SwanQueen Posted March 1, 2003 Share Posted March 1, 2003 Hi! I am trying to track the down the music from Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and I am wondering if anyone knows where I can find it. Also, what is the actual title of the music? If I knew this it would help me search for it. Thanks in advance! Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted March 1, 2003 Share Posted March 1, 2003 It wouldn't help; it's just called "pas de deux". Try: http://www.balletalert.com/ballets/Petipa/...0Lake/score.htm Scroll down to the Svetlanov recording on Melodiya. Link to comment
SwanQueen Posted March 3, 2003 Author Share Posted March 3, 2003 I searched the web for the recording that you specified and could not find it. Do you know of any place where I can purchase it? Thanks! Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 It does say "out of stock" on Amazon.com, which means it's temporarily out, but that there is a reissue contemplated. In the meantime, if you are in more or less of a hurry, you can try to order a used copy there. Link to comment
silvy Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 Some time ago I purchased the 3 Tchaikowsky ballets as directed by Andre Previn (I think the orchestra is the London Sympony). And the Tchas pdd is in Swan Lake, in the place where you wud expect to hear the Black Swan ppd. It is very good, and at good speed. Hope I have been of use. good luck!!! silvy Link to comment
SwanQueen Posted March 31, 2003 Author Share Posted March 31, 2003 Thanks everyone! I ended up finding the music at a huge music store in Philadelphia. It was like Silvy said, in the place where you would normally find the Black Swan pas music. I'm just glad I found it! Link to comment
R S Edgecombe Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 It might be worth mentioning the provenance of this music, though many at this site will know it already. When Sobeschanskaya took over Odette from Karpakova after the Moscow premiere, she wanted a better pas de deux than Reisiger had provided her predecessor. So she went off to St Petersburg to canvas Petipa, who obliged with a pas de deux to Minkus music. When she returned, Tchaikovsky refused to permit the interpolation, and wrote new music over the original Minkus rhythms. One might call this a palimpsest after the recycled papyrus manuscripts in the ancient world, where the original script, though officially scraped off, still glimmers behind the text that has been superimposed on it. You can hear the Minkus connection most clearly in the male variation, which is very like the G major waltz attached to the Don Quixote pas de deux (actually a pas de quatre) in the original Moscow version of Petipa's ballet. Link to comment
grace Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 wow, rodney. YOU're a real asset to this site. thanks for the interesting reading. Link to comment
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