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Jazz Suite from the Ballet ‘The Sleeping Beauty’

Soyoung Joung

Composer
Tchaikovsky
Released
2020
Label
DONGAKNUA
Forces
Piano, Trio
Personnel
Boyoung Jang piano, Jeon Hyo-tak bass, Jin Seung-ha drums

Joung builds a compact suite around Aurora’s story rather than trying to represent the entire ballet.

The selection keeps the great Rose Adagio but surrounds it with fairy, waltz and variation music, giving the jazz group more than one kind of Tchaikovsky to work with.

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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsTchaikovsky · classical source works

Track 4 combines Aurora’s Variation and Coda, so the classical player uses one video for each. The other four tracks use one video apiece.

Jazzed upSoyoung Joung · 2020
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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. The Lilac Fairy Theme (Prologue)The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, Prologue No. 1a: Introduction
  2. Garland Waltz (Act.1)The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, Act I No. 6: Valse (Garland Waltz)
  3. Rose Adagio (Act.1)The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, Act I No. 8a: Pas d’action -- Adagio (Rose Adagio)
  4. Aurora’s Variation&Coda (Act.1)The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, Act I No. 8c: Variation d’Aurore; Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, Act I No. 8d: Coda
  5. Pas d’action (Act.2)The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, Act II No. 15a: Pas d’action — Scene of Aurora and Désiré