Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Etc / Ormandy, Philadelphia

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
October 26, 2009
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILYICH
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Philadelphia Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Eugene, Ormandy
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 26, 2009
    • UPC
      074644634020
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SONY46340
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Introduction

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    2. Act I: Prologue: Pas de six

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    3. Act I: Waltz

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    4. Act I: Pas d'action

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    5. Act II: Panorama

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    6. Act III: March

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    7. Act III: Pas de quatre

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    8. Act III: Pas de caracte

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    9. Act III: Pas de quatre

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    10. Act III: Pas de deux

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    11. Act III: Apotheosis

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    12. I. Overture

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    13. II. Tarantella

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    14. III. Mazurka

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    15. IV. Cossack Dance

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    16. V. Cancan

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    17. VI. Valse lente

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    18. VII. Nocturne

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

    19. VIII. Galop

      Composer: Ottorino Respighi

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

      Conductor: Eugene Ormandy


Ormandy returns with the Philadelphia Orchestra to provide a sumptuous offering of nearly an hour of music from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty ballet that features many favourites (including mine, the "Panorama", taken fairly briskly yet retaining its elegant magic). The playing is exciting and the resonant acoustic brings warmth and sonic spectacle, but rather less in the way of subtlety: it is typical of the Philadelphia/ CBS recordings of the 1960s, but it's certainly very involving. The coupling is a similarly vivacious suite from the Rossini/Respighi La boutique fantasque, a scintillating score to which Ormandy does justice. Thanks to him one immediately notices the sparkling percussion condiment in the "Tarantella". Once more, good sound; resonant and spectacular, but not quite so opulent as in the Tchaikovsky selection. This is worth any collector's money.

-- Gramophone [3/1991]