Russian Ballets: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Khachaturian
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95409
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Ballet
Release Date: 18th November 2016
Contents
Works
Gayaneh: Ballet SuiteSpartacus: Ballet Suite
Cinderella: Suite no.1, op.107
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.2, op.64b
The Stone Flower: Suite no.1, op.126 'Wedding Suite'
Swan Lake: Suite, op.20a
The Nutcracker: Suite, op.71a
The Sleeping Beauty: Suite, op.66a
Artists
Royal Philharmonic OrchestraNovosibirsk Symphony Orchestra
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Conductors
Nicolae MoldoveanuBarry Wordsworth
David Maninov
Arnold Katz
Evgeny Svetlanov
Works
Gayaneh: Ballet SuiteSpartacus: Ballet Suite
Cinderella: Suite no.1, op.107
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.2, op.64b
The Stone Flower: Suite no.1, op.126 'Wedding Suite'
Swan Lake: Suite, op.20a
The Nutcracker: Suite, op.71a
The Sleeping Beauty: Suite, op.66a
Artists
Royal Philharmonic OrchestraNovosibirsk Symphony Orchestra
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Conductors
Nicolae MoldoveanuBarry Wordsworth
David Maninov
Arnold Katz
Evgeny Svetlanov
About
Minkus, Delibes and Adam, among many others, were commissioned for scores by Petipa, but it was with Tchaikovsky that ballet music would alter radically, away from its incidental, accompanimental role and towards a symphonic status which is recognised by the ballets on this compilation being at least as famous for their music as their dancing. Petipa was responsible for commissioning the composer’s most familiar ballet – perhaps the best‐loved ballet of all, The Nutcracker, on which the composer exercised all his mastery of timing and orchestration.
Although Serge Diaghilev was the great innovator in commissioning and choreographing music for dancing at the turn of the last century, his example was ignored in Russia under Soviet rule. The great state companies in Leningrad and Moscow continued the 19th-century tradition of full‐evening ballets to which these examples by Prokofiev (Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and the more rarely encountered Stone Flower) and Khachaturian (Spartacus and Gayaneh) belong. ‘Dancing,’ said the Danish choreographer August Bournonville, ‘is an expression of joy, a desire to respond to the rhythm of the music.’ That joy is amply illustrated by the suites from eight ballets in this compilation, which would make an invaluable introduction to the art‐form.
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