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Morning Class
with The Royal Swedish Ballet
CD Album
Recorded at the Royal Opera of Sweden in Stockholm, this CD compilation is the result of half a decade of close collaboration between Anna Grabka as a ballet master of the Royal Swedish Ballet and Anna Buchenhorst. The training served as a daily forum for exploring and refining the relationship between ballet movement and music.
Anna Grabka’s profound knowledge of suitable music for ballet class as well as a deep musical understanding made the morning class easy and delightful for the company.
All tracks have a preparation of four counts and for the sake of variety exercises at the barre are repeated with a change of music. This record is intended for both professionals and students in their daily exercises, as well as for everyone’s listening pleasure.
Full Track Listing
Total time: 75’19
BARRE
Foot exercise, en face to the barre 2’43
A. Borodin: Dance of the Young Polovetsian Maidens
Plié, gr. pliés & port de bras 4’57
F. Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in B minor
J. Brahms: Intermezzo, Op.119 No.2
B. Tendu 1’46
J.S. Bach: Second movement from Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
B. Tendu regular 1’36
J. Pachelbel: Canon
B. Tendu (quickly) 1’14
W.A. Mozart: ‘Rondo alla turca’ from Sonata in A major, KV 331
B. Tendu jeté regular 0’39
P. Tchaikovsky: ‘The Sick Doll’ from Children´s Album, Op.39
B. Tendu jeté (quickly) 0’59
C. Czerny: Étude
Rond de jambe par terre 4’54
G. Puccini: Tosca
F. Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op.posth.
A. Buchenhorst: Russian Rond
B. Fondu 2’18
F. Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, Op.48 No.1
B. Frappé with petit battement 0’56
L. Delibes: Pizzicato-Polka
Rond de jambe en l´air 1’28
R. Schumann: Valse noble from Carnaval, Op.9
Adagio 2’25
P. Tchaikovsky: Theme and Variations
Gr. battement 1’16
G. Rossini: The Thieving Magpie Overture
Stretching 4’16
C. Debussy: Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque
MILIEU
Small adagio with battement tendu & piruette on the spot 2’15
J.S. Bach: Sicilienne, BWV 1031
F. Schubert: Impromptu in B-flat major, D 935 No.3
B. Fondu 1’07
F. Chopin: Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op.9 No.1
Piruette travel 6’18
L. Delibes: Naïla
R. Schumann: Promenade
F. Chopin: Mazurka in B major, Op.7 No.1, Mazurka in A minor, Op. posth.
C. Czerny: Pas de mazurka from the ballet Étude
E. Grieg: Anitra´s Dance from Peer Gynt
H. Wieniawski: Mazurka in A minor
Frappé & petit battement 0’49
S. Joplin: The Entertainer
Gr. battement 1’28
J. Brahms: Waltz, Op.39 No.11
Gr. piruette 1’26
I. Dunayevsky: Waltz
Gr. adagio 1’28
F. Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op.53 No.2
Fouette en tournant, coda 1’03
P. Tchaikovsky: Pas de deux from Swan Lake (original version)
ALLEGRO
Petit sauté 0’26
S. Rachmaninoff: Polka italienne
Echappé 1’14
S. Prokofiev: March, Op.65 No 10
L. Delibes: Pas de Naïla (Polka-Scherzo)
Assamble 1’31
S. Joplin: Pine Apple Rag; Magnetic Rag
Jeté 1’54
J. Strauss Jr.: Polka (included in the ballet Le Beau Danube)
Polka
Sissonne ouverte or sissonne fermé 2’20
J. Strauss Jr.: Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410
Gr. assamble 2’16
Tchaikovsky: Pas de deux from Swan Lake (original version);
L. Minkus: Pas d´esclave from Le Corsaire
Gr. allegro or manage 1’43
A. Crain: Laurencia
L. Minkus: La Bayadère
Tour en l´air 0’43
I. Dunayevsky: Music from the film The Shining Path
F. Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin
POINTÉ
Relevé 0’50
B. Bartók: Romanian Folk Dance No.2 (‘Peasant Costume’)
Echappé en pointé 1’24
G.F. Händel: Gavotte – Dance Movement No.11
Sissonne simple en pointé 1’15
J.F.F. Burgmüller: Peasant pas de deux from Giselle
Ballonné 1’34
A. Buchenhorst: Mazurka
Vårvindar friska (Swedish folksong)
Polonaise 0’43
F. Chopin: Polonaise, Op.40 No.1
Waltz 1’51
F. Chopin: Nocturne, Op.9 No.1
Pas curu 1’12
J. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No.5
Diagonal, coda 1’02
A. Adam: Le Corsaire, Giselle
Port de bras 0’40
J. Brahms: Waltz, Op.39 No.3
ADDITIONAL TRACKS FOR STRETCHING
F. Mendelssohn: Venetianisches Gondellied (Lieder ohne Worte, Op.30 No.6) 4’01
A. Marcello (transcription by J.S. Bach): Adagio from Oboe Concerto, BWV 974 2’58
