Adam: La jolie fille de Gand

Featuring

Andrew Mogrelia
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Adolphe Charles Adam

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Composer Biography

Adolphe Adam, the composer, was the son of Louis Adam, who his son described as the founder of the French school of piano playing.

Compositional Technique

Adolphe Adam's score for La Jolie Fille de Gand features cornets and the tuba-like ophicleide, displaying a more daring sense of color than his earlier work, Giselle.

Performer Biography

Andrew Mogrelia, the conductor, has a prolific discography on Naxos/Marco Polo, specializing in full-length ballet scores and rare or previously unrecorded symphonic and ballet repertoire.

Recording & Production

This recording of Adolphe Adam's La Jolie Fille de Gand is a world premiere recording.

Composition History

Adolphe Adam's ballet La Jolie Fille de Gand was equally well received as his more famous work Giselle, and even eclipsed an opera by Ambroise Thomas premiered on the same night.

Composition History

The ballet La Jolie Fille de Gand premiered on June 22, 1842, at the Salle de la rue Le Peletier, with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy, Marquis de Saint-Georges, and Albert (François Albert Decombe).