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Verdi: Complete Ballet Music

Contemporary Romantic Dramatic Uplifting Spiritual
$29.99

Details

Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Artist
Munich Radio Orchestra
Format
CD
Label
BR Klassik
Released
Nov 08, 2024
Catalog #
BRK900341
UPC
4035719003413

About

Following the conventions of the Paris Opera, Giuseppe Verdi was also obliged to compose ballet music for the French premieres or first performances of his stage works. Between 1847 and 1894, he wrote a total of seven so-called divertissements, some extensive, for Jerusalem, Les vêpres siciliennes, Le trouvere, MacBeth, Don Carlos, Aida and Otello. With catchy melodies, lively, accentuated rhythms, descriptive sound effects and vivid gestures, but above all with incredibly colourful instrumentation, he succeeded in giving new impetus to the ballet music of his day. While the ballet music was generally omitted from productions of Verdi's operas for a long time - with the exception of Aida - it has recently been performed increasingly often and linked to the dramaturgy of the respective work. These beautiful, well-crafted pieces of music should no longer be withheld from the public. On the new double CD from BR-KLASSIK, the Munich Radio Orchestra and it's chief conductor Ivan Repusic present Verdi's complete ballet music. In 19th-century Italian operas, a ballet was not part of the composition but was performed either between the acts or after the opera performance - and was usually a work created by a ballet composer who had little or no connection to the operatic work in question. The strict convention at the Paris Opera, however, was that an extensive dance interlude had to be included as a divertissement in the third act of a grand opera. So if an Italian opera composer wanted to have his works performed in Paris (and who would not, given the international importance of that great opera house in Europe's leading musical metropolis), ballet music had to be provided as well. In the case of works originally written for the Paris Opera, the ballet was included in the French-language libretto from the outset, and ballet music also had to be newly added to all existing works as well. Italian opera composers such as Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi were hardly ever enthusiastic about this French preference for extensive dance interludes in the third act, but they had to bow to convention. Verdi's ballet music for Les vêpres siciliennes (Les quatre saisons - The Four Seasons) and Jerusalem was the most extensive he created. In the dance sequence composed for Le trouvere, which utilises musical material from the gypsy scenes, he created a close musical and dramaturgical link with the stage action. He composed extensive ballet music for MacBeth to illustrate the Hecate scenes of Shakespeare's drama. In the third act of Don Carlos, a Ballet de la Reine entitled La Peregrina is performed in Queen Elisabeth's gardens to celebrate the coronation anniversary of the Spanish King Philip the following day. And for the premiere of Aida in Cairo, there were no obligations regarding the design of the dance interludes, which is why Verdi probably came closest to his ideal of linking the dances as directly as possible to the opera's plot. His shortest ballet music, with oriental-sounding dances, was composed for Otello.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Otello, Act III: Ballabile 05:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    Otello, Act III: Ballabile
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  3. 2 Act III: Allegro vivacissimo 02:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act III: Allegro vivacissimo
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  4. 3 Act III: Andante 04:53
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act III: Andante
    Duration
    04:53
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  5. 4 Act III: Waltz: Allegro vivacissimo 02:51
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act III: Waltz: Allegro vivacissimo
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  6. 5 Jérusalem, Act III: Pas de quatre 07:21
    Track
    5
    Title
    Jérusalem, Act III: Pas de quatre
    Duration
    07:21
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  7. 6 Jérusalem, Act III: Pas de deux 05:27
    Track
    6
    Title
    Jérusalem, Act III: Pas de deux
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  8. 7 Jérusalem, Act III: Pas de solo 07:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    Jérusalem, Act III: Pas de solo
    Duration
    07:15
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  9. 8 Jérusalem, Act III: Pas d'ensemble 03:26
    Track
    8
    Title
    Jérusalem, Act III: Pas d'ensemble
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  10. 9 Tempo di Valzer non tanto mosso - Allegro agitato - Tempo di Valzer - 10:35
    Track
    9
    Title
    Tempo di Valzer non tanto mosso - Allegro agitato - Tempo di Valzer -
    Duration
    10:35
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  11. 10 Prestissimo - Allegro assai sostenuto - Finale 05:33
    Track
    10
    Title
    Prestissimo - Allegro assai sostenuto - Finale
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  12. Disc 2
  13. 1 Aida, Act I: Danza sacra delle sacerdotesse 02:13
    Track
    1
    Title
    Aida, Act I: Danza sacra delle sacerdotesse
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  14. 2 Aida, Act II: Danza dei piccoli schiavi mori 01:34
    Track
    2
    Title
    Aida, Act II: Danza dei piccoli schiavi mori
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  15. 3 Aida, Act II: Ballabile 04:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    Aida, Act II: Ballabile
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  16. 4 Act III: Pas des Bohémiens 02:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act III: Pas des Bohémiens
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  17. 5 Act III: Gitanilla 02:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act III: Gitanilla
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  18. 6 Act III: Ensemble 01:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act III: Ensemble
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  19. 7 Act III: Sevillana 04:26
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act III: Sevillana
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  20. 8 Act III: Echo du soldat 03:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act III: Echo du soldat
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  21. 9 Act III: La Bohémienne 07:50
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act III: La Bohémienne
    Duration
    07:50
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  22. 10 Act III: Galop 02:36
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act III: Galop
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  23. 11 Act III: Le quattro stagioni: L'hiver (Winter) 06:55
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act III: Le quattro stagioni: L'hiver (Winter)
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  24. 12 Act III: Le quattro stagioni: La printemps (Spring) 07:51
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act III: Le quattro stagioni: La printemps (Spring)
    Duration
    07:51
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  25. 13 Act III: Le quattro stagioni: L'ete (Summer) 05:35
    Track
    13
    Title
    Act III: Le quattro stagioni: L'ete (Summer)
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić
  26. 14 Act III: Le quattro stagioni: L'automne (Autumn) 09:25
    Track
    14
    Title
    Act III: Le quattro stagioni: L'automne (Autumn)
    Duration
    09:25
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Ensemble
    Münchner Rundfunkorchester
    Conductor
    Ivan Repušić