silvy Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Does anyone know "Pharaoh's daughter" music has been released on CD? Would very much like to have the music. Thanks a lot Silvy
Solor Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 Does anyone know "Pharaoh's daughter" music has been released on CD?Would very much like to have the music. Thanks a lot Silvy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh goodness no. If the music from this ballet was to ever be recorded I would be SHOCKED!
silvy Posted December 12, 2005 Author Posted December 12, 2005 Oh, what a pity! I would be delighted to have that recording....
Myrtha Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Oh goodness no. If the music from this ballet was to ever be recorded I would be SHOCKED! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I got a CD about 15 years ago that had some excerpts from "Pharaoh's Daughter" by Pugni on it. The CD was called "Egyptian Nights" or something like that and had some other music on it. (I'd dig it out for the specifics but it's in a box about 3,000 miles away.)
Joseph Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Is Egyptian Nights the same ballet as "Pharaoh's Daughter?"
rg Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 EGYPTIAN NIGHTS is a one-time petipa-libretto project, w/ choreography by ivanov, intended for a benefit at peterhof, but then cancelled at the last moment and never so performed. fokine then produced ballet in 1908 in st. petersburg; subsequently he reworked it for diaghilev's ballets russes as CLEOPATRA. it began life with a score by arensky; as CLEOPATRA it had additonal music by glazunov, glinka, rimsky-korsakov, taneyev and tcherepnine. (no mention in any of this of pugni. so if the old recording mentioned here included any pugni/pharaoh's daughter selections, it was doing so from 'free association' or some such motivation.)
Solor Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 Myrtha - I found a recording called "Egyptian Nights" on Amazon.com - the music is by Arensky as stated by RG, it is played by the moscow symphony orchestra. Right now the sound on my computer is screwed up so I cant sample the tunes - is this the CD you were talking about? Heres the link - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000468...v=glance&n=5174
Mel Johnson Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 Yes, that's the one. Arensky wrote a lot of stuff, but his best works were on a smaller scale, piano solos and small ensembles like string quartets and wind ensembles. He wrote in styles that made his music FUN to play for the instrumentalists. It's not great ballet music, by any stretch, but it is interesting, with its use of leitmotiv.
Solor Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 so what exactly does this score contain from Pugni's "Pharoah's Daughter"?
Mel Johnson Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 Nothing, that I know of. It all sounds like Russian late-Romantic stuff and just like his brass quintet works, which I used to play.
rg Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 only the original poster can answer what if any pugni was included on this disc called EGYPTIAN NIGHTS. perhaps there were 'bonus' tracks, or perhaps she misremembered.
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