THIS is my favorite version ever! So slow and sumptuous. It wasn't until I heard this version that I realized so many others have practically raced through it. It's both "masterpiece" and "master peace."🙏🌹❤
Thank you, My ears are tuned for Bernstein & Bavarian Symphony Orchestra version of this piece. This one sounds a lot more pleasing and natural as funeral music ought to be.
Es hermoso todo esté ballet y maravillosas las bailarinas y bailarines......pero hay algo que me trastorna y me molesta,el príncipe siendo amor verdadero por Odette,no pudo darse cuenta que el bello y sensual cisne negro no era su amada??mmmmm.....no no no no no!y el mago estaba muuuu guapo ,tanto en humano como en su ser original,vaya caballero!!no debieron estar juntos,solo Odette como la princesa hermosa!pues solo es que me gustó más el mafo que el príncipe!!🤤🤤🤭🤭🤭
Guess it might have okay in a sprt of 80's way still - but nowadays - the last act of Swan lake is becomes a convoluted hysterical dramatic mess that makes no sense . Choreography wise it's also an unending chas of traipsing swans, waving arms, cringeworthy homoerotic wrestlimg with an X-man mutant form a marvel series - and pity those leads, falling onto matresses at the end.....after a night of hard work..
This is what I love about ballet. Take one very serious opera house, add gorgeous dramatic music, and contrast it with an absurd story line. It is very entertaining, the definition of "high camp." I watched it not knowing the production behind it and thought, wow, this is pretty over-the-top acting, staging, and dancing. Then I saw it was ABT using some of their most famous Principal Dancers and thought they have really turned this classic into what it really is.
My father used to listen to this after a few glasses of wine or scotch. He would lay under the dining room table because he said the acoustics were better under there. He would ask me to listen to it with him, and regretfully I always said no. The anniversary of his passing is coming up, and I have a tradition for that night. I smoke a joint and lay down and listen to this every year at the time I watched him take his last breath. Wish I would've done it when he was here.
I find it admirable, that although his German was really bad, he really tried to communicate with German musicians in their own language...much better than James Levine, who always spoke English,...despite Lennie's terrible German, the players really knew what he wanted just by his soul...he was one with Mahler, and the musicians knew this, no matter what language he spoke...he spoke Mahler...what a great human being!
