Title from container verso.

Façade is for reciters, flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), trumpet, violoncello & percussion; the Salome music is for clarinet, trumpet, violoncello & percussion.

Poems used in Façade by Edith Sitwell; the incidental music is for Oscar Wilde's play.

Compact disc.

Durations: 51:48; 9:30.

Program notes by Lloyd-Jones & text of Sitwell's poems (including texts used for numbers for which the music has been lost) laid in container.

Recorded Sept. 1-3, 2000 in Henry Wood Hall, London.

Façade recited in English.

Façade. Fanfare ; Hornpipe ; En famille ; Mariner man ; Aubade ; Long steel grass ; March ; Water party ; Through gilded trellises ; Tango-pasodoblé ; The white owl ; Gardiner Janus catches a naiad ; Said King Pompey ; Lullaby for Jumbo ; Black Mrs. Behemoth ; Daphne ; Tarantella ; Small talk ; The man from a far countree ; By the lake ; Country dance ; Madame Mouse trots ; Came the great Popinjay ; Polka ; Four in the morning ; Something lies beyond the scene ; Valse ; The octogenarian ; The last galop ; Jodelling song ; Scotch rhapsody Popular song ; Fox-trot : "Old Sir Faulk" ; Sir Beelzebub.

Façade : lost or incomplete numbers [words only included]. The wind's bastinado ; Switchback ; Bank holiday I & II ; Springing Jack ; Ass-face ; Clown Argheb's song ; Trams ; Serenade ; Gone dry ; Dark song ; Mazurka.

Suite from the incidental music to Salome. Prelude ; Slow ; Moderato.

Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964 > Musical settings.

Incidental music > Excerpts.

Nash Ensemble.