Many moons ago I listened to a cassette tape with classical music on it. Now you know, cassette tapes aren't like CDs where you know exactly what track you're listening to and to make things even more complicated, classical music pieces often consist of several movements or arias under one name. Hence I never quite knew what I was listening to on this tape. I just knew it was beauty personified and I thought it was something by Tchaikowsky.
Recently I've been haunted by this beautiful melody. I just had to hear it again. But where to start?
For some reason - in retrospect I have no idea why - I thought it was an overture from Tchaikowsky's opera Eugene Onegin. In my imagination I could "see" the inside sleeve of the cassette tape:
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III. Sabre Dance from Gayane (Aram Khachaturian)
IV. Overture from Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky)
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So I went on YouTube and listened to the Eugene Onegin overture. Alas, it was not what I was looking for. I also listened to a few of the other more famous arias from this opera, but again, they were not the piece I was looking for.
Back at my mom's house, I went through her old collection of cassette tapes to try to track down the piece I had listened to all those years ago. But I couldn't find it! It drove me insane! Nowhere could I find that cassette tape with the inside sleeve listing the Sabre Dance followed by the Eugene Onegin overture.
Unless...?
There was a cassette tape with the Sabre Dance on it, followed immediately by Pas De Deux from Tchaikowsky's The Nutcracker. But surely that's not it? I'm looking for the overture from Eugene Onegin, not Pas De Deux from The Nutcracker!
Exasperated, I decided to listen to this cassette tape, just in case. And behold, there it was, that same beautiful melody that I've had in my mind of late.
[video=youtube_share;YR5USHu6D6U]http://youtu.be/YR5USHu6D6U[/video]
It is the Pas De Deux from Tchaikowsky's ballet The Nutcracker. Pas De Deux means step for two, or dance for two.
Recently I've been haunted by this beautiful melody. I just had to hear it again. But where to start?
For some reason - in retrospect I have no idea why - I thought it was an overture from Tchaikowsky's opera Eugene Onegin. In my imagination I could "see" the inside sleeve of the cassette tape:
.
.
.
III. Sabre Dance from Gayane (Aram Khachaturian)
IV. Overture from Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky)
.
.
.
So I went on YouTube and listened to the Eugene Onegin overture. Alas, it was not what I was looking for. I also listened to a few of the other more famous arias from this opera, but again, they were not the piece I was looking for.
Back at my mom's house, I went through her old collection of cassette tapes to try to track down the piece I had listened to all those years ago. But I couldn't find it! It drove me insane! Nowhere could I find that cassette tape with the inside sleeve listing the Sabre Dance followed by the Eugene Onegin overture.
Unless...?
There was a cassette tape with the Sabre Dance on it, followed immediately by Pas De Deux from Tchaikowsky's The Nutcracker. But surely that's not it? I'm looking for the overture from Eugene Onegin, not Pas De Deux from The Nutcracker!
Exasperated, I decided to listen to this cassette tape, just in case. And behold, there it was, that same beautiful melody that I've had in my mind of late.
[video=youtube_share;YR5USHu6D6U]http://youtu.be/YR5USHu6D6U[/video]
It is the Pas De Deux from Tchaikowsky's ballet The Nutcracker. Pas De Deux means step for two, or dance for two.
