BEST BALLET BOP Music?? 🩰 🎶 | Our TOP 10 Pieces of Classical Ballet Music 🎼 | Ballet Reign
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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Classical Music Nerds and Ballet Nerds unittttttee 🙌🏻 Today, we'll be sharing with you our top 10 music picks from the ballet repertoire 🎼✨
We've carefully curated this list to include some of the most iconic, emotional, and awe-inspiring compositions that have graced audiences for generations, and mayyybee some you've never heard of before.
So, grab your favorite comfy chair, put on your headphones, and join us on the very first official Ballet Reign Bop Session! 🤗🎻🩰
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Grace to you,
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SPOILER: here's the list of pieces we talked about today, for your listening and viewing enjoyment :)
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🌹 Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream: • The Dream - Scherzo
🌟 Saint Saens - The Swan: • Uliana Lopatkina - Dyi...
🧚♂️ Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty: • The Sleeping Beauty - ...
🗡️ Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker: • Renata Shakirova and D...
🎭 Von Weber - Invitation to the Dance: • Le spectre de la rose ...
🌊 Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake: • Swan Lake - Act II - C...
🍂 Drigo - Les Corsaire: • Le Corsaire pas de deu...
🌪️ Minkus - La Bayadére: • Minkus: La Bayadère / ...
🌌 Lanchberry - La Fille Mal Gardee: • La fille mal gardée, A...
🕰️ Stravinsky - The Firebird: • Firebird (Vishneva): I...
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We’d love to hear y’all’s favorite pieces of classical music, so make sure to share yours with all your fellow Ballet/Music Nerds below! Happy bopping everyone 😆🎶😆
I listen to a lot of the music from Coppélia, Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty are absolute classics.
A true classics fan ✨. Love it! 💕👍🏻
Pretty much Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, & the Nutcracker. A little Tchaikovsky heavy, but is that a bad thing? 🤣
Don't get me wrong, Bach's Brandenburg concertos are lovely & Vivaldi's Seasons are exquisite, but I don't know if they fit the "ballet bop music" category. I have danced to Vivaldi's Summer in a recital, though.😊
I think I'm in my giselle obsessed fan phase these days ahaha
@kerriemckinstry-jett8625 Never a bad thing #teamtchaikovsky✊
Glad to know I’m not the only one who bops to classical music. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet makes me weep. His Cinderella score is also gorgeous, planning to walk down the isle to the final piece from the score. And Maurice Ravel’s The Fairy Garden has a special place in my heart. My old ballet school used it in their ballet adaptation of The Little Mermaid when the mermaid gets her legs. It’s such a beautiful piece of music and fit the scene so well!
Ur not the only one lol 😂 that sounds like such a marvelous production!! Would’ve loved to see it 🌊
I know how can people listen to all that awful music we hear so often??? LOL
Not the only one!! I LOVE bopping to classical music.
Did you know Ladies that Tchaikovsky composed the Nutcracker after the death of his dear sister, he was so depressed and he was inspired to compose this with her in mind, it's a tribute to her. Thats why this piece is melancholy, joyous and exuberant and grand
It’s such a sad backstory! But it made the piece so full of beauty and emotion ❄️💕✨
It sure did, supposedly his depression was very deep and long after her death, but what a beautiful tribute to his sister@@balletreign
I listen to The Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker on repeat for hours and it gives me chills every time!
Good one, we love flowers! 🌹🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼🪻
Have to admit, I can't listen to the Nutcracker Snow Scene without tears....it's magnificent, and innocent. Perfect music. Ps - totally agree with you re: Le Corsaire PDD and the finale to La Bayadere. I was so very lucky to have seen the Kirov (as they were then) perform Bayadere - the Kingdom of the Shades was sublime. Happy memories!
Right??? It’s impossible not to get emotional to such heart-moving music 🎶🥹
I can’t listen to ANY Nutcracker music when it’s NOT Christmas. Any dancer conscripted to dance dozens of performances of Nutcracker for a weeks every Christmas, year after year, after year, will understand. Hearing SugarPlum or Waltz of the Flowers, or Snow Scene in March will almost make me vomit. And PLEASE, don’t EVER play music from Nutcracker for class.
Oh yes! The dying swan is such a beautiful piece of music as well as the variation that accompanies it. A lot of my favorite pieces of music from ballet (and just instrumental music in general) tend to either be dramatic or quietly somber because I find those pieces to be very emotionally moving. Dying swan is very peaceful but also somber. It's the last moments of the swans life, and every time I hear the music I think about having the highlighted moments of your life playing before your eyes as you peacefully accept your death. Like you said, it's not gruesome or violent, just quiet and mellow. My other favorite swan-related piece would be the overture from Swan Lake because it's SUPER DRAMATIC and I love how the music slowly builds up in tension before everything just comes to a climax and the situation becomes more intense and dire. It's a good preview/summary of what's to come later in the ballet.
Loved reading your thoughts on Dying Swan 🦢💕 It’s truly a masterpiece. And Swan Lake, how could u not 🤩🤩
Always a pleasure to be in the company of Ballet Nerds! Your thought of driving in a car to Swan Lake, reminded me of when I was a relatively new driver and would drive to any waltz on the classical music radio station, repeatedly braking gently and intensely to the "bumbum, "bumbum of the 3/4 waltz meter...making the car dance, as it were. This was early in my nerd-dom, many years ago...and it requires a minimally trafficed neighborhood road, to avoid collisions with non-waltzing cars. Waltzer beware!
That just takes waltzing to the next level 😂🚗. Thanks for joining us today!!
I did that, too, when I was in my twenties!😊
Oh goodness! That's the best! I love it!
i had so much fun watching the premiere of this one!!! some of my favorite ballet bops are waltz of the hours from cinderella, the don q and sugarplum pas’, and medora’s act II variation from le corsaire :]] you guys killed it as you always do!!!!!
Thanks for your song recs! We had so much fun with y’all today, as always 😄😄
Do not miss the 1935 black and white film of Midsummers Night Dream, choreographed bi Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky, including most of the complete Mendalsohn score, gorgeous prolonged scenes of hundreds of fairys dancing in the stars,
the rest is drama/comedy of Shakespeare...a real cinematic masterpiece of those years...especially notiece Nini Theilade, a French/Vietnamese dancer...absolutely exquisite as the lead dancer of the fairies...and notice the gesture of knocking the wrists together, later replicated by Agnes de Mille in many of her 1940's-50s Broadway ballets, ie: Oklahoma, Carousel, etc.
I LOVE NUTCRACKER & CLARA’s PAS DE DEUX!!!! I just love how they start to fall in love with each other in that scene! Such an adorable and enchanting pas de deux
Also rose adage and the coda from swan lake are absolutely amazing ahhhhhhh
A true Tchaikovsky fan 😂🎶👍🏻
Last word for today...different notes and keys of music hold intrinsic emotional power...ask a Musicologist about this for specific details. This is why some music is "cozy, warm, invigorating," etc, etc, Composers know exactly what they are doing when they choose the note, key, pedalling on a piano, etc. , of the music they are writing....ESPECIALLY in opera, where the music usually preceeds the libretto....the music sets the mood and emotional terrain....then the words are written to match the music.
Wowww we so appreciate these insights! Thanks! 🎶🙌🏻
@@balletreign that would be a nice and very pedagogical insight for everyone such as me as a former ballet student and as a pianist. If you know some musicologist or classical music composer to give you insights. For example, I was at same time ballet and piano student. As someone aware of the subtleties of harmonies and chromatic emotional relevance i would like to emphasize the emotional expression in dance and gestures. Most ballerinas are not aware of this and that is why some of them, although very expressive, they lack knowledge on when to express something. This for me is very strange and these ballerinas would greatly improve if they knew some basic knowledge on harmonic changes of the ballet music. Hope that I am clear.
It was so healing and wonderful to not do this alone for once ✨🥹 honestly thank you for bopping with me 🥰
Awww we loved bopping with u today!! 🥹💕. Thanks for joining us, we’ll have to do this again soon 😁😁
I loved this video. Agree with the people that say ballet is what got me into classical music in the first place.
Ballet did that for much of us, and we’re so grateful! Thanks for watching and listening 🎶✨💕😁
I'm the other way around! I grew up with classical music but not ballet. I'm now learning about dance but this moment to bring my Classical Music Nerd out makes me HAPPY. :)
I really enjoyed this. Ballet is what got me interested in classical music. I know some people are snobbish about ballet music, but I just love so much of it. I like all the things you listed. Yup, that's the version of Bayadere that I prefer; and Firebird is just genius! What amazes me about ballet music is how really short bits of maybe a minute or three can just contain worlds.. and sometimes are SO catchy. Other music I like that doesn't always get a lot of appreciation are Sylvia and Cinderella. Fille mal Gardee always makes me smile, and there really is a lot of good music in Raymonda. Giselle is perfect, and so are all the Tchaikovsky ballets. And Minkus just comes up with so many good tunes; although yeah I like the Drigo parts too.
So well said 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻. We’re so glad u enjoyed this, and we appreciate your input! Keep bopping 🎶✨😆
Same. I just wasn't that interested in classical music until I saw ballets set to various pieces.
Well for me is kind of the opposite
So we are in rehearsals for Nutcracker right now and I'm not in snow but I got to learn the snow queen and it's so amazing. Snow has to be one of my favorite scenes because it's just so pretty especially when the snow falls. I'm in the party scene again this year and Drosselmeyer understudy. Also in the spring we are doing The FireBird and I can't wait. We were supposed to do it a couple years ago but COVID happened and we had to stop.
Congrats!! 🥳🥳. It’s a huge honor to understudy snow Queen. And Firebird, WOW! That’s gonna be a blast 💥 def one of the best of ballet rep 🔥🔥
@@balletreign it's one of my favorites and I'm so happy that we finally are going to be able to do it.
Le Corsaire, the music makes you feel the same as when you are platonically in love, the emotions are there and it’s dreamy and beautiful. The Firebird is like a whirlpool of sorcery.
Yesssss very well articulated ✨💕🎶
Omg yes. The swan lake bop is for real!!!
If only Tchaikovsky could see us all bopping to the piece that was first rejected in his day! 🎶🙌🏻
@@balletreign right ? How many times I was in traffic doing the choreo with my hands to this music. Other drivers probably think I was nuts
Hahaha that was literally us last night 😂
There’s a wonderful audio recording of the complete “Firebird” ballet, with Natalia Makarova narrating! It’s really something. Just like in her dancing, Makarova could really act with her voice.
All of her commentaries/interviews are so fascinating! She’s amazing 🤩🤩
I have to add that I am happy to note that you two are hopeless romantics...and so am I, as are many other ballet nerds.....NOT A BAD THING TO BE, especially these days. A little Bayadere or Corsaire goes a long way to counter upsetting news.
HAHA 😂 we knew we weren’t the only ones lol. Classical music is *always* the way 🎶✨💕
Oh man, this was the video I needed. Snow pas de deux (well the whole nutcracker suite, really) is what got me into ballet. Also Rite of Spring. I do think the whole Nutcracker suite is very underrated as a stand-alone piece. Other favorites are Gamzatti temple variation and Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe (the whole thing but especially danse religieuse and lever du jour). Why isn’t this ballet performed more often? Anyway, off to make a new playlist now! Thank you ladies!
Aww yay!! Thanks so much! Thanks for sharing ur faves, we love those too ☺️. We do have a playlist on Spotify if u want (link in description) 🙃🙃. Keep bopping!! 😆😆
I dont know who edits these but their edits make me giggle every video 😂
We’re glad to hear that! 😂. We’ll let them know the good report 👍🏻✨. Thank u so much!!
I've always said that going to the ballet is going to see a world class orchestra as well as the dancers. I would love to see more loved orchestral pieces incorporated into new ballet/dance works to make this even more accurate. I think my favourite ballet music is from Raymonda. I've never seen it live, but I absolutely love the score!
Looking forward to this week's offering as I do to every week!
Awwwwww thanks! 🥹. We’ll see y’all tomorrow 😆
And don't forget Nicholas Tsiskaridze as "Mother" in Fille....dancing in clogs with the milkmaids. He is the BEST!.....and very laughter/hapiness producing .
Yes!! The clog dance is fabulous ✨✨
Finally, something we agree on so far: Invitation to Dance - Carl Maria Von Weber WITH orchestration by Berlioz. It gives me life. Scherzo is pronounced Skerzo. Did you know that as ballet’s language is French, Music is in Italian. 12:40
The coda from Shades is absolutely legendary. I’ve danced all parts in this ballet with this version.🫶🏻🩰
Talking about codas: Paquita pas de trois is so amazing. Markitenka has a great score by Pugni AND choreography by Fanny Cerrito…
Which leads me to Pas de Quatre with music by Pugni again.
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Loved this. It's a topic we don't hear about enough. One of my favourites: the fast music for the corps de ballet in Paquita (Tatataaaa...tatata..tatatatata). And some pieces from Prokoviev's Romeo and Juliet. Gorgeous.
YES that one is so energizing! And Prokofiev is always fabulous. Thank you so much, we’re glad to nerd out on this topic, if y’all want more of this let us know!✨🙌🏻
11:33 OMG my favorite music from swan lake 😭😭😭💖💖💖 yesssss love that bop
You know it!! *aggressive bopping* 😆😆
Can recommend the soundtrack from the
BBC tv series :
The Magic of Dance
presented by
Dame Margot Fonteyn.
I believe the pieces were chosen by Dame Margot
herself.
one of my favorite pieces of classical ballet music is Diamonds pas de deux's!
Hello, fellow boppers! Kind of late to the party, but I'm so glad you all are highlighting the community of us who unironically listen to classical music as though it's the newest, coolest thing.
I have to go by composer:
PROKOFIEV is my alltime favorite, and of his ballets, I love everything from Cinderella, R&J, Ivan the Terrible (a ballet based on his film score for the film of the same name) & the Tale of the Stone Flower
Although I'm not a big STRAVINSKY fan, he did score my favorite alltime ballet, THE FIREBIRD, which I regularly listen to in its entirety. The Princess' motif/ending motif are my favorite cues.
Then there are the ballets where I can listen to the entire recording: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Delibes' Sylvia, Minkus' Don Quixote, and Adam's Le Corsaire; a "modern" favorite is KHACHATURIAN'S Spartacus, which I love and can't get enough of, but is actually hard to find decent records. The Bolshoi's version is my favorite (currently on Spotify).
Thanks to YOU TWO, I've found Flower Festival in Genzano, and honorable mention goes to a ballet sequence from a non-ballet (opera): BORODIN's Polovtsian Dances is a fun time for all!
AMAZING list! Thanks for sharing ur favorites, all beautiful works 🤩 and we’re so happy u enjoyed Flower Fest! Def one of our faves too 😁😁
As soon as i saw Stravinsky, I thought 'WHAT you listen to Rite of Spring??!?!?' but then i saw the rest of the sentence... haha
I’d love to have a second part ^^ it’s so much fun to appreciate classical bops in someone’s company :D
Aww so glad u enjoyed the bop as much as we did! Def gotta do this again 🥳🥳
I imagine most ballerinas feel a bit nauseous hearing the Rose Adage (and the Black Swan fouettés music!) 😂
Hahaha yea maybe a bit but the beauty of the piece is enough 😂😂
even more than all the music I enjoy watching your enjoyment and enthusiasm. Thanks !
Aww! We’re glad u had a good time! We loved bopping with y’all 🎶😆
The music in Giselle is truly wonderful! Any thought ladies ?
Giselle’s music is absolutely beautiful! One of our faves too. This definitely needs a part 2… stay tuned! 😊
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LINKING THE ALTERNATIVE BAYADERE VERSION I CRIED I NEED TO ADD IT TO MY PLAYLIST
YOURE MOST WELCOME 😂✨🎶💕
yess i love this video!! I play cello in my highschool orchestra and when we play pieces from ballets my heart just😻🤩😻 *extreme happiness* ballet dancers and string players are a perfect combinationn 12:28 i would listen to it every morning in middle school and i would be soo excited for orchestra class at the end of the dayy also im sad i missed the premiere😭 i had a dentist appointment😑😑
Cello and ballet are beautifulllll together and The Swan is a perfect example of that 🦢🎶✨. Ballet/classical music is so perfect for any time of day and any occasion 🙌🏻
u know how Eden feels about dentists lol 😂. Hope u had a good appt! 😆
I often listen to ballet music in my car. Love your take on all of this beautiful music. Firebird is popular among figure skaters, too.
Last year, for my school's showcase, I was in the Scherzo from Midsummer! It's so fun, light, and happy-sounding! I recently went to see Midsummer Night's Dream at Houston Ballet, and their interpretation was so different, but I still loved it.
I ALWAYS cry whenever I see or hear dying swan. It destroys me every time.
And thank you for including the orchestra and full name of the la bayadere piece. I spent like 15 minutes trying to find it on Amazon Music before y'all showed that!
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That is fantastic, what a great opportunity! And YES that version of La Bayadere is absolute GOLD and we’re glad ur enjoying it! (Feel free to check the description box for a link to the full ballet bop playlist on Spotify) 😁😁
@@balletreign Oh amazing! Thank you!
I'll try to analyze why the Corsaire PDD music is so beautiful. First of all it is based on a descending scale. (Tchaikovsky does this a lot--think of the opening of the Grand PDD in Act 2. It's just a downwards C major scale.) There are little jumps in between, but the basic line remains a scale, with chromatic notes added. (Chromatic notes would be adding black keys to a passage on the white keys.) At the climax, the melody jumps up twice, first a minor 6th (six keys up on the piano), and then a 9th, which is a very big leap, and--this is what makes it so special-- the jumps land a step higher than the goal and then resolve downward to the goal note. This is called an appoggiatura, which means a leaning: the higher note leans on to the resolution. Appoggiaturas are very expressive.
Oh, I am a Massenet fan too, so I have to give a plug to the score for the Manon ballet also!
Massenet is awesome too!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
I'm ITA with your list ladies 😊! I especially agree with you about the Snow Scene from "Nutcracker." My favorite part is the crescendo, where the timpani and the entire orchestra comes to that abrupt hush, and the woodwinds speak quietly through the stillness with the harp and strings, calming down for the Snowflake Waltz...! It's just breathtakingly beautiful what Maestro Tchaikovsky created! Magic! Also, from "The Sleeping Beauty," where the Lilac Fairy appears and casts her spell at the end of Act 1 is AWESOME! Balanchine said this about that segment, "...if it had been written for opera it would still be magnificent," and for the entire opus, "...you have just heard the greatest score ever written for ballet." Other favorites I constantly loop are: The Winter Fairy and Cinderella's entrance and Grand Waltz from Prokofiev's "Cinderella;" the Dance of the Knights from his "Romeo & Juliet," the Czardas from Act 3 of "Raymonda;" Act 2, the Czardas and (arranged by Ricardo Drigo), the "Valse Bluette," and "Il Poco di Chopin" from "Swan Lake;" Swanilda's entrance and first variation and the Mazurka from Act 1 of"Coppelia;" "Chopiniana (Les Sylphides)," "The Mistake Waltz" from "The Concert" (also Chopin), Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade," the first entrance and Scene of Myrtha & the Wilis in "Giselle" Act 2, the Sylph & James' pdd from Act 2 of "La Sylphide," the three pdds from MacMillan's "Manon" (Massenet arranged by John Lanchberry), the entrance of the Shades from "Bayadere" by Ludvig Minkus, and the Polonaise from "Evgeny Onegin." I know this pick isn't from ballet but Tchaikovsky's great opera is so magnifient and this piece from the opening of Act 3 is very boppy and very balletic😄))) . Finally, the Mirror and Farewell pdds from the ballet "Onegin," also to music by Tchaikovsky top off my list.
Totally agree on u on the snow pdd. That part is the BEST 🤩❄️. Thanks for sharing your list of faves!! These are great 🎶✨
looking forward to this! i'm more into solo and chamber repertoire (and Baroque!) for personal listening but gotta appreciate some symphonic music too
That’s so cool! Do you play an instrument? Can’t wait to see you at the premiere 🤭🙌🏻
just audience for both music and dance. premiere past my bedtime but will definitely watch ASAP if i can't stay awake@@balletreign
I love Handel and Rameau, and the little bit of Lully that I know!
My favorite classical music pieces are Manon Swamp PDD (but really the entire final act), the Cards Dance from Alice in Wonderland, Gamzatti Temple Variation, Paquita Coda, and the Cinderella PDD.
Lovely selection!! *aggressive bopping* 🎶
oh actually the "wizard" from the firebird is Koschei the immortal! hes a fairytale character like everyone in the ballet, hes the king of the underworld in myths too!! also fun fact the literal translation of the word Жар-птица is heat bird, not fire bird, but i guess the last one gets the point across to the english audience easier?
Lol we always call her the Firebird 😂. Didn’t know it’s literally translated as heat bird! That’s pretty funny actually 😆
@@balletreign Russian speaker here! The word root жар in Russian actually has several related meanings. The noun жара does indeed mean "heat", but the word пожар means "fire", strictly of the disastrous kind that you don't want rather than a cosy fire beneath a chimney, and жарить, the verb, means "to burn", "to roast", "to fry" or "to scorch". So Жар-птица might be translated "Heat-Bird", but the root жар carries implications of both heat and fire. You could almost translate it "The Bird that Burns".
The Slavic languages have a lot of these fun layers of meaning!
Love your selection, girls. White Adagio is my favorite piece. I also like all Stravinsky. Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov is beautiful
Thanks!! Scheherazade is MAGNIFICENT ✨✨✨
Watching this video just made me realize that some of my favourite ballets also have my favourite music: the bedroom pdd from Manon with the Massenet music amplifying that feeling of first, unbothered, mad love. The Gamzatti temple variation with that melancholic woodwind (?) Setting the tone. The pure music of shostakovich in Concerto, just so ethereal. the delicate and joyous pizzicato in Délibes ’Sylvia’. The first song of ’Still life at the penguin café’. The music from Wheeldon’s After the Rain. The Black swan variation, but the version Margot Fonteyn did, sounds so seductive yet powerful... I could really go on and on.
Yesss Shostakovich is epic! Thanks for sharing 😁😁
The fact that gisselle wasn't on here is kinda disappointing
In the Corsaire, the music is so melodic , grand and ethereal.
It’s *perfect* ✨🥹
the grande pas de deux from le corsaire makes me feel like i’m sailing 💭
It’s pure magic!! ✨🎶💕
Waaaw loved this one! I totally agree on Snow pas de deux (danced in it a loooong time ago!), Dying Swan, Rose adagio... Personnally, my favorite are Swan Lake Pas d'action Act I (yeah very specific but awesome), Ravel's Boléro, Pharaoh's daughter, Grand pas classique (both variations), the Swan lake Appendix (both variations and coda), Sleeping beauty silver fairy... and obv Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps!!
No one talks about the pharaohs daughter enough ✨ and Sacre de printemps is a BOP
I hadn't realized that I have never seen the complete Firebird. I guess that I have just seen many performances of popular scenes.
So please enlighten me with a complete overview of the ballet with the story and your critiques.
Also, another request. I love The Nutcracker because I grew up with it. I don't care if it's produced in July or some other not-Christmas season.... I appreciate that many local ballet schools and companies like to produce it (I had a childhood part in one of those) and I have seen several professional productions that were very good, but I wonder if you know of any productions that are both professional AND which stick with the original coreography, that don't do cutie things just to appeal to holiday crowds and ballet-mamas.
NUTCRACKER 🤩. That would be a very interesting topic, since Nutcracker is kinda “diluted” with a varying features sometime. And we’d love to analyze the Firebird with y’all, def one of the best ballets in the rep 🙌🏻🔥🔥
The Big Swans 🦢- life changing for the music alone. I’ll never forget my first time…🩰🫶🏻
Big swans is pure marvelousness!! 🦢🦢
The bopping!😂. Love your selection!😊 and love you chose the Bonynge recording.
LOLL hope u had as much fun as we did! Thanks for watchingg 😁😁
Weber is one of my favourite classical composers as a clarinet. We actually get a decent amount of playing time! I’m very sad to find out it’s not more popular in ballet because there’s some great pieces!!!
Love this frolic!😂❤
Thanks for watching and bopping! ✨ 👍🏻
Swan Lake, the swans part is just amaizing. I can t get bored by all thees great pieces of music!
Right?? Classical music/ballet music always takes the cake 🍰✨🎶
"The Chase" from The Miraculous Mandarin by Bartok hits those same intense "Infernal Dance" vibes. It's my favorite ballet, especially with Attila Bongar's choreography. Not everyone's cup of tea though.
I also love the golden apples section from The Firebird, and the "Princess's Khorovod" is just gorgeous.
Honorable mention to "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli, but only when danced to by the hippos and alligators in Fantasia.
Thanks for sharing your favorite pieces! All of the Firebird is phenomenal, what else can be said 🔥🔥 never saw the dancing hippos and alligators but can imagine that is quite a scene 😂
My favourite pieces of classical ballet would be:
Swan Lake - act II Dance of the Little Swans and the Watlz
Sleeping Beauty - Danse des Demoiselles d'honneur and the Le Fee-argent Variation II
Cinderella - Spring Fairy
Romeo and Juliet - Juliet's Variation
The Nutcracker - Act I March and Danse des Mirlitons
La Sylphide - Valse III
Thanks for sharing ur list!! 👍🏻✨
Classical music is easily my favorite genre of music, and it's hard to pick favorites. But if I were to pick only from the ballet repertoire, I will say that The Swan is probably my absolute favorite. I also really love the Grand Pas de Deux from The Nutrcacker - which also has some of my favorite choreography (depending on which version you watch, there's like 5956 of them), Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet (anyone else had a teacher who played that for grand battements? lol), and the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote. And yes, agree on Rose Adagio and the Snow Pas de Deux. I could also spend a whole 28 minutes nerding out over classical music.
Also, I was surprised to hear Stravinsky on your list. A lot of people don't like Stravinsky because of how chaotic his music can get at times. So it's cool to see him get some appreciation.
But if you want to hear my ultimate favorite piece of classical music, that's Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, which I suppose you could count as a ballet piece since it was in Center Stage.
About RnJ grand battements… LITERALLY EVERY TIME 🤣🤣 glad we aren’t the only ones, can anyone else relate??
oh and actually theres a soviet cartoon about the firebird fairytale( Жар-птица/Firebird 1984) which uses Stravinskiys music from the ballet in it! thats how i was introduced to it as a kid ngl, i found out what theres an actual ballet like a year ago. Theres another cartoon called Humpbacked horse (1947 or 1975 there are two versions) and ngl i think the part of it when the firebird appears does have musical references to Stravinskiy, but i didnt rewatch it in quite a while so i can be wrong(and im not a musician)
Absolutely love this!! My FAVOURITE pieces of music is definitely the Swan Lake Op. 20, Act II No. 13, Danses des cygnes especially around the end of Odettes variation and the coda. The coda is the most amazing music I've ever listened to, I always have to stop whatever I'm doing when it comes on. No words to even describe the amount of emotions that are portrayed through that piece 😍😍
Tarantella! It is one of my favorite pieces of music. You get so hyped from like the first 8 counts! This year people from my school did the tarantella for competitions and it was so fun clapping with the beat!🎉😊❤
I was absolutely bopping with you when listening to Swan Lake Act 2 coda, AND DOING THE CHOREO AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!!! (Unfortunately I never got the chance to perform Swan Lake because the show was scheduled to be performed in April of 2020 😭)
YEAAAAHH 🎶😄🦢😄🦢🎶 hopefully you’ll get to perform it one day! You’d love it ✨
Meanwhile there's me headbanging to Rite of Spring.
Rite of spring is a mega BOP 🔥
You two really make the music come alive! Agree that Le Corsaire pas de deux is lushly romantic and just sweeps one away.
That’s exactly the way to describe it ❤️. Thank you so much for that!
Such an interesting video - I hope you'll do more like this! Do you find any difference between music specially written for ballet and other music that choreographers have just helped themselves to? This video really shows that Tchaikovsky is such a genius! In the Nutcracker snow pieces he has Mozart's ability to combine the cold of winter with the warmth of Christmas (check out Mozart's sleigh ride). But I'd like to add my personal favourite Tchaikovsky piece - the second piano concerto, especially the second movement, which has been made into a ballet by Balanchine, a choreographer I really don't like, but at least he knows good music when he hears it. Not that such a colourful piece of music deserves the dancers to be dressed in bits of shapeless white nothing (it was so much better in the original incarnation as Ballet Imperial), but there's Balanchine for you.
Great question. We do notice a difference between classical music and ballet music. The music in ballets def follows a sort of pattern, in terms of variations/pdds. Ballets also include a lot of “scene” music, which is less a feature and more of an extra layer of the storytelling element of a ballet. General classical music can vary greatly and doesn’t need to follow those guidelines. Kinda hard to describe in a brief text, but hopefully that helps lol 😂
And thanks for sharing ur list! Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto is *exquisite*✨✨
16:35 me every time I listen to music in general yes
ahh i love this!!
one of my faves is basically the entirety of the don q dream scene
Love both of those!! U seem to have a “dreamy” “magical” taste in music 🎶✨
I love a lot of the pieces mentioned. But there has been some pieces I’ve heard I would love to see some choreo put with it like The Planets, specifically the Jupiter movement I can just see how it should look.
But to keep in topic I love Cinderella and the nutcracker.
A The Planets Ballet would be EPIC ✨✨✨✨. Cinderella and Nutcracker have such magical scores 🎶
One of my favorite pieces of ballet music is Tchaikovsky's Elégie. It's the first movement of the 3rd Suite; the last movement is Theme and Variations. Balanchine choreographed the whole suite. Everybody knows Theme and Variations, which has my favorite Polonaise, but few know the Elegie, which has haunting choreography. You can see it on RUclips.
OMH WHAT PERFECT TIMINV IM DRAWING MEG GIRY DANCING KITRI VARIATION FROM ACT 1 OMG
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Props to the editor, always funny 😂
Thanks so much! We’ll let them know! 😆😆
The Snow scene! How I love it!
It’s magical ❄️✨❄️✨
More, please!
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I love John Lanchberry’s Tales of Beatrix Potter
❤🐭🦔🐰🦊🦆❤️
Arguably one of the best pieces of ballet music 👍🏻👍🏻✨✨
Good to know I’m not the only one who bops to that specific part of swan lake 😂
Ur def not the only one 😂😂
Jordan looking v beautiful here ❤
Thank you so much 🥹♥️
Sorry i wasn't able to watch the premiere, having school now makes me sleep a lot earlier than usual
It’s ok! We missed u! Hope schools going well 👍🏻✨
@balletreign awww thx and it is going well, keep creating more InTErEsTiNg content ❤️ 💙 💜 💖
When you guys start talking about swan lake and open Windows I immediately thought please be act II coda please be act II coda 🤞🤞🤞 and You said it 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
It just hypes you up every single time you are listening to it
It Is so powerful energetically 🫠🤩♥️
Me and my ballet friends would listen to it whenever we would need to resurrect our selfs for another long rehearsal
Other resurrecting ballet musics: black swan fouettés, don quixote act I finale (like Tara tatam tadadam taraaaata, Tara tatam tadadam taraa… 😂) Romeo and Juliet dance of knights and khatchaturian aegina’s variation from Spartacus 😁
We were on the same wavelength! 😂 can’t top Tchaikovsky ✨🙌🏻. Thanks for sharing your “resurrection” listens, all such good pieces!! 💕
My fav classical music is also the dying swan because it has a really good story behind this song because life and death comes to all of us and it becomes a reality and it also shows us our future before your eyes and accepting death in a peaceful way. i also love all the variations of the fairies from cinderella its so magical and also i love the music from the fairies sleeping beauty its like the magic is coming for her special dawning of life and whats to come in the ballet.
love your videos Jordan and Eden they are so awesome please do a part 2 of this and could you do a video doing about the midsummer nights dream commentary please
Yesss all of those are fantastic!! Loved hearing your faves 👍🏻. Thanks so muchhhh we’re so glad you enjoy our channel!! 🥹🥹❤️❤️
This is the list of the music here as listed on Apple’s Classical music app.
*Yes, this took a while
1. Mendelssohn: John Eliot Gardiner: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op.61, No. 1, Scherzo
2. Saint-Saëns: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, Louis Lortie, Helene Mercier: Le Carnaval des Animaux, R.125, XIII. Le Cygne
3. Tchaikovsky: Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra: The Sleeping Beauty, Op.66, 8. Pas D’action: Adagio - Danse Des Demoiselles D’honneur Et Des Pages - Variation D’Aurore - Coda
4. Tchaikovsky: Antal Doráti, London Symphony Orchestra: The Nutckracker, Op.71, No. 14a
5. Carl Maria Von Weber: Invitation to the Dance, Op.65
6. Tchaikovsky: Alexander Barantschik, London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas: The Swan Lake, Op.20, VII. Coda: Allegro vivo
7. Riccardo Drigo: Boris Spassov, Sofia National Opera Orchestra: Le Corsaire; I think the whole album is the full grande pas de deux.
8. Minkus: English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge: La Bayadère, No. 39 Vivace (No.13) (original Pavlova material) was already shown, but just in case
9. Lanchberry: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth: Hérold, Lanchberry: La fille mal gardée, No. 14, Danse de la flûte. Literally, makes me think of the Bambi movie
10. Stravinsky: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet: L’Oiseau de fue, K010, XVI. Infernal Dance of Kashchei’s Subjects.
Thanks for taking the time to do this!! 🤩✨
@@balletreign I’m the kind of person to look for an exact piece of classical music when I find a new one. I use the app a lot, so I wanted to do this for anyone who wants to know the specific opus numbers, and the like. I just used the best sounding version from the best album I could find
While this isn't from classical ballet, the score for Claude-Michel Schonberg's Wuthering Heights: The Ballet is really really good!!
Atualmente este é meu vídeo favorito do canal!!! Amei ver vocês se divertindo com as músicas e me diverti junto!!! Eu adoraria uma parte II 🩷🥹. Música é o coração do ballet, eu assistiria mais 3 ou 4 vídeos seus onde há apenas apreciação das músicas do ballet.
Amo todas as músicas que foram mostradas no vídeo e acrescentaria a dança das Willis no segundo ato de Giselle e a morte de Hilarion
Thanks so much for your feedback!! We’re glad you enjoyed bopping to music with us 😆😆. Giselle is beautiful, Adam is a legend! 💕
Firebird and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet send me into raptures! I think you ladies must love music as much I do! The rapture on your faces speaks volumes. Much Grace to you🌺
We love classical music so much 💕✨. Grace to you too! Thanks for bopping with us 😎😎
Also music from carmen (especially carmen’s entrance) is in our resurrection playlist 😂
Absolutely ✨👍🏻😂
I couldn't hear the music over your commentary, but enjoy your programs
Try with louder volume! But we do hope you’ll take a listen to the music by itself too 🎶🙌🏻. Thanks for watchinggg
Oh, already such a nice list with lovely and also cool music pieces from different periods...(; let's see whether you can persuade me with the rose adage more...the ballet piece is great, but somehow I'm not a fan of the music itself (;
Hehe we’ll see! 🤓🤓
@@balletreign yes, definitely...Aurora's dawn! Thank you for the breakdown...I think I will put the La Bayadere piece to my playlist as I was not aware that something so beautful exists (;
I love your vivid explanations...of course, whether Snow pas de deux or the energetic swan coda or the flute dance (; ....I just wonder whether you could perhaps give more Leo Delibes a chance with esp. Coppelia...he should be under BOP music in my opinion...(;
Absolutely! Stay tuned for part 2 😉. We’re so happy to share new music with you! ✨🎶
I searched like for 10 minutes for this La Bayadere Version just to realize that you show afterwards which one you listened....
Omg 😂😂😂
I love to imagine the song Spring 1 (recomposed by Max Richter) from Vivaldi's four seasons - as the song of my life. So defently would be the song for the "ballet of my life"!
Just a fun question, if you girls could choes a classical song that isn't in a ballet yet to be the soundtrack of the "ballet of your life" - Wich one would it be? 💌
(this could even be a fun video idea, where you compose the soundtrack and acts of a ballet about who you are, and what would that ballet look like) 💝
Vivaldi is fantastic! Thanks for sharing ur fave. That’s such a good question… let us think about it and get back to u on that 😅😅. Thanks for all ur great suggestions we appreciate it a lot! ❤️
wait, what happened to the links in the description? anyone wanna do a Spotify playlist?
from my notes:
mendelssohn - midsummer night's dream (slow version)
saint-saens - the swan
tchaikovsky - rose adagio sleeping beauty
tchaikovsky - nutcracker - snow pas de deux + snow scene
carl weber - sprectre de la rose
tchaikovsky - swan lake - coda from act 2
ricardo drigo - grand pas de deux (le corasaire)
minkus - act 3 coda/finale,la bayadare (pavlova) english chamber orchestra
john lanchbery - flute dance la fille mal gardee ashton
stravinsky - firebird - infernal dance
Thank you!!
All links are in the description! We’re working on a Spotify playlist and we’ll let y’all know when it’s up 👍🏻🎶✨💕
i see them again now! dunno why they seemed to disappear for me earlier@@balletreign will wait for the playlist then, tyvm!!
@@oxoelfoxo Ayyy our "best ballet bop music" playlist is now available on Spotify! Link in description :)
For me (being in the classical music world) The Swan is overplayed, but maybe that's just because my sister insisted on playing it on the CD player every single night for 3 years straight while she fell asleep...
Hahahaha three years will do it I guess! 😂😂
How dare you guys not include dance of the knights!!!
😂😂😂 that one is such a bop 😆
where rite of spring at
Stay tunedddd 😆😆
Thank you girls for this moment : dance is so intricate with music, it is inevitable to love those musics and to be interested in music through ballet I love also the musics of Symphony in C (Georges Bizet) and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (both ballets from Balanchine), the music of "l'après midi d'un faune" from Debussy, I am sure that everybody can give hundred names, here are so many wonderful musics. Le Spectre de la Rose is my absolute favorite in your list, the best one is Manuel Legris, Opéra de Paris ruclips.net/video/DBm8Kcr9FrQ/видео.html
You’re absolutely right. Those are fabulous pieces! Thanks for your list 👍🏻✨.
Jerome Robbins choreographed L'après midi. It has nothing to do with nymphs or a faun, but it's brilliant. See it on RUclips with Maria Tallchief and Jacques D'Amboise, the original dancers.
@@philzmusic8098 I've seen this choreography of Jerome Robbins with Jacques d'Amboise and Tanaquil Leclercq (I love her, she was amazing and she had such a heartbreaking destiny) but I didn't saw it with Maria Tallchief (they were both married with and muses of Balanchine). They have danced this piece at the Opéra de Paris recently with Hugo Marchand and Amandine Albisson. Very beautiful also but not quite as the old versions ......it is still possible to see all those versions on YT
@@philzmusic8098 I had seen it with Jacques d' Amboise and Tanaquil Leclercq on YT(she was also married with Balanchine like Maria Tallchief and had such a heartbreaking destiny). Very recently, it was danced at Opéra de Paris with Hugo Marchand and Amandine Albisson, but I prefer the old version .....
Sorry I got the ballerinas mixed up!@@tarantellalarouge7632
Someone at work once asked my team what our "hype song," was. I told them the intro party scene from Swan Lake. ruclips.net/video/0EmS6480JfQ/видео.html .... Nothing gets me more excited to be at the ballet than this song. SUCH A BOP!
OMG! AND WALTZ OF THE SNOWFLAKES? It gives me goosebumps every time. How on earth did Tchaikovsky make it sound so much like a literal flurry?
YESSSS both are absolutely fabulous!! 🎄❄️✨. Snow will always have our hearts ❤️
Im not a ballernia but the music goes so hard lmao
You don’t have to be a ballerina to appreciate beauty 🎶💕☺️. Thanks for bopping with us!!
Hi, I hope it's okay to ask, could you please add a warning for the flashing images in this video please? Thank you so much!
I was hoping to hear some Khachaturian....
Next time maybe! We love khatchaturian 😁😁
My other favorite ballet composer is Aaron Copeland.
Why did you guys leave Waltz of the Snow Flakes ?
Thats one of the most epic piece of music and dance , its a travesty that you just let it go