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Universal Records (Japan) |
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Classical |
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CUNJ 480 K2N
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UPC: | 028948064809 |
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Limited Stock
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K2 HD CD |
Numbered edition limited to 1,000 copies
Limited edition K2 HD Mastering Japanese import CD!
In 1967, Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin composed his one-act ballet, "Carmen Suite", for his wife, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. The music, taken from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and arranged for strings and percussion, is not a 19th century pastiche but rather 'a creative meeting of the minds', as Shchedrin put it, with Bizet's melodies reclothed in a variety of fresh instrumental colors (including the frequent use of percussion), set to new rhythms and often phrased with a great deal of sly wit. Initially banned by the Soviet hierarchy as "disrespectful" to the opera for precisely these qualities, the ballet has since become Shchedrin's best-known work and has remained popular in the West as what reviewer James Sanderson of All Music Guide calls "an iconoclastic but highly entertaining retelling of Bizet's opera."
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Carmen Suite |
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Introduction - Andante assai |
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Dance - Allegro |
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First Intermezzo - Allegro moderato - Andante moderato - (attacca:) |
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Changing of the Guard - Moderato |
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Carmen's Entrance and Habanera - Allegro moderato - Quasi Andante |
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Scene - Allegro moderato - Tempo precedente - Andante assai |
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Second Intermezzo - Larghetto |
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Bolero - Allegro vivo |
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Torero - Moderato con stoltezza |
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Torero and Carmen - Lento - Tempo I |
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Adagio - Andante moderato - Adagio |
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Fortune-Telling - Andantino - Andante assai |
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Finale - Allegro - Tempo precedente - Andante assai |
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Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 |
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Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 |
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