Classes

The Music for Ballet Classes series is a collection of CDs designed to provide dancers and dance teachers with all the music necessary for a complete classical ballet class. The featured piano on this album is a fantastic Fazioli concert grand with a wonderfully deep and resonant timbre. 
This fourth volume marks a departure from those previous in that tracks are not repeated for barre exercises, in order to provide some exercises with alternative tempi or time signatures. This makes Volume 4 the most flexible and best value album to date, featuring 40 separate tracks that span a wide variety of musical genres

09 - Battement Fondu On A 3 - Bethena, A Concert Waltz - Scott Joplin - Preview

04 - Battement Tendu On A 4 - Pas De Trois Male Variation From Paquita - Lugwig Minkus - Preview

03 - Battement Tendu On A 3 - La Donna E Mobile From Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi - Preview

02 - Plies - Napoli Pas De Six Adagio - Holger Simon Paulli - Preview

28 - Ballone - Amintas Variation From Sylvia - Leo Delibes - Preview

32 - Grand Allegro Faster - Franzs Variation From Coppelia Act 3 - Leo Delibes - Preview

34 - Fouettes - Kitris Variation From Don Quixote Act 1 - Ludwig Minkus

The Music for Ballet Classes series is a collection of CDs designed to provide dancers and dance teachers with all the music necessary for a complete classical ballet class. The featured piano on this album is a fantastic 9ft Yamaha concert grand.
This is the 5th volume of in the series, and features a further 40 tracks of inspiring music taken from some of the greatest classical, opera, ballet and ragtime composers to have ever lived.


20 - Adage (slow) - Dance With Paris From Romeo And Juliet - Sergei Prokofiev

08 - Rond De Jambe - Waltz In A Minor - Frederic Chopin

New England Conservatory students Julia Connor (Violin), Sarah-Hadley Yakir (Violin), Jessica Pickersgill (Viola), Noémie Raymond-Friset (Cello) perform Beethoven’s Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 11 in F minor, Op. 95 "Serioso" . Recorded live in Jordan hall, Boston, December 3, 2015.

Beethoven Quartets

Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 11 in F minor, Op. 95 Allegretto ma non troppo

Albinoni Oboe Concerto in D minor played on a C clarinet with Music Minus One

1. White Christmas
2. White Christmas (part II)
feauring Saori Yuki
3. Shchedryk (Ukrainian Bell Carol)
4. Santa Baby
5. Elohai, N’tzor
6. Little Drummer Boy
7. Congratulations – A Happy New Year Song
8. Do You Hear What I Hear?
9. La Vergine Degli Angeli
10. We Three Kings
11. A Snowglobe Christmas
12. Ocho Kandelikas (Eight Little Candles)
13. Silent Night
14. Auld Lang Syne

Joy To The World is a festive, nondenominational holiday album with music from around the globe. “There are 14 songs on Joy to the World,” says Thomas Lauderdale, “including well-known traditional holiday songs like Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”…sung by China Forbes in English and by the incredible Saori Yuki… the Barbra Streisand of Japan… in Japanese. With the Pacific Youth Choir and the handbell choir Bells of the Cascades, we recorded “Shchedryk,” known in English-speaking countries as “Carol of the Bells,” with the original Ukrainian text which tells of a lark flying into the house at the start of a new year, thus bringing good fortune. We recorded a Hebrew prayer “Elohai N’tzor” with Ida Rae Cahana and Ari Shapiro and Patricia Costa Kim. (Ida Rae Cahana was for many years the canter at Central Synagogue in New York City and now lives in Portland… Ari Shapiro is the NPR White House correspondent… and accordionist Patricia Costa Kim was just named director of education at Experience Music Project in Seattle, but is also known by millions on YouTube as the keyboardist bandleader of Sonseed and their Christian ska song “Jesus is a friend of mine”). There’s a Chinese New Year song from 1946, a Felainspired version of “We Three kings,” a song in Ladino (the intersection of Spanish and Hebrew), “Silent Night” in the original German, as well as a verse in Arabic and another in English. The album ends with a samba parade of “Auld Lang Syne” with choruses in English, Arabic and French over the incredible percussion of the Lions of Batucada.” Lauderdale notes, “I love the holidays and all the music that goes with it. We strove to make an inclusive and non-denominational album that could be played anywhere in the world.”

Elohai, N'Tzor

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

Smetana Selections From The Bartered Bride (December 2017)

01 Plie 3-4

G.F.Handel - The Water Music

Jerusalem Theater
Live broacast from the Radio Kol Hamusica. jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Frederic Chaslin, conductor.

BEETHOVEN 7th Symphony, JSO, Frédéric Chaslin

Charles Mathews is an experienced ballet and contemporary accompanist, who has worked with teachers and dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet, Elmhurst School for Dance, The Royal Academy of Dance, The Royal Ballet School, The British Ballet Organisation and DNA3D Dance Company amongst others. As well as playing for classical ballet, Charles also plays and improvises for contemporary dance classes and composes original music and arrangements for ballet and contemporary dancers. He has also written and recorded music for film trailers, computer games, mobile apps, the opening ceremonies of the European Gymnastics Championships and 2011 World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne, Switzerland.  Charles can be contacted via http://www.musicforballetclasses.com

28 - Ballone - Amintas Variation From Sylvia - Leo Delibes - Preview

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