Amjad

Ballet music after Tchaikovsky for 2 violas, cello and piano

Original choreography by Édouard Lock

Edition: Performance material

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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

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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 ′

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