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00:00 Bacchanal (Samson et Dalila; Camille Saint-Saëns)
06:56 Navarraise (Le Cid; Jules Massenet)
10:03 Galop (The Comedians; Dmitry Kabalevsky)
11:39 Norwegian Dance No. 2 (Edvard Grieg)
14:05 Russian Sailor’s Dance (The Red Poppy; Rheinhold Glière)
17:43 Pizzicato Polka (Sylvia; Léo Delibes)
19:23 Sabre Dance (Gayne Suite; Aram Khachaturian)
21:55 Farandole (L’Arlesienne suite; Georges Bizet)
25:10 Polka (Schwanda the Bagpiper; Jaromír Weinberger)
27:34 Waltz (The Sleeping Beauty; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Felix Slatkin
Recorded in 1956, at Hollywood California
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Critics and public alike were hostile to the first Paris performance of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila. Nevertheless, Liszt produced it at Weimar two years later, and by a circuitous route of successive performances, the opera worked its way around back to Paris. By then, Saint-Saëns was famous and the work was a triumphant success. The ballet music, of which the tempestuous Bacchanale is a part, is touched with Oriental splendor and motifs and is by turns ominous, subtle and voluptuous.
The 19th-century musical romanticist Massenet created a spectacular ballet for the second act of his heroic opera Le Cid. The Navarraise is the last in a series of six dances, each typical of a particular Spanish province. Massenet got the ideas for his main theme while visiting a Spanish inn — from music played at a boisterous wedding party in the room below his.
The Galop from The Comedians by Kabalevsky amply fulfills the promise of its name. This musical steeplechase has all of the percussive elements of hooves galloping over cobblestones, and is spiced with humorous asides and spontaneous variations on its lively main theme.
Grieg's Norwegian Dance No. 2 begins with a quaint and ingenuous folk theme, which soon yields to the urgency of wilder and more passionate emotions. Finally, when the dance has whirled to its furious climax, the engaging folk theme is restated and the composition ends as disarmingly as it began.
The lusty Sailor's Dance from Gliere's ballet The Red Poppy is almost as popular in this country as it is in the composer's native Russia. Its thunderous introduction, and slow and somber first passages, inexorably accelerate to a brilliant and energetic climax.
The boldly imaginative Armenian composer Khachaturian wrote the frenetic, driving and quite modern Sabre Dance for his Gayne ballet. In the years since it was written, the Sabre Dance has made a successful transition from symphony orchestra to dance band without losing any of its power or luster.
While Bizet is best remembered for Carmen, much of the same color, momentum and dramatic contrast animates his L'Arlésienne Suite, arranged from the incidental music to Daudet's play "L'Arlésienne." The flavor, melodies and rhythms of Provence run through the work, and the rousing Farandole is based upon the traditional Provencal circle dance in 6/8 time.
Although Weinberger later turned from native Czech music to composition more international in scope, none of his work has enjoyed more popularity than his ebullient, folk-flavored opera Schwanda. Along with the sedate Fugue, the Polka, presented here, is perhaps the most frequently played selection from its score.
It was once believed that the pavane, a dance in 3/4 time, derived its name from the stately 'pavo' or 'peacock', but it is more likely related to the Italian 'paduane'. Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess is the embodiment of melancholy elegance and was a highly regarded piano selection before it won popularity in its orchestral version.
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00:00 Bacchanal (Samson et Dalila; Camille Saint-Saëns)
06:56 Navarraise (Le Cid; Jules Massenet)
10:03 Galop (The Comedians; Dmitry Kabalevsky)
11:39 Norwegian Dance No. 2 (Edvard Grieg)
14:05 Russian Sailor’s Dance (The Red Poppy; Rheinhold Glière)
17:43 Pizzicato Polka (Sylvia; Léo Delibes)
19:23 Sabre Dance (Gayne Suite; Aram Khachaturian)
21:55 Farandole (L’Arlesienne suite; Georges Bizet)
25:10 Polka (Schwanda the Bagpiper; Jaromír Weinberger)
27:34 Waltz (The Sleeping Beauty; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Felix Slatkin
Recorded in 1956, at Hollywood California
New mastering in 2022 by AB for CMRR
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Critics and public alike were hostile to the first Paris performance of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila. Nevertheless, Liszt produced it at Weimar two years later, and by a circuitous route of successive performances, the opera worked its way around back to Paris. By then, Saint-Saëns was famous and the work was a triumphant success. The ballet music, of which the tempestuous Bacchanale is a part, is touched with Oriental splendor and motifs and is by turns ominous, subtle and voluptuous.
The 19th-century musical romanticist Massenet created a spectacular ballet for the second act of his heroic opera Le Cid. The Navarraise is the last in a series of six dances, each typical of a particular Spanish province. Massenet got the ideas for his main theme while visiting a Spanish inn — from music played at a boisterous wedding party in the room below his.
The Galop from The Comedians by Kabalevsky amply fulfills the promise of its name. This musical steeplechase has all of the percussive elements of hooves galloping over cobblestones, and is spiced with humorous asides and spontaneous variations on its lively main theme.
Grieg's Norwegian Dance No. 2 begins with a quaint and ingenuous folk theme, which soon yields to the urgency of wilder and more passionate emotions. Finally, when the dance has whirled to its furious climax, the engaging folk theme is restated and the composition ends as disarmingly as it began.
The lusty Sailor's Dance from Gliere's ballet The Red Poppy is almost as popular in this country as it is in the composer's native Russia. Its thunderous introduction, and slow and somber first passages, inexorably accelerate to a brilliant and energetic climax.
The boldly imaginative Armenian composer Khachaturian wrote the frenetic, driving and quite modern Sabre Dance for his Gayne ballet. In the years since it was written, the Sabre Dance has made a successful transition from symphony orchestra to dance band without losing any of its power or luster.
While Bizet is best remembered for Carmen, much of the same color, momentum and dramatic contrast animates his L'Arlésienne Suite, arranged from the incidental music to Daudet's play "L'Arlésienne." The flavor, melodies and rhythms of Provence run through the work, and the rousing Farandole is based upon the traditional Provencal circle dance in 6/8 time.
Although Weinberger later turned from native Czech music to composition more international in scope, none of his work has enjoyed more popularity than his ebullient, folk-flavored opera Schwanda. Along with the sedate Fugue, the Polka, presented here, is perhaps the most frequently played selection from its score.
It was once believed that the pavane, a dance in 3/4 time, derived its name from the stately 'pavo' or 'peacock', but it is more likely related to the Italian 'paduane'. Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess is the embodiment of melancholy elegance and was a highly regarded piano selection before it won popularity in its orchestral version.
Album available // The Choir of the Paris Opera (Bizet 'Carmen' ...)
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