Glazunov: The Seasons, Op. 67 (with Score)

Описание: Alexander Glazunov:
The Seasons, ballet, Op. 67 (with Score)
Composed: 1900
Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd
Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Glazunov's ballet The Seasons, Op. 67, was composed for the Russian Imperial Ballet troupe, and first staged in February 1900 at the Mariinsky Theatre under the choreographic direction of Marius Petipa. The work is not, however, a ballet in the conventional sense, lacking as it does any clearly defined scenario. Instead, Glazunov's The Seasons is cast in the form of a series of (appropriately) four tableaux, each of which is further subdivided; this model is similar to that of Tchaikovsky's piano work of the same name, written a quarter-century earlier.

00:00 1. Prélude

Tableau I L’Hiver (Winter)
02:18 2. Scène de l’Hiver
03:43 3. Variation du givre (frost)
04:43 4. Variation de la glace (ice)
05:59 5. Variation de la grêle (hail)
06:52 6. Variation de la neige (snow)
07:42 7. Coda

Tableau II — Le Printemps (Spring)
10:04 8. Entrée de Printemps, Zéphyre, les Fées des fleurs, les oiseaux et les fleurs

Tableau III — L’Été (Summer)
15:56 9. Scène de l’Été
18:02 10. Valse des bleuets et des pavots (Waltz of the Cornflowers and Poppies)
20:02 11. La Barcarolle – Entrée des naïades, le satyres et des faunes
22:12 12. Variation de l’Esprit du maïs
23:17 13. Coda

Tableau IV — L’Automne (Fall)
27:28 14a. Grande bacchanale des saisons—Entrée des saisons
28:19 14b. L’Hiver
28:59 14c. Le Printemps
29:46 14d. Bacchanale
30:05 14e. L’Été
31:16 15. Petit Adagio
35:01 16. Coda générale

Apotheosis
36:47 17. Apothéose: La Révélation des étoiles