Music For Ballet Class Vol 1

Track Listings

1. Warm Up: after Bach prelude bwv 924

2. Pliés: After Schumann Symphonic Etudes

3. Battements Tendues: Fauré op 73, theme

4. Battements Tendues: Fauré op 73, var 1

5. Battements Tendues: Bertini etude c

6. Battements Dégagés: Dvorak Slavonic dance #3

7. Battements Dégagés: after Dvorak Slavonic dance #3

8. Ronds de Jambe a Terre: Chopin mazurka op 17:3

9. Battements Fondues: from Gershwin concerto F

10. Ronds de Jambe en l'air: Cramer etude g

11. Battements Frappés: from Verdi La Traviata

12. Adagio: After Chopin nocturne op 15:1

13. Petits Battements: Nazareth Remando

14. Grands Battements: Brahms Paganini vars I:8

15. Center Practice: Brahms Handel variations 17 & 8

16. Center Practice: Nazareth Favorito

17. Adagio: Traditional "Llewen lament"

18. Adagio Waltz: Drigo Esmeralda variation

19. Pirouettes, Waltz: Brahms op 39:8, Apffel waltz D

20. Pirouettes: Tchaikovsky Swan Lake act III var

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Charles Anderson, choreographer, teacher, formerly of New York City Ballet
"The series has a wonderful blend of classical and original selections...I particularly enjoy track lengths and tempos."

Kyra Nichols, principal dancer, New York City Ballet
"[These cd's] are wonderful...I now look forward to my workouts because I know the music will inspire me..."

Album Description
This is the first in a series of ballet class cd's by Rudy Apffel, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's preeiminent accompanists, with an emphasis on long tracks for centre and a mix of classical and original music

Music For Ballet Class Vol 1

Music For Ballet Class Vol 1, Music, Rudy Apffel, et al, Rudy Apffel

Music for the Beginners' Ballet Class (Vol. 1)
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this is so wonderful

Music for the Beginners' Ballet Class (Vol. 1)

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Pas de Tot

A Ballet Class with Music By Gershwin

Favorite Classics of Ballet for Ballet Class

Music for Ballet Class

ASIN: B0002ZI2P8
Release Date: 1970-09-15

Tracks:

Plies - slow 3/4-Mozart
Battements Tendus - moderately slow 2/4-Glazounov
Battements Tendus Degages - moderately fast 2/4-Brahms
Battements Tendus Fondus - slow 6/8-Delibes
Ronds de Jambe a Terre - moderate 3/4-Delibes
Adagio - slow 6/8-Field
Battements Frappes - moderate 2/4-Minkus
Petits Battements sur le Cou-de-Pied - moderately fast 2/4-Haydn
Ronds de Jambe en l'air - moderate 3/4-Meyerbeer
Grands Battements - moderately slow 4/4-Minkus
Exercice au Milieu - moderate 2/4-Mozart
Adagio - moderately slow 6/8-Mozart
Pirouette sur Place - moderate 3/4-Schubert
Allegro Technique #1 - moderate 3/4-Brahms
Allegro Technique #2 - moderate 6/8-Meyerbeer
Allegro Technique #3 - moderately fast 3/4-Lvonsjold
Allegro Technique #4 - moderately fast 6/8-Glazounov
Allegro Technique #5 - moderately fast 3/4-Messager
Technique en Diagonale -64 bars moderate 6/8-Glazounov
Technique for Big Jumps - moderately fast 2/4-Glazounov
Technique for Small Jumps - moderate 2/4-Tchaikovsky
Port de Bras & Reverence - slow 4/4-Messager

Album Description

Barre and centre floor technique for the beginner ballet class. Develops strength, style, endurance and projection. Contains 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8 tempos.

Customer Reviews:

this is so wonderful.......2007-07-22

Pas de Tot is so fun and I love it. It means step of the tot. The tot means little child. I was dancer in New York city. I am back now after a while. A little while.

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Excellent performer
A unique project
Gershwin historical, manic, perfect, archival
Definative

Authentic George Gershwin, Vol. 1-4

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0001Z2RSC
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

Swanee
Come To the Moon
I Was So Young (You Were So Beautiful)
Tee-Oodle-Um-bum-Bo
Nobody But You
Limehouse Nights
Drifting Along With The Tide
Rhapsody In Blue
Oh Lady Be Good!
Fascinating Rhythm
Hang On To Me
I'd Rather Charleston
The Man I Love
The Half Of It, Dearie, Blues
So Am I
Kickin' The Clouds Away
Concerto In F

Tracks:

Sweet And Low-Down (I)
That Certain Feeling (I)
Looking For A Boy
When Do We Dance?
Sweet And Low-Down (II)
That Certain Feeling (II)
Irish Waltz
Do, Do, Do
Someone To Watch Over Me
Clap Yo' Hands
Maybe
Three Preludes: I. No.1: Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso / II. No.2: Andante Con Moto / III No.3: Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso
Meadow Serenade
My One And Only
'S Wonderful/Funny Face
He Loves And She Loves
An American In Paris
Liza
Strike Up The Band
Embraceable You
I Got Rhythm (I)
I Got Rhythm (II)

Tracks:

Of Thee I Sing
Jilted
Second Rhapsody
For You, For Me, For Evermore
Cuban Overture
Isn't It A Pity?
Variations On 'I Got Rhythm'
I. Catfish Row: Introduction - Jazzbo Brown - First Chorus, 'Summertime'
II. Porgy Sings: 'I got Plenty O' Nuthin' - 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now'
III. Fugue: Murder Of Crown, Act III Scene 1
IV. Hurricane: Introduction, Act II Scene 3 - Hurricane, Act II Scene 3
V. Good Morning, Brother: Occupational Humoresque, Act III Scene 3 - 'Good Morning, Brother' - Children's Song 'Sure To Go To Heaven' - 'I'm On My Way' (Finale)
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
Our Love Is Here To Stay

Tracks:

Girl Crazy Overture
French Ballet Class
Dance Of The Waves
Slap That Bass
Walking The Dog
I've Got Beginner's Luck
They All Laughed
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Shall We Dance
By Strauss
I Can't Be Bothered Now
The Jolly Tar And The Milkmaid (1st Version)
Put Me To The Test
The Jolly Tar And The Milkmaid (2nd Version)
Stiff Upper Lip
A Foggy day (In London Town)
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Things Are Looking Up
I Was Doing All Right
Love Walked In

Customer Reviews:

Excellent performer.......2007-03-09

This plates are wonderful. I was charmed, and when I close my eyes now, I see scenes with American in Paris or Porgy and Bess but my favorite piece of music is Rhapsody in Blue. It's more than excellent is fantastic. Jack Gibbons perfectly feels the unique tone Gershwin's music, the mixture rythms of jazz with influences of impressionists and clear and beauty melodies.
I'm fascinating.

A unique project.......2006-11-23

Gibbons' undertaking is unique: to reconstruct and then execute and record the note-for-note playing of Gershwin as documented on the composers' piano rolls, sound recordings and certain published arrangements. I agree with the reviewer who points out that the result is like a library and not a recital you sit back and listen to (or get up and dance to). In fact Gibbons does some editing of his "library" now and then, and clearly documents it in his liner notes: in some reconstructions he augments accompaniment effects and even the melodic line itself. I don't mind that at all, especially as Gibbons scrupulously accounts for such tampering in his liner notes; but it seems to me that it is in this area of "tampering" that Gibbons the artist is asserting himself...which of course undermines the "library", the "historical archive": you have to search and read a bit to find out when you're hearing only Gershwin and when you're hearing some added Gibbons. I don't mind; Gibbons is a remarkable artist in his own right, not merely an impeccable documentarian. For sheer generosity of production Gibbons' Gershwin must also be unique: 4 cd's, scholar-level liner notes (yes, you need a magnifying glass to read them), and rock-bottom bargain price.

Gershwin historical, manic, perfect, archival.......2006-06-12

First: this is 4 high-end produced cd's (in low-end jewel cases) for the price of 2. The liner notes of all 4 cd's are condensed in a booklet of microscopic print, so you may need to spend the savings on a magnifying glass. MONEY WELL SPENT.
Second: Jack Gibbons plays (and has recorded) the Alkan op 39 etudes (he probably plays a lot more Alkan than that). For those of you not in the know, this is to say he has world-class chops, indeed history-class (Liszt, who never played his friend Alkan, at least in public). But it's also to say that Gibbons knows how to interpret and personalize fantastically difficult piano music. For me, his Alkan op 39 is personal and passionate and real (contrast the facile and over-pedalled Hamelin and the just-the-notes-ma'me Ringeissen). An appreciation of Gibbons' Alkan is important here because while his Alkan is uniquely personal (as such music must be, no matter how hard it is to play) his Gershwin is deliberately impersonal...which is to say: no pianist, no singer would want to reproduce what Gibbons has given us in these 4 cd's, and in fact few listeners will be able to listen for long to these 4 cd's without a respite, a break , some silence, some minimal styling from somebody (anybody) else...which brings me to
Third: This is an archive, not a recital. This is a library, not a program. There is no track-by-track contrast of moods here, no track-by-track concession to easy listening, varied delight, any more than a library shelf of novels is alphabetized by authors' last names as a concession to mood or fancy or taste of the searching patron. This is the documented Gershwin in his recording mode: manic, notey, clever, "on", and never, as generations of stylists found in him, ravishing, tender, longing, sweet, glad, hopeful...person-to-person, in a word. I can listen to these cd's about half an hour at a time, max. This is Gerwhsin, not Gibbons. And this is just one side of Gershwin. He died at 38, in the summer. Brain tumor. A lot of pain.
Finally, Jack Gibbons has given the world a uniquely valuable and easily available resource. Gibbons could now do us a service by playing us some Gershwin as he feels it, as it hits him and makes him sing (as Gershwin, our American Schubert, does to all of us, and as I think Alkan has done to Gibbons). I would love to see a Gershwin stylings by Gibbons now that Gibbons himself has made sure Gershwin in his authenticity is safe and sound.

Definative.......2005-07-23

Here's the whole Gershwin catalog at a great price... Five plus hours of bliss. Definately five stars!

Gibbons, according to a family friend and biographer Edward jablonski "recreates Gershwin's style." I'll never know. I can say this is a lively recording and has the perfect balance. It's neither stuffy and plodding or cute.

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Music for the Ballet Class-Vol.1 & 2

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Binding: Audio CD
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Michael Roberts Original Music for the Ballet Class Volume 7

ASIN: B0007D5ZE6
Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

Plies - Rimsky-Korsakoff
Battements Tendus - Tchaikovsky
Battements Tendus Degages - Brahms
Battements Tendus Fondus - Rossini
Ronds a Jambe a Terre - Tchaikovsky
Adagio - Massenet
Battements Frappes - Grieg
Petit Battements sur le cou-de-pied - Brahms
Ronds de Jambe en l'air - Scriabin
Grands Battements - Wagner
Epaulement Exercise - Tchaikovsky
Adagio - Rimsky-Korsakoff
Allegro #1 - Tchaikovsky
Allegro #2 - Drigo
Allegro #3 - Solow
Allegro #4 - Offenbach
Allegro #5 - Moszkowski
Tour en Diagonale - Verdi
Pirouette sur Place - Blumenfeld
Big Jumps - Tchaikovsky
Small Jumps - Chopin
Port de Bras & Reverence - Offenbach
Plies - Liszt
Battements Tendus - Beethoven
Battements Tendus Degages - Rossini
Battements Tendus Fondus - Rebikoff
Ronds de Jambe a Terre - Brahms
Adagio - Puccini
Battements Frappes - Rimsky-Korsakoff
Petits Battements sur le cou-de-pied - Rubenstein
Ronds de Jambe en l'air - Tchaikovsky
Grands Battements - Wagner
Epaulement Exercise - Verdi
Adagio - Rimsky-Korsakoff
Allegro #1 - Gounod
Allegro #2 - Borodin
Allegro #3 - Borodin
Allegro #4 - Rossini
Allegro #5 - Suk
Tour en Diagonale - Nicolai
Pirouette sur Place - Beethoven
Big Jumps - Chopin
Small Jumps - Mendelssohn
Port de Bras & Reverence - Puccini

Album Description

Barre & Centre Floor Technique for Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced students. Double length CD.

Average customer rating:

helpful for getting back to class
Very Beautiful Music
great class cds
just about the best out there
excellent cd's

Music For Ballet Class Vol 1

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007E90G
Release Date: 2002-11-01

Tracks:

Warm Up: after Bach prelude bwv 924
Pli After Schumann Symphonic Etudes
Battements Tendues: Faurp 73, theme
Battements Tendues: Faurp 73, var 1
Battements Tendues: Bertini etude c
Battements Dg Dvorak Slavonic dance #3
Battements Dg after Dvorak Slavonic dance #3
Ronds de Jambe a Terre: Chopin mazurka op 17:3
Battements Fondues: from Gershwin concerto F
Ronds de Jambe en l'air: Cramer etude g
Battements Frapp from Verdi La Traviata
Adagio: After Chopin nocturne op 15:1
Petits Battements: Nazareth Remando
Grands Battements: Brahms Paganini vars I:8
Center Practice: Brahms Handel variations 17 & 8
Center Practice: Nazareth Favorito
Adagio: Traditional "Llewen lament"
Adagio Waltz: Drigo Esmeralda variation
Pirouettes, Waltz: Brahms op 39:8, Apffel waltz D
Pirouettes: Tchaikovsky Swan Lake act III var
Petit Allegro: after Tchaikovsky Swan Lake var
Grand Allegro: Apffel waltz d
Grand Allegro: Widor waltz op 11:1
Coda, Galop: Minkus from Bayadere & Paquita
Reverence: after Dvorak Humoreske

Album Description

This is the first in a series of ballet class cd's by Rudy Apffel, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's preeiminent accompanists, with an emphasis on long tracks for centre and a mix of classical and original music

Customer Reviews:

helpful for getting back to class.......2007-07-01

to this Listening CD is like being in class in New York. It is excellent for teaching an intermediate or and class advanced it is also great for a class. giving oneself

Very Beautiful Music.......2007-02-08

Very beautiful Music. The adages and stretch and rondejamb are the most beautiful music I have heard. The slow waltz in the centre is perfect for my teaching, and also the lyrical waltz a little faster for turns, and they are both long enough for groups en diagonal. I love the tangos and ragtime also! I use some Michael Roberts and Steven Mitchell for the barre, but I now always use Rudy Apfel for centre. One needs a wide variety in the collection for different levels.

great class cds.......2007-01-08

--i have all rudy's cd's including no 6 and here's some things i really like about them
--GREAT MUSIC--right, everybody knows that already about rudy, but i got to say rudy's classical music and bach and gershwin is way beyond anything you can get on ballet records, the pieces he arranges for combos are played full out and TELL THE REST OF THE STORY (like the chopin songs that have this whole second part i never heard before on the ballet records and the gershwin songs that have the middle part i never got to hear before), AND there all even counts and prhases up to 8 and 16 so you don't get stranded out in the second side or reverse, which to me shows rudy really works out his music for the teacher first and the class, not like some i could mention
--good bar and center layout, you don't have to use rudy's order but i like it a lot, i like the tendue-degage block, and the center is perfectly ok because you teach center a little different every time, start with adage maybe or start with temps-lie practice, whatever, but rudy's center is laid out so you can decide whatever you want, petit allegro in 3 or in 2, grand allegro fast or slow, i like that a lot, not just one kind of petit allegro or one kind of grand allegro, and there all LONG, at least 1 side 2 times, so one class you use one type and the next class you use another one
--great liner notes: how long in phrases of 8, for the bar this is great because of course you put the combo together in terms of what you hear when you set class to a record but i like the way rudy is in tune with phrases of 8 and also the time and tempo he describes in the notes, it's a little thing but it shows rudy understands class
--there's a lot of music on all rudy's cd's which you don't use in just one class, especially center, which is really great because you go thru 2 maybe 3 classes before you even used all the music once and the kids have to stay on the ball so they don't get used to the same-old
--the SAME-OLD is the main thing for me, i got to use cd's a lot now and the kids get used to the same old ones and they stop listening, and as a dancer that's THE END if you stop listening and these new rudy cd's make them listen
--i'm hoping the other ballet cd piano people are LISTEN TOO

just about the best out there.......2006-12-25

Finally ballet class music on records is catching up with the times! The records from the 60's and 70's with the twinkle-little-star tune repeated twice, then stop, then prepare and repeat, that was all you could get into the end of the 90's, and you had to teach that way if you didn't have an accompanyist. I've been taking class for almost 50 years, and i've been teaching for 30 years, and I have been WAITING AND WAITING for class records that are made the way a real class is taught. I think a lot of the problem was with certain FAMOUS teachers who supervised the old ballet class records so that you got these tiny combinations and stop-and-prepare. I couldn't stand that when I was taking class, and it doesn't prepare a dancer for the ENDURANCE and CONCENTRATING we need on stage. Doug Schultz and Michael Roberts have been in the business a long time and their newer records are in tune with the changes now where longer music is needed for longer combinations. These new ballet cd's of Rudy are just about the best so far, especially centre combinations that you can go on for 6 or 8 groups twice through on the first side. I see a lot of reviews of these ballet cd's and I agree also that the music is REALLY beautiful. But the main thing for me is even counts and enough music for 2 sides on the barre and good centre music for multiple groups and also steady tempo and Rudy's music is perfect that way. Also when you start teaching with Rudy's cd's you get used to it and it's actually hard to go back to the old records. LOL! In fact YOU CAN"T go back to the old records!

excellent cd's.......2006-12-11

I started using Rudy's cd's about a year ago and I've been using them more and more. The length of the tracks and the passion and beauty of the music has influenced my class teaching, not only how I put the barre together and center combinations, but also because many of my regular students now request these cd's when we don't have our pianist. I hope that Rudy will make five more of these excellent cd's!

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1. Warm Up: after Bach prelude bwv 924
2. Pliés: After Schumann Symphonic Etudes
3. Battements Tendues: Fauré op 73, theme
4. Battements Tendues: Fauré op 73, var 1
5. Battements Tendues: Bertini etude c
6. Battements Dégagés: Dvorak Slavonic dance #3
7. Battements Dégagés: after Dvorak Slavonic dance #3
8. Ronds de Jambe a Terre: Chopin mazurka op 17:3
9. Battements Fondues: from Gershwin concerto F
10. Ronds de Jambe en l'air: Cramer etude g
11. Battements Frappés: from Verdi La Traviata
12. Adagio: After Chopin nocturne op 15:1
13. Petits Battements: Nazareth Remando
14. Grands Battements: Brahms Paganini vars I:8
15. Center Practice: Brahms Handel variations 17 & 8
16. Center Practice: Nazareth Favorito
17. Adagio: Traditional "Llewen lament"
18. Adagio Waltz: Drigo Esmeralda variation
19. Pirouettes, Waltz: Brahms op 39:8, Apffel waltz D
20. Pirouettes: Tchaikovsky Swan Lake act III var