Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite, 3. Adagietto - Stokowski/Philadelphia

The incidental music to Alphonse Daudet’s play L’Arlésienne (usually translated as ’The Girl from Arles’) was composed by Georges Bizet for the first performance of the play in 1872. The music consisted of 27 numbers (some only a few bars) for voice, chorus and small orchestra. The numbers ranged from short solos to longer entr’actes. The music received poor reviews, and is not much performed nowadays in its original form. It has survived and flourished, however, in the form of two separate suites for orch