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Tchaikovsky?s three ballets ? Swan Lake, The
Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker ? are all much-loved treasures
of the balletic canon, having undergone countless performances and
rein...
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Tchaikovsky?s three ballets ? Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and
The Nutcracker ? are all much-loved treasures of the balletic
canon, having undergone countless performances and
reinterpretations. Yet this was not always so. It took time for
their status to be established, and reactions to the productions
were decidedly mixed during Tchaikovsky?s lifetime. Particularly
saddening is the fact that the great composer died believing Swan
Lake, perhaps his most celebrated ballet today, to be a failure ?
although this is in part due to the fact that the choreography most
associated with the work today was developed after his death. The
Sleeping Beauty, meanwhile, suffered the insult of a lukewarm
imperial reception on its presentation to Tsar Alexander III in
1890; and Tchaikovsky himself believed The Nutcracker to be an
inferior work, ?infinitely worse than Sleeping Beauty?, in his own
words.We are lucky, then, that choreographers, conductors and other
artists have continued to acknowledge the value of these
masterworks, and continued to develop them over many decades,
bringing them into their current, incomparable form. On this CD,
the sheer magic of the music is audible from start to finish, and
Tchaikovsky?s audacious gift for melody-crafting is unmistakable.
It is astonishing to imagine how far they have had to come.The
magnificent Royal Philharmonic Orchestra does justice to each
musical world, under the baton of three different and seasoned
conductors, each of whom very much makes his mark on these
multi-interpretable works of genius.Other information:- Recordings
made in 1995, 2009 and 2010.- All three ballets by Tchaikovsky in
one release!- Tchaikovsky?s ballets, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty
and Swan Lake, are by far the most popular ballet music ever
written, and count among the master?s most famous works.
Tchaikovsky, tormented genius, found relief in writing these
brilliant, featherweight works, conjuring up fantasy worlds of feel
good fairy tales. Some numbers have become top-10 Classical
Favourites, such as the Flower Waltz, Waltz of the Swans, Dance of
the Sugar plum Fairy and many more.- Performances by the famous
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- Booklet contains detailed notes on
the music and plot of each work.