| | |  | Ballets & Classics | Home » » » Choreography By Balanchine / Chaconne, Prodigal Son, Ballo Della Regina, Elegie, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux | | | | | | | Description: | | Item Name: Choreography By Balanchine / Chaconne, Prodigal Son, Ballo Della Regina, Elegie, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux; Studio: Nonesuch | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell | | Format:
| Classical, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Nonesuch | | Run Time:
| 110 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| June 08, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
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28 of 28 found the following review helpful:
also a dream come trueApr 21, 2007
PBS: Great Performances > Dance In America > Choreography by Balanchine >:
Parts 3 and 4 of 4 (1977)
I saw some of this series on TV back in 1978. I was awe-striken. I was a twenty-year fan of Stravinsky's music already and impressed by the composer's high opinion of this dance master (Mr. B). Seeing it for myself (being unable to go to NYC and actually attend) was totally thrilling and indelibly memorable.
After getting the first DVD and playing it to death, I hungered for more and bought this one. I'm sure glad I did.
Chaconne, with music by Gluck, is ravishingly beautiful stuff. The costuming is all white, so the series producer talked Mr. B into a scenario and decor, with clouds, mountains and (?) other stuff. I saw ballet to this music in the opera Orpheus and Eurydice many decades ago. I recall the male dancers wore greco-roman soldier costumes. This version was a specialty made by Mr. B when he and his American Ballet Company were employed by the Metropolitan Opera. Apparently the opera management didn't see any need for more than a perfunctory dance number in the opera. Mr. B thought he had full license to extend the role of dancing in opera. That partnership did not survive.
Prodigal Son, with music by Prokofiev, is the real reason I ordered this DVD. This work is a landmark, both unusual for Balanchine and for Diaghilev too. This was the last work created for the old impressario (and his Ballet Russe) while he lived. I suppose it counter-balances the plotless dances on the first DVD. The biblical parable is reduced in complexity, with the son's degradation reduced to bad associates plus a seductress. The end of the ballet I had seen already on TV: the son crawls to his father, literally climbs into his father's arms and gets wrapped in his father's robe. The son is played by Michail Baryshnikov.
I have noted my favorites. The other dances on this DVD are swell. I especially like the two Tschaikowsky works.
29 of 42 found the following review helpful:
FINALLY!...ONE OF THE MISSING BALLET JEWELS ON DVDJun 16, 2004
A MUST HAVE for ballet dancers, dance teachers and coreographers. This dvd bring us back the presition in movements and beatifull lines of Mr. genius Balanchine's creations. kind of old videorecordings...but still the magic on it. there are some works missing on this dvd and the other one (tzigane/jewels...etc) like serenade, star and stripes...etc...we hope in the future comes out more balanchines dvds with all the great coreographies and great music that he always used.
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