Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!".
Albums
- Griseldis (2025)
- Orfa (2023)
- Giselle (Arr. Büsser) (2021)
- Giselle & Le Cid - Ballet Music (2020)
- Giselle (2012)
- Si j'étais roi (Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire feat. conductor: Richard Blareau) (2004)
- Swan Lake (excerpts) / Giselle / Les Patineurs (Suite) (Philadelphia Orchestra feat. conductor: Eugene Ormandy) (2003)
- La Filleule des fées (2002)
- La Jolie Fille de Gand (2000)
- Le Toréador (1998)
- Im Herzen der Klassik 42: Adam - Giselle & Delibes - Coppelia / Sylvia (1997)
- The Classical Collection 101: Golden Age of French Opera: Operatic Riches (1996)
- Peer Gynt, Suites no.1 y no.2 / Giselle (1996)
- Giselle: Ballet pantomime in Two Acts (Complete Ballet) (1994)
- Der Postillon von Lonjumeau (Rundfunkorchester des SWF Kaiserslautern, conductor: Klaus Arp, singers: Swensen Lika, Prey) (1994)
- Le Corsaire (1992)
- Ballet Favorites (1992)
- Music from Giselle: Ballet Music (1991)
- Giselle Act II (The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra) (1989)
- Giselle, or The Wilis: Ballet in Two Acts (1987)
- Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (1986)
- Giselle: The Music...The Pictures...The Story (1959)
- Famous Overtures, No. 4 (1951)
- Adam: Ballet Music From Giselle (1950)
- Si j'etais roi