Naxos has an album entitled (in part),
Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty - Glazunov - The Seasons. Today, we are allowed to download
free from that album, the piece
Sleeping Beauty: Waltz. This comes courtesy of YourClassical.com (among others, I'm sure).
Briefly, let me state the credits and give some other basic information about the album. It is performed, according to the album cover, by CSR Symphony Orchestra. However,
the dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece credits Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Without researching it, I have strong reason to believe that these are one in the same. CSR probably stands for Czech-Slovak (Bratislava is in the Czech Republic). I suspect, that at some point, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra became its own independent organization. Both the album cover and the webpage are in agreement that the conductor is Ongrej Lenard. You can find out a lot more other things about the album, by pointing your browser to
this dedicated Naxos webpage for the album.
Interested in downloading the entire, 4 minute, 38 second, MP3
free piece? Point your web browser to
the dedicated YourClassical webpage for the piece. Find the link that says "Direct MP3 download link," and click on it. That should cause the file with the
free piece to download to the default place on your computer or MP3 player where such things get downloaded to. You might be interested, for some reason, in streaming the piece. You can do that, too, by going to
the dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece.
My opinion of the piece? It is unremarkable, but not pedestrian.
A question for you all. Was this piece played in the Disney
Sleeping Beauty animated movie? I'm almost sure that I watched the movie as a very young child, shortly after it was released, but, of course, I don't remember the scores in the movie. Was the name of the movie, "Sleeping Beauty," taken from the name of this Tchaikovsky piece? I'm asking, genuinely, for information, because I'm curious, but don't know the answer.