Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Once Upon A Dream

Описание: For the 1959 animated film "Sleeping Beauty", Walt Disney asked his music department to adapt themes from the Sleeping Beauty Ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Songwriters Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence borrowed the melody from the Waltz to create the film's signature song, "Once Upon a Dream". I decided to combine both works by playing from the Tchaikovsky score, and by singing the Disney song.






There's been renewed interest in this song with the release of a new film retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story called "Maleficent", starring Angelina Jolie, for which a cover by Lana Del Rey was recorded. Yes, that "new song" is actually a melody composed by Tchaikovsky in 1889. It was sung by opera star Mary Costa in the 1959 film.

Once Upon a Dream. Music and Lyrics by Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence. (1952)

"I know you! I walked with you once upon a dream. I know you! The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam. Yet, I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem. But if I know you, I know what you'll do; you'll love me at once the way you did once upon a dream."

Intro and Outro: La Grande Valse Villageoise from the Sleeping Beauty Ballet, Opus 66 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1889).
Transcription for piano solo by Alexander Siloti (1863-1945). I have often made my own solo piano trancriptions for my videos, but for this work, I wanted to look to the Siloti transcription. Alexander Siloti studied harmony with Tchaikovsky at the Moscow Conservatory, and it was Tchaikovsky himself who entrusted the task of transcribing his ballet to solo piano to friend and pupil, Siloti.

Colleen Kobussen, Singer/ Pianist.

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"La Belle au bois dormant" ballet, musique de Tchaikovsky. Arrangé pour le piano à 2 mains par Alexandre Ziloti.

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Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский. Чайковского

Переложение для 2 руки: Александр Ильич Зилоти, Aleksandr Iljič Ziloti