goodridge_winners Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Im wanting to eventually write one, and I dont have much knowledge of ballet music, so i thought...why not post a stupid (curteously quoted from DOFTS) thread asking people what their favourite pieces are. I particuarly like the ballets of stravinsky...The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voce Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeysinfezzes Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Appalachian Spring and Rodeo by Aaron Copland. I particularly like ballets that are full of any dynamic energy and sexual energy, like those of Stravinsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Fawkes Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I was going to say "In before Stravinsky!" but.... damn. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Lee Graham Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I have a soft spot in my heart for Tchaikowsky's ballets, particularly "The Nutcracker." I really enjoy them. Dramatic and passionate, yet still somewhat proper. I have fond memories of playing it for a number of years in a pit orchestra - back when smaller companies still used pit orchestras; none of us ever got rich off what we made in that pit, but I guess it still got too expensive to sustain. I'd also like to see a staging of a Delibes ballet sometime, the Mazurka from "Coppelia" being a concert favourite of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenor10 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Well lately, people are forgetting that many standard Stravinsky pieces are actually ballets. I love them. But if we are talking a true ballet, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet!!! Amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DOFTS Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Appalachian Spring, enough said. (Note I never said all your threads were stupid, I just said that threads you have been posting were stupid.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarinetMicheal Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I love The Nutcracker but I espically love Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. I watched a video the other day on the first performence of it, it was funny with the crowd going nuts. The ballet part of it made me laugh to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanticist Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Seriously, the finale to swan lake..the music alone is fit for an "orchestra-alone" performance, coupled with the ballet and the simply fantastic beautiful finale, it is tear jerking (especially with the tragic ending when all the swans die) :sadtears: :happytears: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yagan Kiely Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Prok and Shosta ballets. Hmm... Tchaik and Stravinsky... Russian make good ballets.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanticist Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Hmm... Tchaik and Stravinsky... Russian make good ballets.... Agreed! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardener Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Hmm, do French baroque operas count as ballet music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yagan Kiely Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I wouldn't. they just have ballet in them So do some Mozart operas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spherenine Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 As I figured, tons of "Rite of Spring." For me? "Rite of Spring." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodridge_winners Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 you know what sucks about the rite of spring...its so difficult...so hardly anyone will record it haha. I know, there are lots of recordings of it, but compare that to the amounts of recordings of "The Firebird". I REALLY want to own on CD Bernstein's interpretation of it (The Rite)...i saw the masterclasses on youtube (something i recommend you do if you havent)...Stravinsky said that when he heard bernsteins interpretation...he said "Wow" or something like that haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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