I saw this at the Met when it premiered and was blown away by how beautifully Clark Tippet, who was a principal dancer at ABT at the time, captured the lushness of the concerto in the movement. He was a gorgeous dancer and an incredibly promising choreographer who tragically died very young.
Grande impressione di facilità esecutiva d'acchito da parte di questa ballerina sottolinea ancor più un'immiata grazia e levità fatta tensione motile. Ottimo quello che con un mio neologismo mi piace chiamare convolo della ballerina ottimamente indotto dal partner. OTTIMO l apporto anche con pose figurali del corollario danzante. MOLTO BTSVI TUTTI GLI AGENTI IN PROSCENIO. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO
I saw this several decades ago when ABT brought it to San Francisco with Alessandra Ferri. I knew nothing about ballet at the time, but it made a huge impression on me--well, it was Alessandra Ferri! She was particularly beautiful in the second movement; I hope someone posts that too. I'm glad ABT revived it. I think it's a great ballet.
Gorgeous choreography and dancing! Though, as a violinist, I was not a fan of the performance on the recording. The Bruch concerto is lovely, but that was kind of a sloppy execution. What recording were they dancing to, does anyone know?
The violin solo is questionable in its quality. There are intonation mistakes if you listen carefully; many notes are just a tiny bit off, such as in 0:45, 0:47-0:49 at the E at the top of the doublestop, 0:54, and so on. Some passages have notes clumped together, especially the doublestops at 0:43 to 0:46 At the arpeggio passage from about 0:59 to 1:01 there is a slide that is not marked in the music. The concerto is pretty good overall, but NOT ready for a perfomance.
