Robert Craft - Later Ballets: Jeu de Cartes Danses Concertantes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Commissioned by George Balanchine, Jeu de cartes is a prime example of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas emerging helter-skelter from Stravinsky' imagination. Unlike his other ballets, it contains no slow music and no lovers' pas-de-deux adagio. Album Tracks 1. First Deal 2. Second Deal 3. Third Deal 4. Marche - Introduction 5. Pas D' Action - Con Moto 6. Thã¨Me Variã© Lento with Four Variations and Coda (Allegretto - Scherzando - Andantino - Tempo Gioco 7. Pas-De-Deux Risoputo - Andante Sostenuto 8. Marche - Conclusion 9. Introduction Andante 10. Danses (Corps de Ballet) Moderato 11. Variations (Ballerina) Con Moto 12. Pantomime Lento, Andantino, Piã¹ Mosso - Pas-De-Deux Adagio 13. Pantomime Agitato 14. Variation Risoluto - Variation (Ballerina) Andantino - Pantomime Andantino - Danses (Corps de Ba 15. Apothã©Ose 16. Allegro 17. Andante Rapsodico 18. Allegro Capriccioso