Bach Double (Concerto for Two Violins in D minor)

Respond to the video from 18:23 to 24:40, the ballet I’ve been looking for the name for a loooooooooong time!!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3561220388511817079

If you can not play the video here, plz go to: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3561220388511817079

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Chopin’s ‘Raindrop’ Prelude in D Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15

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Chopin Ballade No 4 Opus 52 Rubinstein

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Chopin Documentary – The Women Behind The Music

I LOVE Chopin’s music SO MUCH!!! His music speaks full of emotions.

Asides from his life with opera singers, once I heard some people say Chopin’s music was not suitable for ballet because the flaw of the music could not make dancers do much dancing work. I strongly disagree with it.

Chopin and Ballet:

1. Les Sylphides

1. Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1
2. Nocturne in F major, Op. 15, No. 1
3. Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 50, No. 3
4. Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No.2
5. Tarantella in A flat major, Op. 43

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Sylphides)

2. La Dame aux Camélias

The whole ballet is with Chopin’s music although I haven’t got a chance to full scene ballet of La Dame aux Camélias. The video above is La Dame aux Camélias pas de deux with “Chopin’s Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 in G minor” which is the same music used in he great scene from The Pianist:

3. In the Night (choreographed by Jerome Robbins)

(1) ???

(2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfgMQqA9Yzc

(3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JYN6lZZ8CM

(4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gh7N35rD6I

(4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJsm2RmKh30

Sorry for the missing first PDD, but listen to the full scene ballet music with Chopin:

Nocturne Op.27 No.1 in C sharp minor

Nocturne Op.55 No.1 in F minor

Nocturne Op.55 No.2 in E Flat

Nocturne Op.9 No.2 in E flat major

4. Contemporary – Ludmila pagliero, Concour Opera National de Paris

Waltz Op. 64, No. 3

Although this an incomplete video, I do wish to see full scene of this ballet!!! So beautiful!!!

Anymore ballets with Chopin’s music? Is Chopin’s music not suited for ballet?

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Soundtracks of the Tudors

This music brings me tears every time when I listen to it.

The death of Jane Seymour, the only wife of Henry VIII’s received a Queen’s funeral.

I’m an atheist, but chorals, cathedrals and churches make me feel peaceful. Chorals, you don’t have to understand what they’re singing, you just enjoy the melody.

 

The love between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

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Lang Lang and Marc Yu – Schubert Fantasia D940 Duet

Album version

Hmm, I personally prefer Lang Lang and Marc’s version. They put more emotion in this piece. Beautiful!

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Chopin – Nocturne No.13 in C minor, Op.48 No.1

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CHOPIN: Prélude Opus 28 No. 4 in E Minor “Suffocation”

 

Preludes

So much for the preludes. They are very beautiful and are worthy of the closest study and pains, not with a view of perfecting any stereotyped manner of playing each one, but of discovering the various methods which may be employed to bring out their beauty. Half the attraction of a beautiful woman lies in the various dresses she wears. She may be in blue to-day, in grey to-morrow, and in pink the day after, and with every change she appears more beautiful. So it is with the preludes. Each has a large wardrobe of different dresses. Do not, then, always dress them in the same colours.
– Vladimir de Pachmann

 

Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4 — Largo

Walter Gieseking recommends pedalling during the opening of this prelude: “The right-hand upbeat is very important. Pedal first on the second note and hold the same pedal into the first measure.” This prelude was played by organ at Chopin’s funeral. Hans von Bulow called this prelude, Suffocation. It was composed in Majorca, in November and December 1838 and published in 1839; it is dedicated to Camille Pleyel.

http://www.chopinmusic.net/works/preludes/

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Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor, Opus 23

In your whole life time, there’s always something that you must start in your young age.  If you ever miss the time, then you’ll ever be specialized in the fields, such as ballet, or even ‘playing’ classical music.

A proverb says, ‘Never too late to learn.’  Indeed, it is never too late to learn anything if you take learning as a hobby, but it is too late to be a professional or an expert if you start it in your adult age.  . . .

To be continued . . .

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Tchaikovsky June: Barcarolle

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