Sir Frederick Ashton Ballets

Format: CD
Label: Dutton Vocalion
Release date: February 2005
Catalogue no: CDLX 7149

This collection of music for Sir Frederick Ashton's ballets was published in February 2005 by Dutton Vocalion. It opens with a recording of Lennox Berkeley's The Judgement of Paris in which Barry Wordsworth conducts the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. This is the first recording of this work, which was written for Sir Frederick in 1938, and first performed at Sadler's Wells in May that year. Also includes works by Lambert and Lanchbery.

• The Judgement of Paris (op. 10 part 2)

Performed by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia & Barry Wordsworth (conductor)