Melodiya – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:07:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music https://altocd.com/product/alc1498/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:03:44 +0000 https://altocd.com/?post_type=product&p=53103 Melodiya Catalogue Number: ALC 1498 Number of Discs: 1 CD Date/Runtime: Time: 75:44 DDD 1982/87 Barcode: 5055354414985]]> “Summing up Svetlanov’s Tchaikovsky is fairly easy in that everything is played either from the gut or from the heart, brilliance is a given, subtle observation less consistent but the sum effect is compelling.”

“The playing of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra is often quite brilliant, the characterisation imaginative … listening to the set made me realise just how much Svetlanov is missed. He certainly didn’t hold anything back” (Gramophone)

Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music
Swan Lake, Nutracker Suites, Polonaises (Sleeping Beauty, Cherevicki)
 
Suite from the ballet ‘Swan Lake’ Op.20a
1. Scene – 3:20
2. Waltz – 7:22
3. Dance of the Cygnets – 1:26
4. Scene – 7:33
5. Hungarian dance (czardas) – 3:11
6. panish dance – 2:26
7. Neapolitan dance – 1:54
8. Mazurka – 3:53
9. Scene – 4:13
Suite from the ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ Op.71a
10.Overture miniature – 3:08
Dances caracteristiques:
11. March – 2:22
12. Danse de le fee – dragee – 2:04
13. Trepak (danse Russe) – 1:01
14. Danse Arabe – 4:12
15. Danse des Chinoise – 1:12
16. Danse des mirlitons – 2:30
17.  Pas de Deux – 5:57
18.     Valse des fleurs – 6:47
19. Polonaise from the opera “Cherevichki” (Little Shoes) – 6:10
20. Polonaise from the ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’ – 4:04
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