As requested by musical Empire 2012, here's the Pas de Deux from the first act of Swan Lake in 8-bit.
This remarkable Pas de Deux can be divided into distinct sections, and I'll provide timestamps and brief descriptions for them below.
Tempo di valse ma non troppo vivo, quasi moderato (0:00)
The Pas de Deux from Act 1 opens with a lovely waltz full of pure Tchaikovskian beauty. It ends with a sudden bang, however, leading into...
Andante – Allegro (2:39)
A broad and beautiful piece with a near uninterrupted violin solo, sometimes serving as an accompanist but mostly as an affecting singer carrying the melody on its shoulders. If someone told me had told me before knowing about this piece that it was part of a Violin Concerto, there's a good chance I would have believed them.
Tempo di valse (7:15)
Here we get a second waltz, completely different from the first, but just as lovely. Tchaikovsky's mastery over the compositions of waltzes is something that will never cease to amaze.
Coda: Allegro molto vivace (8:52)
The Pas de Deux concludes giddily with a glorious romp of a coda. The sheer excitement at display here is all but irresistible. Tchaikovsky's characteristic abuse of the percussion ensemble in these kinds of passages doesn't help very much in contradicting that notion.
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