Anatole Fistoulari conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden performing Walton's Façade and Lecocq's Mamzelle Angot. Engineer Ken Cross and producer Michael Williamson created another Decca/RCA masterpiece, it's hard to know where to begin with a recording this good, there is incredible transparency, snap, detail and body, on the high frequencies.

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Anatole Fistoulari conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden performing Sir William Walton's Façade and Charles Alexandre Lecocq's Mamzelle Angot. Working with the Royal Ballet Orchestra in Covent Garden under Fistoulari, engineer Ken Cross and producer Michael Williamson created another Decca/RCA masterpiece. It's hard to know where to begin with a record this good. The top — the high end — of this recording is simply as well recorded as any RCA there is.

Undeniable transparency, snap, detail and body on cymbals, bells and woodblocks. The same virtues, along with the added virtue of harmonic richness extends into the midrange. Strings are sweet, diaphanous, transparent and a bit bright, without being irritating. Brass and woodwinds — which in this piece carry much of the thematic load — are particularly well reproduced.

Recorded in Walthamstow Assembly Hall
Producer: Michael Williamson
Engineer: Ken Cross

Royal Opera House Orchestra
Covent Garden
Anatole Fistoulari, Conductor

Track Listing:

Lado A: Facade - Sir William Walton (1902-1983)
01. Fanfare
02. Scotch Rhapsody
03. Valse
04. Tango-Pasadoble
05. Swiss Yodelling Song
06. Country Dance
07. Polka
08. Noche Espagnole
09. Popular Song
10. Old Sir Faulk
11. Tarantella Sevilana

Lado B: Mamzelle Angot - Charles Lecocq (1832-1918)
01. Overture
02. Act I: No. 3 - Mazurka; No. 5 - Tempo di Marcia
03. Act II: No. 8 - Tempo di Gavotte; No. 11
04. Act III: No. 13 - Finale