Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - A Dramatic Symphony Baltic Sea Philharmonic & Kristjan Järvi

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Introduction:
• 1The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Introduction02:19
• The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I:
• 2The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: March 102:43
• 3The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Dancing Scene: Entrance of the Fairies02:02
• 4The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Pas de Six01:27
• 5The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Crystal Fountain Fairy00:16
• 6The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Enchanted Garden Fairy00:09
• 7The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Breadcrumb Fairy00:32
• 8The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Fairy of the Songbirds00:30
• 9The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Violante (Fairy of Ardent Strong Passions)00:46
• 10The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Lilac Fairy02:29
• 11The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Carabosse (The Bad Fairy)00:46
• 12The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Scene (Aurora's 16th Birthday/Scene of the Knitters)03:52
• 13The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Garland Waltz01:52
• 14The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Aurora is introduced to the Suitors00:44
• 15The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Rose Adagio02:45
• 16The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Dance of the Maids of Honour and Pages00:28
• 17The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Aurora's Variation 101:58
• 18The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Code 100:36
• 19The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act I: Finale (Charm)00:50
• The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II:
• 20The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Introduction (Prince Désiré's Hunting Party)01:16
• 21The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Blind Man's Buff01:20
• 22The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Dance of the Duchesses00:33
• 23The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Dance of the Baronesses00:33
• 24The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Dance of the Marchionesses00:25
• 25The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Farandole (Scene)00:15
• 26The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Dance (Mazurka)01:46
• 27The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Desiré and the Lilac Fairy00:35
• 28The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Pas d'Action: Desiré sees Aurora02:25
• 29The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Aurora's Variation 200:18
• 30The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Coda 200:55
• 31The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Panorama00:41
• 32The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Entr'acte01:31
• 33The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Symphonic Entr'acte. Sleep01:37
• 34The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act II: Finale: Aurora's Awakening01:08
• The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III:
• 35The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: March 200:21
• 36The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Polonaise01:49
• 37The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Pas de Quatre 100:32
• 38The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: The Silver Fairy00:42
• 39The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: The Sapphire Fairy00:41
• 40The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: The Diamond Fairy01:22
• 41The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat00:45
• 42The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Pas de Quatre 200:42
• 43The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Cinderella and Prince Fortuné00:29
• 44The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: The Blue Bird and Princess Florine01:31
• 45The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf00:30
• 46The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Cinderella and Her Prince02:13
• 47The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Tom Thumb, His Brothers and the Ogre01:08
• 48The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Pas de Deux: Entrance02:36
• 49The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Prince Desiré00:52
• 50The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Aurora00:39
• 51The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Pas de Deux: Coda01:16
• 52The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Sarabande01:53
• 53The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Finale02:19
• 54The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Act III: Apotheosis03:43
• Total Runtime01:08:25

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"Durchweg glänzend instrumentiert und zudem melodisch äußerst eingängig - einige Stücke besitzen regelrechten Ohrwurmcharakter" (Fono Forum), "wilde Tänze, zündende Rhythmik, fulminante Chöre und seelenvoll-poetische Momente" (Audio), hießen die Besprechungen über die vorangegangenen Tschaikowsky-Veröffentlichungen ("Schneemädchen" und "Schwanensee") von Kristjan Järvi. Für dieses Album hat Järvi erneut die Höhepunkte von Tschaikowskys berühmter Ballettmusik "Dornröschen" aufgegriffen und zu einer Art Sinfonie arrangiert. Diese Fassung nahm er mit seinem Orchester Baltic Sea Philharmonic auf. Tschaikowskys Partitur für Dornröschen dauert fast drei Stunden. Järvi hat das Ballett zu einer etwa 70-minütigen Fassung verdichtet. Ikonische Szenen, Märchenfiguren und geliebte Tänze werden in einer fesselnden neuen Version dieses magischen russischen Meisterwerks destilliert.

Baltic Sea Philharmonic
Kristjan Järvi, Dirigent

The Baltic Sea Philharmonic
is a unique Nordic orchestra that brings together musicians from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden. In 2018 the Baltic Sea Philharmonic celebrated its tenth anniversary.

The Baltic Sea Philharmonic takes the orchestral concert experience to a new dimension. Every performance is a voyage of musical discovery, as the musicians perform the entire programme from memory, creating a one-of-a-kind artistic journey. Each concert is a unique spectacle of sound, light, visual art and technology, and under the electrifying baton of Music Director and Founding Conductor Kristjan Järvi every performance has a special energy that’s absolutely infectious. But even more than this, as a community of musicians from ten Nordic countries, the Baltic Sea Philharmonic transcends boundaries and has become a movement for bringing people together. Embodying all that is innovative and progressive about the Nordic region, this visionary ensemble is taking the traditional orchestral model further than ever before. ‘It is a living breathing creature, with boundless energy and enthusiasm for the new – an adventure in itself,’ says Kristjan Järvi.

An orchestra born to unite and innovate: Bringing together musicians from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, the Baltic Sea Philharmonic started life in 2008 on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom on the initiative of Thomas Hummel, Director of the Usedom Music Festival – and won immediately acclaim for its performances and its powerful message of unity in a historically divided region. The orchestra plays at renowned festivals and in the most prestigious concert halls in Europe and beyond, including the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Dubai Opera. The world’s finest artists from classical stars such as Julia Fischer, Jonas Kaufmann, Kurt Masur and Gidon Kremer to pop bands like Bastille, have all performed with the orchestra. In 2015 the Baltic Sea Philharmonic’s achievements were honoured with the prestigious European Culture Prize by the European Culture Foundation ‘Pro Europe’. As the orchestra’s international reputation grew, so did its educational ambitions, and it expanded the training and professional development opportunities for its musicians. By now, the orchestra is well known for its innovative programmes such as ‘Waterworks’, ‘Nordic Pulse’, ‘Midnight Sun’ and ‘Divine Geometry’ that throw classical music conventions out of the window and enable audiences and the musicians alike to experience new musical dimensions.

The orchestra’s growing discography with Kristjan Järvi includes three acclaimed recordings for Sony Classical. The first of these, The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure, an arrangement for orchestra of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, was released in 2016. In 2020, two albums were released – a recording featuring the orchestra and Swiss violinist David Nebel in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and the album Sleeping Beauty, with Järvi conducting in his innovative arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s ballet as a dramatic symphony. The Baltic Sea Philharmonic and David Nebel also recorded Järvi’s uplifting piece Aurora for the conductor–composer’s 2020 album Nordic Escapes, which was released on BMG’s Modern Recordings.

Kristjan Järvi
lives and breathes music, using its power to create spaces in which anything is possible. Kristjan Järvi pursues his pioneering ideas as a conductor, producer, composer and arranger. With indomitable spirit he runs his own production company, Sunbeam Productions.

‘Kristjan Järvi has earned a reputation as one of the canniest, and most innovative, programmers on the classical scene’ (Reuters). As a conductor, he is at home on the big international stages, directing great classics from Wagner to Tchaikovsky, as well as Steve Reich and Radiohead.

Kristjan Järvi developed his own unique sound with his New York-based classical-hip-hop-jazz group Absolute Ensemble, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, and Sunbeam´s in-house Band ‘Nordic Pulse’. Kristjan shapes his artistic life and takes expression to the next level with his team at Sunbeam Productions, with whom he creates a new paradigm for multi-sensory performance Xperiences.

At the end of 2020, Kristjan founded a new record label: ‘nEscapes’. Besides online music distribution, it offers its own unique ‘nEscapes Lounges’ to artists as a new listening format.

Kristjan Järvi collaborates internationally with outstanding and creative personalities from the art, music and film scene. For example, he composed music for Tom Tykwer’s prestigious series Babylon Berlin.

As a recording artist, Järvi has more than 60 albums to his credit, from Hollywood soundtracks such as Cloud Atlas, Sense 8 (both productions of the Wachowski sisters, who also made The Matrix), A Hologram for the King (Tom Tykwer), and award-winning albums on Sony Classical and Chandos, to his eponymous series: the Kristjan Järvi Sound Project. Besides his own productions, Kristjan Järvi collaborates internationally with outstanding recording artists like MUM, Bryce Dessner (The National), Hauschka, Robot Koch and Max Richter, and he stars in the ‘Bastille Re-Orchestrated’ documentary on Amazon Prime.

Taking his artistic take on life to the next level with Sunbeam Productions and tours, Järvi continues to pave the way to a whole new sound experience. Founding Sunbeam Productions just a few years ago, the company has created several concert shows since: ‘Waterworks’ (2017/2018), ‘Absolute Club’ featuring Francesco Tristano, ‘Nordic Pulse’ (2018), and ‘Midnight Sun’ (2019). Being a passionate producer, he has also arranged and produced albums in the Sunbeam Studios for Max Richter, Robot Koch and many more.

At the end of 2020, Kristjan founded his own label: ‘nEscapes’, a label that, besides online music distribution, offers its own unique ‘nEscapes Lounges’ as its escapes spaces.

Kristjan is exclusively signed as a composer and producer with BMG Music under its label ‘Modern recordings’. His latest album is called: ‘Nordic Escapes’.

Born in Estonia, Kristjan Järvi emigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in New York City. Kristjan comes from a family of great conductors. His father Neeme and his elder brother Paavo both conduct the greatest orchestras in the world. In 2015, Kristjan relocated his center of life from the USA back to the capital of Estonia, Tallinn.

Kristjan Järvi has ‘earned a reputation as one of the canniest, and most innovative, programmers on the classical scene.’ [Reuters]

Curating and conducting his original, genre-fusing projects and festivals with an individual approach and style, his concerts have been proclaimed a ‘life-enhancing experience.’ [Herald Scotland]

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