level of depth and sophistication to what had been a purely superficial art form. Today the music is so well-known and popular that it's impossible to comprehend the...
level of depth and sophistication to what had been a purely superficial art form. Today the music is so well-known and popular that it's impossible to comprehend the...
Orchestra / Ensemble(s): Boston Symphony Orchestra
Date of Release: 10/1996
Label / Distributor: Deutsche Grammophon / Universal Manufacturing and Logistics
Pieces in Set: 2
Running Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
Genre(s): Stage works
Producer: Rainer Brock
SPAR Code: ADD
EAN: 28945305523
Catalogue Number: 453
Work 1
Work Title: Swan Lake, Op. 20
Excerpt(s): 1. Introduction 2. ACT 1 - Opening Scene (Allegro giusto) 3. Waltz in A flat (Corps de Ballet) 4. Scene_Entrance of Pages (Allegro moderato) 5. Pas de trois: 6. Intrada (Allegro moderato); Pas de trois I (Andante sostenuto); Pas de trois II (Allegro semplice_Presto); Pas de trois 7. Pas de deux (items comprising this number sometimes appear in Act 3): 8. Intrada_Waltz in D; Pas de deux I (Andante, or Adagio); Pas de deux II_Waltz in B flat; Coda (Allegro molto vivace) 9. Pas d'action (andantino quasi moderato_Allegro) 10. Scene_Dusk falls 11. Danse des coupes_Polonaise (Temmpo di polacca) 12. Finale_Swan theme (Andante) 13. ACT 2 - Scene_Swan theme (Moderato) 14. Scene_Benno's entry (Allegro moderato_Allegro vivo) 15. Scène (Allegro) 16. Danses des cygnes 17. I_Waltz in A; II_First Dance of the Queen (Moderato assai_Molto più mosso); III_Danse générale (Waltz in A flat); IV_Dan 18. Scene_Swan theme (Moderato) 19. ACT 3 - Scene_Danse de fançailles (Allegro giusto) 20. Danses du corps de ballet et des nains 21. Scene: La sortie des invités (Fanfares) et la valse (A fla 22. Scène (Allegro_Allegro giusto) 23. Pas de six: 24. Intrada_Moderato assai; Variation 1 (Allegro); Variation 2 (Andante con moto); Variation 3 (Moderato); Variation 4 (Alle 25. Pas de deux (supplementary number); Danse hongroise (Czárdás); Danse russe (supplementary number) 26. Danse espagnole 27. Danse napolitaine 28. Mazurka 29. Scene (Allegro_Valse_Allegro vivo) 30. ACT 4 - Entr'acte (Moderato) 31. Scene (Allegro ma non troppo) 32. Danses des petits cynges (Moderato) 33. Scene (Allegro agitato) 34. Scene finale (Andante); Allegro agitato; Alla breve (Moderato e maestoso).
Advantages: A collection of wonderful songs & boppy tunes :-) Disadvantages: None
...One Step Beyond was released in 1979 & features their huge hits One Step Beyond, My Girl & Night Boat To Cairo, all classics that stand the test of time so well & are still just as good these days as they were at the time ! The saxaphones, heavy beats & Suggs' chirpy tones all merge into a distinctive style which is so recognisable. My personal favourite track on this album is SwanLake, based on the Tchaikovsky suite, but with a great rock beat, just wonderful ! The other tracks are good too, there really isn't a bad one. ENJOY :-)...
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Advantages: Exquisite dance music. A fesrive fantasia. Disadvantages: A little too fast moving
...With all the festivities of Christmas now begun, we are bombarded with advertisements of Christmas Films, Pantomimes and CDs. Among these, and often overlooked, is The Nutcracker composed by Peter Llyich Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky was already well known for his Ballet music when he composed the music for the Nutcracker in 1892 with compositions for SwanLake and The Sleeping Beauty already completed. Both had, however, been unfavourably received by the contemporary audiences and critics, Not discouraged, the director of The Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Vsevolozhsky commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose another ballet.
Vsevolozhsky himself suggested that an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Alexander Dumas, be used as a subject for the ballet. Tchaikovsky was not originally impressed...
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Advantages: Beautiful, carefree winding melodies, memorable sequences, wonderful for the christmas season. Disadvantages: Absolutely none.
...to believe that the composition was a mere plagiarism of others works, with only fractions of it being worth keeping away from the fire. However, he would not be deterred so easily - he decided to leave his first Piano Concerto unchanged.
At the time, he was characterized as a rather un-Russian composer by his critics, being regarded as a favorer of more west European styles of composing.
Tchaikovsky went on to produce such famous works as SwanLake, which is regarded by some as the greatest ballet ever created. Aswell as his famed Romeo & Juliet overture, the Nutcracker suite. The Sleeping Beauty (which was also adapted for Disney's film of the same name) and also his countless concertos and symphonys that so charactarize his inventiveness and sheer adeptitude when it came to composing music of limitless beauty.
He taught in the Moscow...
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