Dances from the Gayane Ballet (Part 4)

(1964) A short clip of Khachaturian's Ballet Gayane with the composer, himself, conducting.
DANCERS (from the Bolshoi Theatre):
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Nina Timofeyeva
Elena Cherkavskaya
Yuri Zhdanov
Vladimir Koshelev

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[DmitriMose]

Also, in the most popular (and Khachaturian's most favourite version of the ballet), the Sabre Dance is NOT the finale (or the last movement). It is near the end. I think the 47th of the 50 movements.

[DmitriMose]

Umm. I'm a specialist on Khachaturian. And it's my video, so listen well... Aram Khachaturian was an Armenian (i.e. BORN TO 2 ARMENIAN PARENTS) in Georgia 1903. He wrote the Sabre Dance (Սուսերով Պար in Armenian) after the commissioner of the ballet asked him to write one more movement. He wrote it the night before the premiere of te ballet (I think). The movement is heavily "Armenian-influenced," but CERTAINLY not an Armenian dance per se.

I Am Armenian...

[jzpatelut]

@DmitriMose superb ballet Show by The Great 'Aram Khachaturian'... Thanks ...Many Thanks...jzpatelut....

[jzpatelut]

@DmitriMose YES YES SO IT IS WITH ME MORE THAN YOU FOR DEAR 'ARAM KACHATURIAN' ...BUT I AM NOT ARMENIAN...THANK YOU....jzpatelut....

[AphroditeEros33]

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[miccharlie]

@DmitriMose: My favourite composer of his era. Very much like Tchaikovsky. And no doubt about it, he was Armenian. Got to know Prokofiev quite well, apparently. And Sibelius. The forgotten great (at least in the UK) of the early 20th Century. Played his Toccata at a recital, and the ballets are phenomenal.

How do you specialise in Khachaturian? As a performer? Composer? Professor?

[miccharlie]

@DmitriMose: My favourite composer of his era. Very much like Tchaikovsky. And no doubt about it, he was Armenian. Got to know Prokofiev quite well, apparently. And Sibelius. The forgotten great (at least in the UK) of the early 20th Century. Played his Toccata at a recital, and the ballets are phenomenal.

How do you specialise in Khachaturian? As a performer? Composer? Professor?

[miccharlie]

@DmitriMose My favourite composer of his era. Very much like Tchaikovsky. And no doubt about it, he was Armenian. Got to know Prokofiev quite well, apparently. And Sibelius. The forgotten great (at least in the UK) of the early 20th Century. Played his Toccata at a recital, and the ballets are phenomenal.

How do you specialise in Khachaturian? As a performer? Composer? Professor?

[miccharlie]

@DmitriMose: Yes, of course Khachaturian was Armenian! I played his Toccata for a recital, and love the ballets. The music reminds me of Tchaikovsky though. Still, Khachaturian was a very international composer: Finland, France, America... he did travel a lot, and learn with some amazing composers, including Sibelius.

DmitriMose, are you a composer? Performer? How did you get into specialising in Khachaturian?

[MrMrMikayel]

Bravo!!!

[Karlfalcon]

This is not at all how I had imagined this movement.

All these years I've been picturing some huge shirtless hairy guy spinning and twirling a giant sword around for 2 and a half minutes.

In fact I'd still like to see that done to this music. :)

[Karlfalcon]

the Sabre dance, that is.