Conducted and hosted by Mátyás Antal Featuring: ballet dancers Bach: Suites in C major and B minor – selection Mozart: Minuet, K. 601 Mozart: German Dance, K. 600 J. Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz – extract J. Strauss: Anna Polka Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker – extracts Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – extracts Erkel: László Hunyadi – palotás Erkel: Bánk bán – csárdás De Falla: The Three Cornered Hat – extract Ravel: Bolero – extract Music and dance, song and motion, from ancient times these have bee...n inseparable terms. The word “chorus” is from Greek and originally meant a place for dance, a circle dance and even a dance song. Cultic circle dances were linked with song, and eventually festive dances were joined by different instruments. Another later ancient version of dance was pantomime (meaning “mimicking everything”) which was movement theatre accompanied by music. For a while in early Christianity, dance became separated from music because dance evoked the mood of heathen rituals, but around 1200 music was again paired with dance in church processions. The music of early Baroque fused dance music, usually by contrasting dances with even and uneven rhythms in pairs (pavane–gagliarde, saltarello–passamezzo etc.). The Italian court social dance, the ballo was an early precursor of ballet. The ballo and balletto were spectacular insert numbers of theatrical works which later – primarily in French grand opera – evolved into an independent genre. In its opening concert of the youth series, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra presents a number of Baroque dance types, as well as the minuet (French dance in uneven rhythm), palotás (Hungarian court dance), csárdás (18th century, even rhythm Hungarian dance), and ballet extracts including the Bolero which is an 18th century Spanish dance where touching was not allowed.
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