Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
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Performer: Jules EskinComposer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Performer: Bernard Zighera
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Armando Ghitalla
Performer: Joseph Silverstein
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-09-16
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Swan Lake: Introduction: Moderati assai - Allegro non troppo - Tempo I
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 1 Scene: Allegro giusto
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 2. Valse: Tempo di valse
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 3. Scene: Allegro moderato
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 4. Pas de trois: I. Intrada: Allegro
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 4. Pas de trois: II. Andante sostenuto
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 4. Pas de trois: III. Allegro simplice - Presto
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 4. Pas de trois: IV. Moderato
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 4. Pas de trois: V. Allegro
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 4. Pas de trois: VI. Coda: Allegro vivace
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 5. Pas de deux - I. Tempo di valse ma non troppo vivo, quasi moderato; II. Andante - Allegro
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No.5. Pas de deux: III. Tempo di valse
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 5. Pas de deux: IV. Coda: Allegro molto vivace
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 6. Pas d'action: Andantino quasi moderato - Allegro; No. 7. Sujet
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 8. Danse des coupes: Tempo di polacca
- Swan Lake: Act 1: No. 9. Finale: Sujet: Andante
- Swan Lake: Act 2: No. 10 - Scene: Moderato
- Swan Lake: Act 2: No. 11. Scene: Allegro moderato - Moderato - Allegro vivo
- Swan Lake: Act 2: No. 12. Scene: Allegro - Moderato assai quasi andante
- Swan Lake: Act 2: No. 13. Danses des cygnes: I. Tempo di valse
- Swan Lake: Act 2: No. 13. Danses des cygnes: II. Moderato assai
- Swan Lake: Act 2: No. 13. Danses des cygnes: III. Tempo di valse
- Swan Lake: Act 2: No. 13. Danses des cygnes: IV. Allegro moderato
- Swan Lake: Act 2 : No.13 Danses des cygnes : V. Pas d'action: Andante - Andante non troppo - Tempo I - Allegro
- Swan Lake: Act 2 : No.13 Danses des cygnes : VI. Tempo di valse
- Swan Lake: Act 2 : No.13 Danses des cygnes : VII. Coda: Allegro vivo
- Swan Lake: Act 2 : No. 14 Scene: Moderato
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 15 Allegro giusto
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 16 Danses du corps de ballet et des nains: Moderato assai - Allegro vivo
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 17 Scene. Sortie des invites et valse: Allegro - Tempo di valse
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 18 Scene: Allegro - Allegro giusto
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 19 Pas de six. Intrada: Moderato assai
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 19 Pas de six. Intrada: Moderato assai : Var. I: Allegro; Var. II: Andante con moto
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 19 Pas de six. Intrada: Moderato assai : Var.III: Moderato; Var. IV: Allegro
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 19 Pas de six. Intrada: Moderato assai : Var. V: Moderato - Allegro simplice; Coda: Allegro molto
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 20 Danse hongroise. Czardas: Moderato assai - Allegro moderato - Vivace
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 20a Danse russe: Moderato - Andante simplice - Allegro vivo - Presto
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 21 Danse espagnole: Allegro non troppo (Tempo di bolero)
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 22 Danse napolitaine: Allegro moderato - Andantino quasi moderato - Presto
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 23 Mazurka: Tempo di mazurka
- Swan Lake: Act 3 : No. 24 Scene: Allegro - Valse - Allegro vivo
- Swan Lake: Act 4 : No. 25 Entr'acte: Moderato; No. 26 Scene: Allegro non troppo
- Swan Lake: Act 4 : No. 27 Danses des petits cygnes: Moderato
- Swan Lake: Act 4 : No. 28 Scene: Allegro agitato - Molto meno mosso - Allegro vivace
- Swan Lake: Act 4 : No. 29 Scene finale: Andante - Allegro agitato - Alla breve. Moderato e maestoso - Moderato
Free Music Notes for Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Free Music Review: Anemic
Hit: 3 Stars
In general, Seiji Ozawa is a fine Tchaikovsky conductor. His Berlin recording of the Fifth Symphony is very good. I also have heard him in a 1970's broadcast from Saratoga conduct the Philadelphia in a stunning Fourth Symphony. He also did a telecast with Boston from Carnegie Hall of the Pathetique that was highly worthwhile. So I'm really puzzled by this Swan Lake. The orchestra plays well in the big moments, tempos throughout are reasonable, and the sound engineering is very good. But the whole thing is never moving. Instrumental solos, while certainly neat enough, are never well characterized--with the exception of Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein's. Phrases pass us by in a four square manner. Ozawa never seems to have an opinion about the score, let alone any passion for it. It's quite possible, given what BSO players have said about him, that he may not have even known the score very well. This was the first set of CDs of Swan Lake that I added to my collection. Since then, I have bought complete recordings by Dorati, Svetlanov, and Ondrej Lenard, and all of them are considerably more satisfying than Ozawa's, despite his advantage of having the Boston Symphony. I have to think of somebody I don't like very much to give Ozawa's to.
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Poster
Swan Lake was the first of Tchaikovsky's three great ballets-- works which added a new 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 difficulties the composer experienced at early performances. Audiences found the music "too symphonic," and the dancers were put off by the prominence given to the orchestra which, they felt, distracted ballet fans from the action on stage. Of course, all of these supposed "defects" are precisely what we admire about the music today, and this elegant but exciting performance reveals the music in all of its glory. --David HurwitzClassical Music CDs
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