Petipa & Koreshchenko's "The Magic Mirror" - Music excerpts, 1903

Here are 4 extremely rare pieces from Marius Petipa's ill-fated ballet "Le Miroir magique" ("The Magic Mirror"). The ballet was set to the music of the avant-garde composer Arsenii Koreshchenko (1870--1921), & was given its first performance for Petipa's retirement benefit at the Mariinsky Theatre on 22 February [O.S. 9 February] 1903. With my upload is the set design for the ballet of Alexandre Golovine.


1. Scène
2. Adage (this may be by Riccardo Drigo, who Petipa had tweak the score after the original premiere jointly with Koreshchenko - it is absent from the published piano reduction of the full score)
3. Variation
4. Valse de la Princess (Variation pour Mlle. Mathilde Kschessinskaya)

--Enjoy!!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Marius Petipa
• Arsenii Koreshchenko
• Mariinksy Theater
• Kirov Theatre
• Ballet

[palubob]

Beautiful. Thank you yet again.

[sunnybrett]

Where did you dig this partiture from?...the only time I hear this music was in 1991 at the confenrence in RU....did someone decide to do "reconstruction"?

Kschessinskaya did talk about this ballet briefly...



[louiselins]

Thanks! Do you have a good record from The Talisman Pas de Deux?

[palomaherrera]

Precius! ^o^

[snookiebarrett]

Wow! Amazing....... thanks!

[BalletBabyBoy]

Wonderful, thank you!