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ID: QTZ2037 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Ballet Music Subcollection: Orchestra The beautiful new ballet score by Stephen Warbeck, the Academy Award-winning composer of the filmscore for Shakespeare in Love.
The score for this "Peter Pan" was written over a period of months after a meeting with David Nixon early in 2004. Like many people, I knew the story very well, but I knew it as a mass of different memories : a play, a pantomime, a book, a cartoon and various snippets and versions that we often come across. The one prevailing sympathy I had was for Captain Hook. So after meeting David and Pat Doyle I went back to the book to rediscover the other characters. I was surprised by how, as an adult, my sympathies had changed and I soon started to enjoy the other characters.
The way in to writing this score was through Tinkerbell -I started the ballet with the section that I thought was central to the story: Tinkerbell's sacrifice. Originally this part was twenty five minutes long and David Nixon 'phoned me and pointed out that this bit of the story did not justify such an extended dance. Various other much smaller changes were made during the process of composition (with the invaluable help of John Longstaff) and with our weekly 'phone conversations David and I gradually arrived at the final score. Because of the nature of a piece like this, while writing the music I had strong visual images of how the ballet would look, how Hook would enter, how he would fight, how Tinkerbell would die. how Mr. darling would greet his sons and so on. But unlike composition for film, none of these things existed yet and so when the actual choreography develops it was often a total surprise.
I thoroughly enjoyed the collaboration with David Nixon and Patricia Doyle and I was delighted with the excellence of the musicianship under the direction of John Pryce-Jones and his music team.
Stephen Warbeck
Stephen Warbeck - Peter Pan - A Ballet in 2 Acts
Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra - John Pryce-Jones, conductor |
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ID: QTZ2056 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Ballet Music Subcollection: Orchestra En garde! Cardinal Richelieu is plotting against Queen Anne. Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, together with the spirited D'Artagnan have vowed to protect France at all costs. Meanwhile the young D'Artagnan is falling madly in love with the Queen's Lady in Waiting, Constance.
David Nixon's ballet, The Three Musketeers is a great combination of action packed sword fights, comedy, fun and some beautiful romantic duets between the Queen and her secret lover, the Duke of Buckingham and D'Artagnan and Constance.
Set to a sweeping score of music by the late British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, Northern Ballet Theatre's swashbuckling production brings together stunning sets, amazing costumes, thrilling sword fights and traditional ballet in an evening that the whole family can enjoy.
Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra
David Nixon's The Three Musketeers
Music by Malcolm Arnold
Arranged and orchestrated by John Longstaff
Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra
John Pryce-Jones, conductor |
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ID: CDC001 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Ballet Music Subcollection: Orchestra Music for the Derek Deane Production for English National Ballet
In 1995, English National Ballet commissioned a score for a full length ballet, based on Lewis Carroll’s immortal masterpiece, Alice in Wonderland. The one stipulation and challenge was for a score to be based on the music of Tchaikovsky. Carl Davis accepted the challenge and a smash hit was born!
The centre of the score is derived from Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young. Davis also drew on Tchaikovsky’s Theatre Music, Tone Poems and Operas, as well as the beautiful waltz from the Fifth Symphony for The Garden of Living Flowers. This highly successful production was revived many times, including performances at the Company’s London Coliseum seasons. Pittsburgh Ballet in the U.S. has already staged the ballet in April, 2008 and plan to continue performing it. ENB was invited to take the ballet to Hong Kong in March, 2009 and plans a further U.K. tour in 2010.
Alice in Wonderland marks the launch of the Carl Davis Collection. There are four projects planned for release in 2009: Alice in Wonderland; the prize-winning soundtrack to Hannah Davis and David Conolly’s feature film The Understudy; music for the BBC TV series Cranford and the ballet Cyrano commissioned from Carl Davis by The Birmingham Royal Ballet, choreographed by David Bintley and premiered in 2007. This ballet will go on a national tour including Sadler’s Wells in Autumn 2009.
The Carl Davis Collection has far-reaching plans to produce all major works on both CD and DVD of the compositions of Carl Davis. The Repertoire for the following two years is already in preparation. |
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ID: CDMAN138 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: Cello Recorded by Petersburg Recording Studio, 1977
Dido, Queen of Cathage - Eugenia Gorokhovskaya
Aeneas, a Trojan prince - Nikolay Kaloshin
Belinda - Valentina Kozyreva
Sorceress - Nadezhda Vainer
1st witch - Valentina Gagen
2nd witch - Galina Pavlova
Alexander Demurjan, cello
Chamber choir, Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, conductor Valentin Nesterov |
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ID: CDMAN160 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Ballet Music Subcollection: Orchestra Recorded by Petersburg Recording Studio, 1982 |
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ID: OAHD5001D CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Collection: Documentary Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, DTS Surround Sound, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 2 April 2007
Run Time: 146 minutes
Agnès Letestu, José Martinez, Karl Paquette & Muriel Hallé
Paris Opera Ballet & Paris Opera Orchestra, Vello Pähn
Please note, this High Definition DVD is not playable on a standard DVD player.
Agnes Letestu and Jose Martinez take the central roles of Odette and Siegried in Rudolf Nureyev's passionate dreamlike interpretation of Tchaikovsky's famous ballet, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet and accompanied by the Paris Opera Orchestra directed by Vello Pähn. |
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ID: OAHD5003D CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Collection: Documentary Dancer: Patricia Barker, Paul Gibson, Seth Belliston, Lisa Apple, Julie Tobiason, Ross Yearsley, Jeffrey Stanton, Timothy Lynch
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, Dolby, PAL
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 1 Oct 2007
Run Time: 94 minutes
Choreographed by the artistic genius George Balanchine, Shakespeare's comedy of magic and love's delusions, set to the music of Felix Mendelssohn, is a guaranteed favourite. The Pacific Northwest Ballet is recorded live at London's newly restored Sadler's Wells Theatre in February 1999, with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Stewart Kershaw in this award-winning production. Filmed in High Definition BLU-RAY. |
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ID: PTC5186330 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Collection: Ballet Music Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186017 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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