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Jan 12, 2017 · Here's my latest YouTube video with more than 7 HOURS of ballet music! https://youtu.be/pdSlNHdzgx... Dear friends! Thank you SO much for listening to my music!
- 180 min
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- Ballet Music DK by Søren Bebe
Aug 11, 2013 · Amazing Piano Music for Dance and Ballet Playlist of the video: 1: Adagio 2 (track 27), 2: Adagio 3 (28), 3: Adagio 4 (29), 4: Adagio 5 (30), 5: Balances 1 (47), 6: Fondu 1 (18), 7: Fondu 5 (21...
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- MeditationRelaxClub - Sleep Music & Mindfulness
The Nutcracker is amongst the most popular ballet music ever written. Enjoy the beautiful melodies composed by the iconic composer Tchaikovsky and dive into ...
- 147 min
- 2.9M
- Cordless Music
- The Nutcracker
- The Red Shoes
- ‘The Dying Swan’
- Ballet Music from Gounod’s Faust
- The Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Spartacus
- The Rite of Spring
- Romeo and Juliet
- Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky is truly the alpha and omega of ballet music. The Nutcracker is centered around a young girl’s Christmas Eve celebration and her romantic awakening. She creeps downstairs to play with her favourite present, a nutcracker, that comes to life as a handsome prince who whisks her off to the Land of Sweets. What has always struck people about...
After the resounding success with his innovative Swan Lake, Matthew Bourne has produced several full-length ballets, some more successful than others. His brilliant hit The Red Shoes, premiered 2016, is based on the celebrated film of the same name by Powell and Pressburger. The story concerns a 1940s ballet dancer whose struggle to choose between ...
Saint-Säens composed his delightful Carnival Of The Animalsin 1886, but forbade performances of it until after his death (in 1921). Fortunately for the Russian dancer Anna Pavlova, the composer did allow one number from the work, a cello solo called ‘The Swan’, to be published before that. When choreographer Mikhail Fokine heard it in 1905, he slau...
Unfortunately Wagner’s ploy to please the fickle Parisians failed miserably. They expected the ballet to be in Act 2, but the composer placed it near the beginning of Act 1. This meant that a notable clique of louche, self-entitled, male members of the audience called ‘The Jockey Club’ – who never appeared until a performance was well underway – mi...
Ballet played a significant role in the development of so-called ‘grand opera’ in Paris in the nineteenth century, when dancing increasingly became to be considered a necessary and lavish part of the spectacle. When Wagner revived his opera Tannhäuserfor Parisian audiences in 1861 therefore, he found himself expected to add a ballet and – unusually...
Back to Tchaikovsky again – and why not? After all, his scores still form the cornerstone of every ballet company’s repertoire. After Swan Lake, he turned his attention to a much cheerier story, and although the plot of The Sleeping Beauty, one of the best ballet music scores, does not have the ambiguity or complexity of its predecessor, it has a p...
After the fall of Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union – somewhat surprisingly, considering its brutal proletarianism – continued to prize ballet as a worthy art form. One of the most popular ballets of the Soviet era was by the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian and told the story of the imprisoned Thracian king Spartacus. The ‘Adagio’ for Spartacus ...
With Tchaikovsky’s success, Russia began to vie with France as the spiritual home of ballet. Bringing the two strands together, Stravinsky composed The Rite Of Spring(1913), one of the greatest ballet music scores, for a Parisian season of Diaghilev’s Russian Ballet Company. The world premiere caused a riot, as much for the sophisticated barbarism ...
Tchaikovsky paved the way for other great composers to consider ballet as a worthy outlet for their talents. One of the most successful was Sergei Prokofiev, who went on to provide the genre with some of its most memorable twentieth-century works. In Romeo And Juliet (1940), one of the best ballet music scores, he created a dance for the Montagues ...
During the first part of the nineteenth century, when the now-familiar features of classical ballet were developed and established, the music for new works didn’t reach a very high standard. Very few people, even now, listen to the rather rum-ti-tum works of Adolphe Adam (who wrote Giselle) or Ludwig Minkus (La Bayadère and Don Quixote) outside the...
- Christoph Willibald Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits. ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’ is a ballet from the Classical opera, Orfeo ed Euridice. The opera tells the story of Orfeo and his journey to save, and ultimately lose, his wife Euridice to the underworld.
- Adoplphe Adam: Giselle. Giselle is a Romantic ballet, written by French composer and music critic Adolphe Adam (also famous for the Christmas carol ‘O Holy Night’), and first performed in Paris in 1841.
- Léo Delibes: Coppélia. Coppélia is a comic ballet, composed by Léo Delibes and choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon in 1870. The three-act ballet features a lifelike dancing doll, the young man who becomes besotted with it, and his heart’s true desire, Swanhilda, who dresses as the doll to ultimately save the young man from his foolish infatuation.
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake. Take the tale of a princess transformed into an elegant swan and add some of the most ravishing melodies in classical music, and you get Swan Lake.
50 Ballet Classics. Album • 2017. 50 songs • 3 hours, 8 minutes. 1. Waltzes, Op. 64: No. 2, Tempo giusto in C-Sharp Minor. Robert Irving & Philharmonia Orchestra & Frédéric Chopin 1.8K plays....
What's the best ballet score of all time? Freya Parr explores the leading contenders for some of the greatest pieces of ballet music ever written.
