Offenbach: Les Contes dHoffmann / Act 3 — Barcarolle (Arr. For Violin, Cello, Piano And String Ensemble By Aleksandar Sedlar) · Nemanja Radulovic · Camille Thomas · Double Sens
Offenbach: Les Contes dHoffmann / Act 3, Barcarolle (Arr. For Violin, Cello, Piano And String Ensemble By Aleksandar Sedlar)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 2017-09-15
Producer: Rainer Maillard
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Philip Krause
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Zoran Marinkovic
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Author: Jules Barbier
Author: Michel Carré
Arranger, Work Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana — Intermezzo sinfonico · Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra · Neeme Järvi
Barcarolle — Favourite Opera Intermezzi
℗ 1990 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 1990-01-01
Producer, Recording Producer: Lennart Dehn
Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer, Editor: Michael Bergek
Composer: Pietro Mascagni
Author: Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Author: Guido Menasci
Les contes dHoffmann, Act II: Barcarolle (Arr. for Choir) · Ave Sol · Jacques Offenbach · Julian Reynolds
Arias for All
℗ 2017 Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 2017-05-05
Producer: Anna Barry
Executive Producer: Liam Toner
Recording Engineer: Andris Uze
Mixing Engineer: Ivars Ozols
Mixing Engineer: Elina Karaseva
Mastering Engineer: Neil Hutchinson
Mastering Engineer: Jonathan Stokes
The Polovtsian Dances (or Polovetsian Dances) are perhaps the best known selections from Alexander Borodins opera Prince Igor (1890). They are often played as a stand-alone concert piece. Borodin was the original composer, but the opera was left unfinished at his death and was subsequently completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. In the opera the dances are performed with chorus, but concert performances often omit the choral parts.
The Best of Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (23 April 1891 — 5 March 1953)
Prokofiev is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include five piano concertos, nine completed piano sonatas and seven symphonies, and such widely heard works as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet — from which «Dance of the Knights» is taken — and Peter and the Wolf.
A graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatory, Prokofiev initially made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist, achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his instrument and with his first two piano concertos. Prokofievs first major success breaking out of the composer-pianist mould was with his purely orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes; Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev — Chout, Le pas dacier and The Prodigal Son — which at the time of their original production were all highly successful. Prokofievs greatest interest, however, was opera, and he composed several works in that genre, including The Gambler and The Fiery Angel. Prokofievs one relative success in that genre during his lifetime was The Love for Three Oranges, composed for Chicago Opera and subsequently performed over the following decade in Europe and Russia.
After the Revolution, Prokofiev left Russia with the official blessing of the Soviet minister Anatoly Lunacharsky, and he lived in the United States, then Germany, then Paris, during which time he married a Spanish singer, Carolina Codina, with whom he had two sons. Because of the increasing economic deprivation of Europe, Prokofiev returned to Russia in 1936. He enjoyed some success there — notably with Lieutenant Kijé, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, and perhaps above all with Alexander Nevsky. The Nazi invasion of the USSR spurred him to compose his most ambitious work, an operatic version of Leo Tolstoys War and Peace. In 1948 Prokofiev was criticized for «anti-democratic formalism», and with his income severely curtailed was forced to compose Stalinist works such as On Guard for Peace. However, he also enjoyed personal and artistic support from a new generation of Russian performers, notably Sviatoslav Richter and Mstislav Rostropovich: for the latter he composed his Symphony-Concerto, whilst for the former he composed his ninth piano sonata.
( 0:00 ) Symphony No. 1 In D Major, Op. 25: Allegro
( 4:48 ) Romeo And Juliet, Ballet, Op. 64: Juliet As A Young Girl
( 8:22 ) Romeo And Juliet, Ballet, Op. 64: Montagues And Capulets
( 14:15 ) Romeo And Juliet, Ballet, Op. 64: Madrigal
( 18:15 ) Romeo And Juliet, Ballet, Op. 64: Folk Dance
( 22:10 ) Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 19: Moderato
( 31:05 ) Symphony No. 5 In B Flat Major, Op. 100: Allegro Marcato
( 39:40 ) Lieutenant Kijé, Suite, Op. 60: Troika
( 42:40 ) Love For Three Oranges — March
( 44:31 ) Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Major, Op. 26: Adante — Allegro
( 53:58 ) Waltzes, Suite For Orchestra, Op. 110 — No. 1: Since We Met
( 1:00:14 ) Symphony No. 1 In D Major, Op. 25: Molto Vivace
( 1:04:36 ) Cinderella, Ballet Suite No. 1 Op. 107: Fairy Godmother And The Winter Fairy
( 1:09:56 ) Cinderella, Ballet Suite No. 1 Op. 107: Cinderella Goes To The Ball
( 1:12:55 ) Cinderella, Ballet Suite No. 1 Op. 107: Cinderellas Waltz
( 1:15:40 ) Cinderella, Ballet Suite No. 1 Op. 107: Midnight
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
French Opera Buffa «La Vie Parisienne» (The Parisian Life), frist performed in 1866 (Second Empire) by Jacques Offenbach, french composer mostly known for his «Orpheus Cancan».
From the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, December 2012
Valery Gergiev — conductor
Vasily Vainonen — choreography
Benjamin Tyrrell — stage and costumes
Piotr Tchaikovsky — The Nutcracker
Chapters:
0:00 Overture
29:39 Act I
52:08 Prelude to Act II
55:58 Act II Spanish Dance
1:02:29 Act II Eastern Dance
1:07:12 Act II Chinese Dance
1:08:36 Act II Trepak — Russian Dance
1:09:59 Act II Pas de trois — Dance of the reed pipes
1:13:38 Act II Waltz of the Flowers
1:21:05 Act II Pas de deux — Intrada
1:27:57 Act II Pas de deux — Tarantella
1:29:05 Act II Pas de deux — Dance of the sugar plum fairy
1:31:31 Act II Pas de deux — Coda
1:33:32 Final Waltz and Apotheosis
— Cast — Masha the Princess: Alina Somova
The Nutcracker Prince: Vladimir Shklyarov
Masha: Alexandra Korshunova
Stahlbaum: Vladimir Ponomaryov
His wife: Alexandra Gronskaya
Luisa: Alena Mashintseva
Franz: Pavel Miheyev
Drosselmeyer: Fyodor Lopukhov
The Grandmother: Lira Khuslamova
The Grandfather: Stanislav Burov
The Nanny: Valeria Karpina
The Nutcracker: Pavel Miheyev
Clown: Konstantin Ivkin
Doll: Yana Selina
Blackamoor: Alexei Popov
The Mouse King: Soslan Kulaev
Waltz of the Snowflakes (Act II): Valeria Martynyuk, Yana Selina and artists of the ballet
Elegant Ladies and Gentlemen: Viktoria Brilyova, Ksenia Dubrovina, Boris Zhurilov, Konstantin Zverev
Dancers in Act II:
Spanish Dance: Nadezhda Batoeva, Denis Zainetdinov
Eastern Dance: Elena Bazhenova and artists of the ballet
Chinese Dance: Valeria Martynyuk, Grigori Popov
Trepak (Russian Dance): Polina Rassadina, Ksenia Romashova, Mikhail Berdichevski
Pas de trois (Dance of the reed pipes): Eleonora Sevenard, Yulia Zolotykh, Roman Surkov
Waltz of the Flowers: Viktoria Brilyova, Ksenia Ostreikovskaya, Diana Smirnova, Yuliana Chereshkevich, Andrei Ermakov, Kirill Safin, Kamil Yangurazov, Konstantin Zverev and artists of the ballet
Pas de deux — Intrada
Pas de deux — Tarantella
Pas de deux — Dance of the sugar plum fairy
Pas de deux — Coda
Final Waltz and Apotheosis
The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky‘s eternal classic, in the choreography by Vasily Vainonen, is a colorful and sensuous dance production: dance in the highest perfection and mastery of modern technology.
This successful production is recorded exclusively for EuroArts Music. The film creates spectacular images of this great ballet production for the viewer. Under the direction of Andreas Morell, this historically unique Nutcracker promises to be a breathtaking experience.
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