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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty (highlights)
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| |  | Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (excerpts)
Tchaikovsky was ideally equipped to write the music for the ballet Swan Lake. His gift for vivid theatricality, for lively, memorable melodies, and for rich characterisation was allied to a mastery of dance rhythms. These qualities were augmented by his command of orchestral colour. And yet early performances were disappointingly received. It was only after some structural and choreographic revisions in 1895, two years after the composer’s death, that the work was fully appreciated for the masterpiece that it is. | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty & Nutcracker highlights
Tchaikovsky's great ballet scores are symphonic tone paintings full of drama and emotional power. André Previn's time as head of the London Symphony Orchestra was a golden era in the LSO's rich history – not least thanks to outstanding recordings like this one. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Margot Fonteyn & Michael Somes
Tchaikovsky’s three ballet masterpieces are all rare studio performances from the 1950s, featuring the legendary Margot Fonteyn. Innately musical and technically perfect, Fonteyn was also a brilliant actress and is seen here at the height of her career with the celebrated Michael Somes, her dynamic partner during this creative period. Fonteyn and Somes were the perfect match in terms of physique, presence, style and technique. The selections from these three classic ballets demonstrate just how successful their partnership was. Fonteyn made her mark dancing Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, a role in which she and the Sadler’s Wells Ballet made their American debut in 1949, ten years before this BBC studio production. All three performances are released here for the first time on DVD with the extracts from Swan Lake representing one of the earliest appearances of Fonteyn on film. 1DVD Sound format: LPCM Mono Picture format: 4:3 Running time: 72’ Subtitles: n/a Menu languages: English Booklet languages: E/F/G Region code: 0 Territory Restrictions: None | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky: Ballet Highlights
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| |  | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
The three 2-CD Tchaikovsky/Ansermet sets The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake represent his complete Tchaikovsky recordings for Decca. For many, Ansermet's recording of The Nutcracker is in a league of its own, and many will find fascinating his own sequencing of numbers from Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. Refined, yet passionate, many of the pieces on these recordings make their first international appearance on CD. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky Gala
Tchaikovsky: | Swan Lake, Op. 20 (excerpts) Vladimir Bourmeister (Choreography & staging) & Roberta Guidi di Bagno (Sets & costumes) Polina Semionova, Roberto Bolle, Maurizio Licitra, Gianni Ghisleni & Flavia Vallone Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (excerpts) Marius Petipa (Choreography) & Franca Squarciapino (Costumes) Marta Romagna, Antonino Sutera & Daniela Cavalleri The Nutcracker Ballet, Op. 71 (Excerpts) Patrice Bart (Choreography and staging) & Luisa Spinatelli (Costumes) Nadja Saidakova & Ronald Savkovic |
This Tchaikovsky Gala is a must for ballet fans, showcasing Roberto Bolle, resident star of La Scala, and Polina Semionova, Nadja Saidakova and Ronald Savkovic, all Berlin State Ballet principals, in their very first appearances on the Scala stage. Some of the most exacting and demanding moments from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker are presented, showing to great effect the prowess of the corps de ballet and stars alike. David Coleman conducts musical highlights from the three ballets all set in the Act III décor of Swan Lake: Prince Siegfried's birthday festivities are being held in the castle hall, a veritable tourbillon of dances, from Czardas to Spanish, Neapolitan to Mazurka all of which leads into the celebrated 'Black Swan' pas de deux, starring Roberto Bolle and Polina Semionova. As if by magic, another homage to Tchaikovsky appears:Aurora and her four princes in the immortal 'Rose Adagio', encompassing both dreamy sweetness and technical strength, being one of the most difficult choreographic passages of Sleeping Beauty alongside the 'Blue Bird' pas de deux and the Act II pas de deux from The Nutcracker performed here by Nadja Saidakova and Ronald Savkovic.This perfect gift for any ballet lover is also available in Blu-Ray HD format for the best quality video and audio available. Bonus: " Etoiles et petits pas" by Liliane de Kermadec. Backstage at La Scala with the artists in rehearsals (31 minutes) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Tchaikovsky: Souvenir Russe
Latvian violinist Baiba Skride proffers a collection of works for violin and orchestra by Tchaikovsky, the composer for which she feels the greatest affinity. Featuring the Violin Concerto, the album also includes Skride's interpretation of Tchaikovsky's triptych Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op.42 in this rarely-heard version for violin and orchestra. She completes her musical souvenir album of the great Russian composer with two pieces from Swan Lake “To subdue the inevitable scepticism as to whether yet another version of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is really necessary, Nelsons responds with an orchestral canvas that is full of drama, lively with nuance and injected with bravura and also with sensitivity. His fellow Latvian, Baiba Skride, similarly rejects any ideas about just digging over old ground, and her interpretation, at once maturely considered and spontaneous, has a freshness and vivacity.” The Telegraph, 17th May 2008 (on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto) “A natural musicaon to the ends of her fingertips.” Classic FM Magazine “Baiba Skride is arguable the most exciting violin talent to have emerged since Elisabeth Batiashvilli a few years back… she weaves her way through the Tchaikovsky as though she is unfolding a poetic narrative.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** “…the Tchaikovsky Concerto has rarely sounded more lyrical, more "feminine". The wintry colours of the slow movement are lovely, with Skride's many shades of pale elegantly dovetailed into flute and clarinet adornments.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Weekend Classics - A Tchaikovsky WeekendExcerpts from Ballet Suites: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphonie No. 2, Eugene Onegin & Capriccio italien
Rostropovich, Abbado & Fricsay Weekend Classics lets you discover the world and power of classical music while offering its services as a companion to your weekend and leisure activities. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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