Sleeping Beauty

The theme of reawakening, of new life, runs through the music of Sleeping Beauty – from the radiant spring light of Kristjan Järvi’s Aurora to the fairytale magic of Sleeping Beauty, with its princess awakened by a kiss. Kristjan Järvi has compiled extracts from Tchaikovsky’s sublime ballet and subsequent concert suite arrangements and created a wonderfully compelling Dramatic Symphony.

» He calls his Sleeping Beauty a ‘dramatic symphony' and indeed the result is gripping, intoxicating, dazzlingly beautiful. With his highly motivated Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Järvi gives the orchestra the role of a narrator «