Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Flury: The Magic Mirror & Little Ballet Music (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Der magische Spiegel (‘The Magic Mirror’), a 1954 ballet by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967), tells a pantomime tale of flirtation, cuckoldery, magical spells and perdition – but this is no puritanical morality play: using the limited resources of a chamber orchestra to surprisingly full-bodied effect, Flury conjures up a delightful sequence of dances – a generous number of waltzes, with a czardas, a bolero and more – that skip past in good-humoured succession. And behind its innocent title, the Little Ballet Music of thirty years earlier hides a buoyant dance-suite, scored with a feeling for colour that would have gone down well in Hollywood. This recording was made by the team – Paul Mann and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra – responsible for a ‘pulsating’ recording of Richard Flury’s one-act opera Eine florentinische Tragödie.

Tracklist:
01. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 1, Introduction (00:56)
02. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 2, Waltz I (01:41)
03. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 3, The Student’s Serenade (03:10)
04. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 4, The Student Enters (01:50)
05. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 5, The Husband Enters (03:03)
06. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 6, Waltz II (02:30)
07. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 1 “In the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 7, The Husband’s Farewell (02:53)
08. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 8, Scene of the Magician (02:17)
09. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 9, The Husband Is Healed (01:41)
10. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 10, The Husband Is Given a Magic Mirror (01:14)
11. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 11, Waltz III (01:23)
12. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 12, Interlude I (00:35)
13. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 13, The Student Draws the Husband (00:50)
14. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 14, Waltz IV (04:24)
15. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 15, The Student’s Presentiment of Death (00:55)
16. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 16, Bolero (04:01)
17. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 17, Interlude II (01:00)
18. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 18, Czardas (03:28)
19. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 19, Interlude III (00:19)
20. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 2 “In the Laboratory of a Medieval Alchemist and Magician”: No. 20, Death of the Student (01:41)
21. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 21, Return of the Husband (02:11)
22. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 22, Interlude IV (01:29)
23. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 23, Reunion with His Wife (00:44)
24. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 24, The Husband Accuses His Wife (01:21)
25. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 25, Interlude V (00:30)
26. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 26, Her Girlfriends Try to Appease Him (02:27)
27. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 27, Opening the Trunk (00:30)
28. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – The Magic Mirror, Pt. 3 “Still in the Woman’s Chamber”: No. 28, Devils Push the Sinner into the Fire (03:15)
29. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Little Ballet Music: I. Arabesque (03:09)
30. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Little Ballet Music: II. Melodie (02:08)
31. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Little Ballet Music: III. Alla polacca (01:29)
32. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Little Ballet Music: IV. Valse pastorale (01:54)
33. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Little Ballet Music: V. Tambourin (02:13)
34. Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Little Ballet Music: VI. Marche de Kermesse (01:54)