Takeshi Terauchi And The Bunnys - 白鳥の湖 / Swan Lake (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

From ’’ レッツ・ゴー「運命」/ Let’s Go Classics ’’ Label: King Records – SKK 366 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Country: Japan Released: Sep 10, 1967 Tracklist A1 運命 / Symphony No. 5 Written-By – Ludwig van Beethoven A2 白鳥の湖 / Swan Lake Written-By – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky A3 ペルシャの市場にて / In A Persian Market Written-By – Albert W. Ketelbey A4 熊蜂の飛行 / The Flight Of The Bumble Bee Written-By – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov A5 ショパンのノクターン / Nocturne No. 2 Written-By – Frédéric Chopin A6 剣の舞 / Sabre Dance Written-By – Aram Khatchaturian B1 未完成 / Unfinished Symphony Written-By – Franz Schubert B2 ハンガリー舞曲第5番 / Hungarian Dance No. 5 Written-By – Johannes Brahms B3 カルメン / Carmen Written-By – Georges Bizet B4 ドナウ川のさざなみ / Danube Wave Waltz Written-By – Ion Ivanovici B5 ある晴れた日に / One Fine Day Written-By – Giacomo Puccini B6 エリーゼのために / For Elise Written-By – Ludwig van Beethoven Arranged By, Lead Guitar, Leader – 寺内タケシ (Takeshi Terauchi) Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – 鈴木義之 (Yoshiyuki Suzuki) Guitar [Side], Vocals – 黒沢博 (Hiroshi Kurosawa) Electric Organ – 荻野達也 (Tatsuya Ogino) Drums, Vocals, Shakuhachi – 井上正 (Tadashi Inoue) Bass – 小野肇 (Hajime Ono) ------------------------ Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое озеро, Lebedinoye ozero) is a ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875--1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales. It tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger. The ballet received its premiere on February 20 [O.S. March 4] 1877, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as The Lake of the Swans. Although it is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet on January 15, 1895, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. For this revival, Tchaikovsky’s score was revised by the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre’s chief conductor and composer Riccardo Drigo. Composition process Tchaikovsky’s excitement with Swan Lake is evident based on the quick speed with which he composed. Commissioned in the spring of 1875, the piece was created within one full year, however from Tchaikovsky’s letters to Sergei Taneyev from August 1875, it was not only his excitement which compelled Tchaikovsky to create it so rapidly, but his wish to finish it as soon as possible, so as to allow him to start on an opera. Respectively, he created scores of the first three numbers of the ballet, then the orchestration in the fall and winter, and was still struggling with the instrumentation in the spring. By April 1876, the work was fully completed. Judging upon Tchaikovsky’s mention of a draft, the presence of some sort of abstract would be plausible. However, no such draft has ever been seen. Tchaikovsky wrote various letters to friends expressing his longstanding desire to work with this type of music, and his excitement concerning his current stimulating, albeit laborious task. Swan Lake is scored for the typical late 19th-century large orchestra: Other versions/uses The 1990 LucasArts adventure game Loom used a major portion of the Swan Lake suite for its audio track, as well as incorporating a major swan theme into the storyline. It otherwise bore no resemblance to the original ballet. In Radio City Christmas Spectacular, The Rockettes do a short homage to Swan Lake during the performance of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Rock and Dance Version), with the line “Seven Swans A-Swimming.“ Billy Elliot the Musical incorporates the most famous section of Swan Lake in a dance number, in which the main character dances while shadowed by his future, adult self. Television The 2002 anime Princess Tutu (2002) frequently alludes to Swan Lake. In the second season of the anime Kaleido Star, a circus adaptation of Swan Lake becomes one of the Kaleido Stage’s most important and successful shows. In the Japanese tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Den-O, the main protagonist has the ability to take different forms, based on the “imagin“ that possess him. One of the imagin, known as Sieg, is analogous to the legend of Swan Lake. In Episode 213 of The Muppet Show, Rudolf Nureyev performs “Swine Lake“ with a giant ballerina pig. Swan Lake was heard in two episodes of the Playhouse Disney series Little Einsteins. Selected Discography 1954, Antal Doráti (conductor), Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (first complete recording, available only in mono) 1975 (approx.), Andre Previn (conductor), London Symphony Orchestra 1982, John Lanchbery (conductor), Philharmonia Orchestra 1988, Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor), Russian State Symphony Orchestra 1990, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), London Symphony Orchestra 1992, Charles Dutoit (conductor), Montreal Symphony Orchestra 2006, Valery Gergiev (conductor), Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre