"Homage To Isadora"/"Le Spectre de la Rose"/"L'après-Midi d'un Faune"

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Peter Hall referred to this edition in his published diaries, noting for the recording date (December 30th 1976) that:

"We recorded the programme - a good talk with Clement Crisp on Nijinsky and Isadora Duncan. In the break, enter Sir Fred Ashton and Lynn Seymour, Lynn to dance the little Brahms waltz inspired by Isadora which Ashton has choreographed for her. It's a pity I didn't talk to him about Isadora on the programme. He saw her at sixteen, and told me she was really a kind of intellectual strip teaser, taking off gauze veils one by one and draping them over the piano; huge thighs, he mused. But he'd obviously been very impressed by her artistry. She was, he said, the first Earth Mother."