Anastasi Mavrides - The Classical Child at the Ballet
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Artist: Anastasi MavridesPerformer: Metromusic
Edition: Music CD
Format: Single
CD Release Date: 2000-12-01
Music Label: Classical Child
Soundtracks:
- Russian Dance
- Pizzicatti
- Waltz
- Puss 'N Boots & The White Cat
- Les Sylphides
- Dance Of The Reed Pipes
- Sabre Dance
- Polonaise
- Dance Of The Hours
- Prld To Scene II
- Hungarian Dance
- Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy
- Dance Of The Cygnets (Part I)
- The Broken Doll
- Dance Of The Cygnets (Part II)
- Arabian Dance
- Chinese Dance
- Waltz Of The Doll
- The Enchantment
- Waltz Of The Flowers
Music reviews of The Classical Child at the Ballet
Music Review: Digital imitation of art
Rating: 1 Stars
I'll preface my remarks by saying that I'm a classically trained musician with a degree in choral direction. So others, with a perhaps less critical or discerning ear, might like this recording just fine. I found it dreadful. By the second track I was cringing. It sounded, to me, utterly horrific.
But don't take my word for it. Listen to one of these pieces, like the Russian Dance or the Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, and then listen to the same piece from another Amazon CD recorded by a real orchestra. The experiment will speak for itself.
I have nothing against digitally produced music, I have even produced some myself. For some types of music, like New Age, it's wonderful. But this music, which most are used to hearing played on acoustic instruments by some of the world's greatest orchestras, sounds just terrible produced by synthesizer. The selections from Tchaikovsky, which make up the bulk of this CD, are especially a travesty. There are loads of great recordings of these pieces out there without any of this recording's faults.
Another complaint: presenting parts of these pieces out of order, as individual works, is another terrible idea. Each dance in a ballet is like one chapter of a story. Recording various bits, with different pieces shuffled together in random order, is like a book containing only random chapters from different stories.
There is a reason orchestral music doesn't sound good produced on synthesizer, and it has nothing to do with the differences in tone betweed digital and analog. It has to do with tuning, rhythm, dynamics, and inflection. This recording sounds out of tune, as if played by a group of completely deaf musicians, metrically rigid, and utterly lacking any expressive subtlety, which is a pretty good definition of an electronic instrument.
In an orchestra every musician listens carefully to all the others, carefully monitoring the volume and inflection of her playing in response to the conductor's directions and communicating with the other musicians to become part of a complex, but consistent artistic and emotional whole. It's one of the most profound artistic expressions human beings are capable of.
Children aren't stupid. Buy yours a recording of the Nutcracker or Swan Lake by a real orchestra and give them an experience worth their time.
Music is, after all, art.
Description of The Classical Child at the Ballet
The Classical Child at the Ballet, awarded the 1997 Gold Award by the National Association of Parenting Publications, makes a wonderful addition to any child's music library. A volume in the Classical Child series, this disc features 20 pieces of varying volume and tempo from ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty--all scored by Tchaikovsky--to The Fairy Doll by Joseph Bayer and Coppelia by Leo Delibes. As the lovely rhythms and melodies play, young darlings will be inspired toward movement--scampering about like sugarplum fairies, foot tapping to "Les Sylphides," and tippy-toe dancing to "Waltz of the Flowers." --Paige La GroneGeneral CDs
- Styles > Children's Music
- Classical > General
- Ballets & Dances > Ballets
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Delibes, L?o
- ( K ) > Khachaturian, Aram
- ( P ) > Ponchielli, Amilcare
- ( T ) > Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich > All Works by Tchaikovsky
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Romantic (c.1820-1910)
- Ponchielli, Amilcare - Works by Ponchielli
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( D ) - Delibes, L?o - General
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