballet' in 1950 (RCA LRM-7022 / HMV ALP 1133 / Cala CACD0547). Sir Malcolm Sargent conducted his own orchestration of 'Les Sylphides' at Covent Garden in 1962 and simultaneously recorded it with the Royal Opera House Orchestra for HMV's 'Concert Classics' label (SXLP 20049).

Philipson55 (talk) 10:17, 17 January 2014 (UTC)