Swan Lake

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Ernest Ansermet

Swan Lake is a ballet by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, first performed in 1877. The score uses late-Romantic orchestration with prominent string writing, clear dance rhythms and recurring leitmotifs, and it followed his earlier operas and symphonies as part of his mature output; it later influenced ballet composition.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Swan Lake: Introduction. Moderato assai – Act I, No. 1: Scene. Allegro giusto
    5:39
  2. 2.
    Swan Lake, Act I: No. 2. Valse
    6:44
  3. 3.
    Swan Lake, Act I: No. 4. Pas de trios
    6:57
  4. 4.
    Swan Lake, Act I: No. 7. Sujet – No. 8. Danse des Coupes.Tempo di polacca
    4:45
  5. 5.
    Swan Lake, Act II: No. 10. Scene. Moderato
    2:37
  6. 6.
    Swan Lake, Act II: No. 11. Scene. Allegro moderato – No.12. Scene. Allegro
    10:09
  7. 7.
    Swan Lake, Act II: No. 13a. Danses des cygnes. Tempo di Valse / No. 13e. Andante non troppo
    5:46

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Swan Lake, Act II: No. 13: Danses des cygnes. Allegro moderato
    1:18
  2. 3.
    Swan Lake, Act II: No. 13: Danses des cygnes. Tempo di Valse
    1:34
  3. 4.
    Swan Lake, Act II: No. 13: Danses des cygnes. Moderato assai
    1:45
  4. 5.
    Swan Lake, Act II: No. 13: Danses des cygnes. Coda
    2:13
  5. 6.
    Swan Lake, Act III: No. 15: Allegro giusto / No. 17. Scene et Valse
    6:26
  6. 7.
    Swan Lake, Act III: No. 18: Scene. Allegro / No. 21. Danse espagnole
    4:10
  7. 8.
    Swan Lake, Act III: No. 22: Danse napolitaine
    2:05
  8. 9.
    Swan Lake, Act III: No. 23: Mazurka
    2:51
  9. 10.
    Swan Lake, Act III: No. 20: Danse hongroise
    2:29
  10. 11.
    Swan Lake, Act III: No. 5: Pas de deux
    4:40
  11. 12.
    Swan Lake, Act III: Coda. Allegro molto vivace
    2:53
  12. 13.
    Swan Lake, Act IV: No. 28. Scene. Allegro agitato – No. 29: Scene finale. Andante‐Allegro agitato
    8:04

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