Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
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Performer: Douglas CummingsComposer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Andr? Previn
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: John Brown
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prologue - The Christening: Introduction
- No.1 - Marche
- No.2 - Scene Dansante
- No.3 - Pas De Six: A) Introduction B) Adagio C) Variation 1 D) Variation 2 E) Variation 3 F) Variation 4 G) Variation 5 H) Variation 6 I) Coda
- No.5 - The Scene
- No.5 - Scene
- No.6 - Valse
- No.7 - The Scene
- No.8 - Pas D'action: A) Adagio A La Rose B) Danse C) Variations D'Aurore D) Coda
- No.9 - Finale
- No.10 - Entr'acte & Scene
- No.11 - Colin-Maillard
- No.12: A) Scene B) Danse Des Duchesses C) Danse Des Baronnes D) Danse Des Comptesses E) Danse Des Marquises
- No.13 - Farandole: A) Scene B) Danse
- No.14 - Scene
- No.15: A) Pas D'Action B) Aurora's Variation C) Coda
- No.16 - Scene
- No.17 - Panorama
- No.18 - Entr'acte
- No.19 - Entr'acte & Scene
- No.20 - Finale
- No.21 - March
- No.22 - Polacca
- No.23 - Pas De Quatre: A) Variation 1 B) Variation 2 C) Variation 3 D) Variation 4 E) Coda
- No.24 - Pas De Caractere
- No.25 Pas De Quatre: A) Variation 1 B) Variation 2 C) Coda
- No.26 - Pas De Caractere: A) Chaperon Rouge Et Le Lo B) Cendrillon Et Le Prince
- No.28 - Pas De Deux: A) Entree B) Adagio C) Variation 1 D) Variation 2 E) Coda
- No.30 - Finale Et Apotheose
Free Music Notes for Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Free Music Review: in the eye of the beholder
Hit: 4 Stars
I begin my review of this splendid cd with a slice of musical heresy: *listening* to a ballet with no dancers on a stage in front of you is inevitably a partial experience. Perhaps its closest analogy is listening to film music, which presents lush harmonies and brilliant dramatic effect. But if you've never seen the film, you miss something. This is because music written to accompany ballet and music composed to embellish a film are inescapably programmatic. They depend to some degree on the thing they accompany.
OK, I'm over that.
Andr? Previn and the LSO are at their typical wonderful selves in this recording. In SLEEPING BEAUTY, Tchaikovsky is at his most changeful and malleable. The score he has produced is something of an artistic institution; these musicians respect it and perform it in just that way.
Tchaikovsky lovers - like this reviewer - will enjoy familiar mechanisms and discern the development of a hugely familiar passage long before it finally sees the light in its canonical and popularly-recognized form.
This is all great stuff, even if its beauty is accessible only to ears and no eyes.
I just miss the ballet. In its intended context, Tchaikovsky and his music become worthy of their enduring fame. Alone, the music a recording, the listener esconced in a car or office or living room, something is missing.
The dancers.
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