A Trip to Italy

Track Listings
1. Plie, Piacer D'Amor, Martini    
2. Tendu, Gypsy Song (from Il Trovatore) Verdi    
3. Tendu, Quartet (from Rigoletto), Verdi    
4. Tendu, Attinde (folk song from Sardinia)    
5. Degage, Caro nome (from Rigoletto), Verdi    
6. Balancoire, That's Amore, Harry Warren    
7. Quick Degage, Oje Caruli, Costa    
8. Pas de Cheval, Il Battagliero, T. Pattaccini    
9. Ronds de Jambe, Lu Cardillo, Labriola    
10. Frappe, Margarita, Vittorio Fassone    
11. Fondu, A Serenata d'Rose, Di Capua    
12. Ronds de Jambe en l'air, Ah Sorriento, Di Capua    
13. Petits Battements, Gloria, Tozzi Bigazzi    
14. Adage/Stretch, Fenestra che Lucive, Bellini    
15. Grande Battements, Questa O Quella (from Rigoletto)Verdi    
16. Adage, Con Te Partiro, Quarantotto/Sartori    
17. Tendu/Centre Exercise, Mambo Italiano, Bob Merrill    
18. Pirouette I, Vieni sul mar, traditional    
19. Pirouette II, Ai Nostri Monti (Il Trovatore), Verdi    
20. Traveling Turns, Il Bacio, Arditi    
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Editorial Reviews
Album Description
What do we know about Italy? Good food, robust character, beautiful landscape, and soaring melodies. This is the first recording for ballet class on the Danceables label that adds a violinist. Here is music performed with the vitality that will light that extra spark of interest and musicality in your students. With favorites like Gloria, Con te Partiro, Mambo Italiano, and That's Amore, this recording will be at the top of your "favorites" chart!

A Trip to Italy, Music, Various, Steven V Mitchell, Joyce Hammann
A Trip to Italy
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A Trip to Italy
  • Big disappointment!
  • A Pleasant Change of Pace
  • Superb Ballet CD
  • Great Ballet Class CD
 A Trip to Italy

Manufacturer: Danceables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002UQFEI
Release Date: 2004-08-06

Tracks:

  1. Plie, Piacer D'Amor, Martini
  2. Tendu, Gypsy Song (from Il Trovatore) Verdi
  3. Tendu, Quartet (from Rigoletto), Verdi
  4. Tendu, Attinde (folk song from Sardinia)
  5. Degage, Caro nome (from Rigoletto), Verdi
  6. Balancoire, That's Amore, Harry Warren
  7. Quick Degage, Oje Caruli, Costa
  8. Pas de Cheval, Il Battagliero, T. Pattaccini
  9. Ronds de Jambe, Lu Cardillo, Labriola
  10. Frappe, Margarita, Vittorio Fassone
  11. Fondu, A Serenata d'Rose, Di Capua
  12. Ronds de Jambe en l'air, Ah Sorriento, Di Capua
  13. Petits Battements, Gloria, Tozzi Bigazzi
  14. Adage/Stretch, Fenestra che Lucive, Bellini
  15. Grande Battements, Questa O Quella (from Rigoletto)Verdi
  16. Adage, Con Te Partiro, Quarantotto/Sartori
  17. Tendu/Centre Exercise, Mambo Italiano, Bob Merrill
  18. Pirouette I, Vieni sul mar, traditional
  19. Pirouette II, Ai Nostri Monti (Il Trovatore), Verdi
  20. Traveling Turns, Il Bacio, Arditi
  21. Petits sautes, Pasqualotto, traditional village dance
  22. Petit allegro I, An Un-Tarantella, traditional
  23. Petit allegro II, La Luisella, traditional
  24. Grande allegro, La Spagnola, Di Chiara
  25. Coda, Carmela Mia, Cannio
  26. Reverence, O Mio Fernando!, Donizetti

Album Description

What do we know about Italy? Good food, robust character, beautiful landscape, and soaring melodies. This is the first recording for ballet class on the Danceables label that adds a violinist. Here is music performed with the vitality that will light that extra spark of interest and musicality in your students. With favorites like Gloria, Con te Partiro, Mambo Italiano, and That's Amore, this recording will be at the top of your "favorites" chart!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Trip to Italy.......2007-01-10

Excellent music, perfect for ballet classes. It is nice to have some violen in with piano when all you usually get to listen to in class is piano.

1 out of 5 stars Big disappointment!.......2006-04-12

I love Steven Mitchell's music! But this CD was a big disappointment. Sorry, this CD sounds like coffee house music. NOT recommended!
Monika

5 out of 5 stars A Pleasant Change of Pace.......2006-03-24

This CD offers an alternative to the traditional Russian composers and piano accompaniment of most ballet class music. The violin and piano combination is refreshing, the tempo varies from track to track, and the emotion of the musicians is inspiring to my students.

5 out of 5 stars Superb Ballet CD.......2006-01-24

Steven Mitchell's "A Trip To Italy" is superb. The best classroom cd I have ever heard. It is full of beautifully arranged pieces that capture your heart. The tracks are double in length which allows for repeating of combinations. Rythms, syncopations, lush phrasings and extended breath are all incorporated in this cd. Mr. Mitchell and Mrs. Hammann play to perfection. It is truly inspirational for me as well as my students. It is a must for the classroom. BRAVO!

Laszlo Berdo(CPYB Faculty)

5 out of 5 stars Great Ballet Class CD.......2005-08-08

Steven Mitchell has outdone himself again! After his CD "Covent Garden" I thought nothing else could come close to being a great Ballet class CD. "A Trip to Italy" has a beautiful feel for the country and also takes you back to the time when the violin was an important instrument in the ballet classroom. I urge everyone to buy this CD. Steven Mitchell is a genius at playing music that inspires a dancer.
The Life and Works of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A fascinating look at a tortured genius
 The Life and Works of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Antoni Wit , Gerhard Markson , Kenneth Jean , Michael Halasz , Ondrej Lenard , Philippe Entremont , Stefan Sanderling , CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra , National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland , National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television , National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine , Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra , Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra , Wiener Kammerorchester , Bernd Glemser , Oxana Yablonskaya , Takako Nishizaki , and Vladimir Grishko
Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000669V2
Release Date: 2002-07-16

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5 out of 5 stars A fascinating look at a tortured genius.......2002-08-21

Naxos continues to do a wonderful job with its "Life and Works" series. Quite some time ago, we had a Life/Works of Mozart, one of Chopin and then two more, Liszt and Beethoven. he latter are even better packaged than are the earlier sets, with a thick booklet that offers us essays on the historical background, the position of the composer in his time, a look at the major works, a listening plan, recommended readings, personalities, a calendar of the artist's life, a glossary, and a discography. This booklet is worth the price of the set alone.

Now we have two more entries in this amazing series, again written and narrated by Jeremy Siepmann: "Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky" (8.558036-39) with a playing time of 4 hrs. 5 min. and "Johann Sebastian Bach" (8.558051-54) with a playing time of 4 hrs. 34 minutes. (Please see my comments on the Bach set on its webpage.)

Was there ever a sadder composer than Tchaikovsky? Siepmann practically introduces us to the child in his cradle and covers his 53 or so years of torment over his music, his sexuality, his impossibly hopeless marriage his strange relationship with Mme von Meck, and above all his music.


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