Minkus / Todorov / Sofia Nat'L Opera Orch: Don Quixote
Minkus / Todorov / Sofia Nat'L Opera Orch: Don Quixote
Format: CD
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Artist: Minkus / Todorov / Sofia Nat'L Opera Orch
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313206520
Genre: Classical
Leon (Ludwig) Minkus (1826-1917) Don Quixote (Ballet in Three Acts) performed by the Sofia National Orchestra conducted by Nayden Todorov. Recorded at the National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria April 1-7, 2002. Austrian born Minkus settled in Russia where he established a long & successful career with choreographer Marius Petipa for whom Minkus wrote the music for more than fifteen ballets. "As one would expect from a ballet by Minkus, Don Quixote is full of lively dances and attractive melodies, all of it well crafted and colorfully orchestrated, if without the genius of Tchaikovsky and Delibes. That said, it makes for undemanding, entertaining listening, with it's dashes of Spanish coloring (the Spanish dances are especially attractive) and plenty of character dances, such as the Sailor's Dance in Act II, to enjoy. The performance is lively and sympathetic and the recording reasonably good (it lacks a certain richness) at the price, admirers of both light music and ballet should not hesitate: there is plenty to enjoy here."- Penguin Guide.
Tracks:
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Allegro
1.3 Entrance of Don Quixote
1.4 Allegro Assai
1.5 Sancho Panza, Saved from His Pursuers, Is Appointed Don Quixote's Squire
1.6 A Square in Barcelona
1.7 Quiteria (Kitri) Enters
1.8 Quiteria and Basilio
1.9 Moreno
1.10 Scene: Lorenzo, Quiteria and Basilio
1.11 Camacho Enters
1.12 Seguidilla
1.13 Street Dancer and Toreador
1.14 Espada
1.15 Moderato
1.16 Scene of the Toreador
1.17 Street Dancer
1.18 Coda
1.19 Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
1.20 Sancho and the Girls
1.21 Their Friends
1.22 Don Quixote Invites Quiteria to a Minuet
1.23 Basilio with Friends
1.24 Quiteria's Variation
1.25 Coda: Basilio and Quiteria Make Their Escape
1.26 Windmill
1.27 Quiteria and Basilio
1.28 Giga
1.29 Carmencita
2.1 Sola a Gitana
2.2 Spanish Dance
2.3 Sailor's Dance
2.4 Scene
2.5 Coda
2.6 Gypsy Dance I
2.7 Gypsy Dance II
2.8 Scene: Puppet Theatre, Attacked By Don Quixote, Who Then Attacks the Windmill
2.9 Don Quixote Sleeps
2.10 Allegro
2.11 He Dreams of Dulcinea
2.12 Allegretto
2.13 The Queen of the Dryads
2.14 Amour
2.15 Quiteria's Variation As Dulcinea
2.16 Souvenir Du Bal
2.17 Coda
2.18 March
2.19 Scene
2.20 Amour
2.21 Classical Variation I
2.22 Flower Waltz
2.23 Classical Variation II
2.24 Entree
2.25 Dryads' Variation
2.26 Basilio's Variation
2.27 Quiteria's Variation
2.28 Quiteria's Variation (The Fan)
2.29 Coda
2.30 Finale: Spanish Dance
Audio Sample:
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