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Amjad

Ballet music after Tchaikovsky for 2 violas, cello and piano
Original choreography by Édouard Lock
Edition: Performance material
Product Type
Hire/performance material

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Description

Amjad is a reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s iconic ballets Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty merged into a feverish dream world. Working with choreographer Édouard Lock, Bryars created an extraordinary work which is at once familiar and unfamiliar. Iconic moments from the original scores have been abstracted and transformed, woven into a new palette, dark with the sounds of two violas, cello and piano. Bryars notes: ‘My aim was to find a balance between providing a direct and recognizable reference to the Tchaikovsky source and my own compositional idiom.’

Content

I Swan Lake no. 2, Tempo di Valse
II Swan lake no. 4, Pas de Trois
III Swan Lake no. 5, Pas de Deux
IV Swan Lake no. 6, Pas d'action - V Swan Lake no. 9, Finale - VI Swan Lake no. 11, Scène
VII Swan Lake no. 13b, Danse des Cygnes
VIII Swan Lake no. 13, Danse des Cygnes
IX Swan Lake no. 13f, Danse des Cygnes
X Swan Lake no. 17, Sortie des Invités et Valse
XI Swan Lake no. 29, Scène Finale. Andante
XII Sleeping Beauty no. 8, "Rose Adagio"
XIII Sleeping Beauty Act II, no. 15, Pas d'action - XIV Sleeping Beauty Act 2, no. 17, Panorama
XV Sleeping Beauty no. 18 Entr'acte
XVI Sleeping Beauty Act 2, no. 28, Pas de Deux

More Information

Title:
Amjad
Ballet music after Tchaikovsky for 2 violas, cello and piano
Original choreography by Édouard Lock
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2007
Duration:
90 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
April 20, 2007 · Ottawa, ON (CA)
Centre National des Arts
"Amjad"
Jill Van Geeand and Jennifer Thiessen, violas; Élisabeth Giroux, violoncello; Njo Kong Kie, piano
Choreography: Edouard Lock · La La La Human Steps
(scenic)
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by La La La Human Steps

Technical Details

Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSL 10136-01
Manufacturer:
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG
55116 Mainz
Germany

Performances

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  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    January 10, 2012 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    20.00 h
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    January 5, 2012 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    20.00 h
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    December 22, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    21.00 h
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    November 27, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    15.00 h
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    November 25, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    20.00 h
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    November 12, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    19.30 h
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    November 1, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    19.30 h
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    October 29, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater — First Night
    19.30 h
  • Amjad
    October 29, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater Bielefeld
  • Amjad
    Schwanengesang
    Conductor: Christian van den Berg
    Orchestra: Bielefelder Philharmoniker
    October 23, 2011 | Bielefeld (Germany) , Theater
    17.00 - Soiree
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    May 2, 2009 | Montréal, QC (Canada) , Place des Arts
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    May 1, 2009 | Montréal, QC (Canada) , Place des Arts
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    April 30, 2009 | Montréal, QC (Canada) , Place des Arts
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    April 7, 2009 | Tilburg (Netherlands) , Theaters Tilburg
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    April 2, 2009 | Ferrara (Italy) , Teatro Comunale
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    March 27, 2009 | Bordeaux (France) , Théâtre National de Bordeaux
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    March 26, 2009 | Bordeaux (France) , Théâtre National de Bordeaux
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    March 25, 2009 | Bordeaux (France) , Théâtre National de Bordeaux
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    March 19, 2009 | Maastricht (Netherlands) , Theater het Vrijthof
  • Amjad
    AMJAD – World Tour 2008-2009
    March 13, 2009 | Ludwigshafen (Germany) , Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
    19.30 h
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