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Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Etc / Ormandy, Philadelphia

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Composer
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILYICH
Artist
Eugene, Ormandy
Format
CD
Label
Sony Masterworks
Released
Oct 26, 2009
Catalog #
SONY46340
UPC
074644634020

About

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]

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. 1 Act I: Introduction 04:12
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act I: Introduction
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  2. 2 Act I: Prologue: Pas de six 11:46
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act I: Prologue: Pas de six
    Duration
    11:46
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  3. 3 Act I: Waltz 04:34
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act I: Waltz
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  4. 4 Act I: Pas d'action 10:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act I: Pas d'action
    Duration
    10:22
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  5. 5 Act II: Panorama 02:44
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act II: Panorama
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  6. 6 Act III: March 03:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act III: March
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  7. 7 Act III: Pas de quatre 04:00
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act III: Pas de quatre
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  8. 8 Act III: Pas de caracte 01:41
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act III: Pas de caracte
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  9. 9 Act III: Pas de quatre 01:59
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act III: Pas de quatre
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  10. 10 Act III: Pas de deux 04:02
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act III: Pas de deux
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  11. 11 Act III: Apotheosis 02:10
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act III: Apotheosis
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  12. 12 I. Overture 02:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Overture
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  13. 13 II. Tarantella 02:19
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Tarantella
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  14. 14 III. Mazurka 03:06
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Mazurka
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  15. 15 IV. Cossack Dance 02:13
    Track
    15
    Title
    IV. Cossack Dance
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  16. 16 V. Cancan 02:00
    Track
    16
    Title
    V. Cancan
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  17. 17 VI. Valse lente 04:23
    Track
    17
    Title
    VI. Valse lente
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  18. 18 VII. Nocturne 03:24
    Track
    18
    Title
    VII. Nocturne
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy
  19. 19 VIII. Galop 01:47
    Track
    19
    Title
    VIII. Galop
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ensemble
    Philadelphia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugene Ormandy