100 Best Ballet (music from Swan Lake, Cinderella, Le Corsaire, les Deux Pigeons, Rodeo, Nutcracker, etc)
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100 BEST BALLET
100 Best Ballet (music from Swan Lake, Cinderella, Le Corsaire, les Deux Pigeons, Rodeo, Nutcracker, etc)
The Philadelphia orchestra, London Symphony, City of Birmingham, Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Orchestra, etc
[ EMI Classics / 6 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 9 June 2008
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
This 6 CD set contains an unrivalled collection of 100 favourite Ballet Classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. Includes excerpts from 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Swan Lake', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'The Rite of Spring' & 'Spartacus'.
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This 6 CD set contains an unrivalled collection of 100 favourite Ballet Classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists.
CD 1: The Three Tchaikovsky Ballets
CD 2: Russian Ballet
CD 3: Classic French Ballets
CD 4: Diaghilev Ballets
CD 5: Ballet in Britain
CD 6: Ballet in America
Tracks:
Disc 1
The Three Tchaikovsky Ballets:
Swan Lake Op.20 -
Scene (Moderato)
Waltz (Tempo di valse)
Dances of the Swans (Nos 4 & 5)
Hungarian Dance
Spanish Dance
Neapolitan Dance
Mazurka
Sleeping Beauty Op. 66 -
Introduction
Pas d'action: Rose Adagio
Panorama (Andantino)
Waltz (Allegro: Tempo di valse)
The Nutcracker Op. 71 -
Overture.
March
Trepak (Russian Dance)
Chocolate (Spanish Dance)
Coffee (Arab Dance)
Tea (Chinese Dance)
Dance of the Reed Flutes
Waltz of the Flowers
Disc 2
Russian Ballet:
Eugene Onegin [Tchaikovsky]: Polonaise (Act III)
Don Quixote [Minkus]: Pas de Deux (Act III)
La Bayadere [Minkus]: The Kingdom of the Shades: Conclusion
Romeo and Juliet [Prokofiev]: Dance of the Knights / Balcony Scene
Cinderella Op. 87 [Prokofiev]: Pas de chale (Allegretto) /Fairies: Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter (Act 1) /Pas de deux: The Prince and Cinderella (Adagio)
Spartacus [Khachaturian]: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
The Age Of Gold Suite, Op. 22 [Shostakovich]: Polka
Gayaneh [Khachaturian]: Sabre Dance / Dance of the Rose-Maidens / Lezghinka
Disc 3
Classic French Ballets:
La Fille Mal Garde: Introduction - Dance of the Cock and Hens (Act I) / Widow Simone - Clog Dance (Act II) / Pas de deux / Finale
Giselle [Adam]: Valse (Act I) / Pas de deux (Act II)
Le Corsaire [Drigo]: Pas de deux et Variations (interpolation for 1899 revival)
Faust Ballet Music [Gounod] Les nubiennes - Variation du miroir - Danse de Phryne
Coppelia [Delibes]: Prelude & Mazurka / Waltz / Czardas
Gaite Parisienne [music of Offenbach]: Overture (La Vie Parisienne)
Sylvia [Delibes]: Les Chasseresses / Intermezzo & Valse lente
Pizzicati The Two Pigeons [Messager]: Dance of the Two Pigeons (Allegretto) / Dance of the Gypsies (Pesante alla marcia) / Scene 1 (A gypsy encampment) /Hungarian Dance (Allegretto pesante)
Bolero [Ravel,abbrev. version, arr. Bates]
Disc 4
Diaghilev Ballets:
Petrushka:
Le tour de passe-passe - Danse russe
Les Sylphides [music of Chopin]:
Prelude in A, Op.28, No.7
Grande Valse brillante in E flat, Op.18
La Boutique fantasque [music of Rossini]:
Cancan
Les Biches [Poulenc]:
Rondeau
Adagietto
Rag-Mazurka
The Rite of Spring, 'Le sacre du printemps' [Stravinsky]:
PART 1: L'adoration de la terre:
Introduction - Les augures printaniers - Danse des adolescentes - Jeu de rapt
Prelude e l'apres-midi d'un faune [Debussy]
El Sombrero de tres picos [de Falla]:
Danza del Corregidor
Apollo [Stravinsky]:
Naissance d'Apollon
Daphnis et Chloe [Ravel]:
Danse generale - Bacchanale
Scheherazade Op. 35 [Rimsky-Korsakov]
The Story of the Kalendar Prince
Parade [Satie] Finale
The Firebird [Stravinsky] Final Scene
Disc 5
Ballet in Britain:
Birthday Offering: Overture-Entee-Grand Adagio and Coda
Variations symphoniques [Franck]: Final Section
Facade [Walton]: Swiss Yodelling Song / Polka / Waltz / Popular Song / Tango-Pasodoble / Tarantella Sevillana
A Month in the Country [music of Chopin]: Alla polacca
Monotones [Satie]: Gnossienne No. 1
Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op. 36 [Elgar]: IX. Nimrod / XIV. Finale
Tales of Beatrix Potter [John Lanchbery] Mrs Tiggy-Winkle's Laundry / The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck / The Mouse Waltz
Les Patineurs [music of Meyerbeer] Allegro monderato e pesante - Andante espressivo - Allegro conspirito
Pineapple Poll [music of Sullivan] Opening Dance
The Lady and the Fool [music of Verdi] Grand Adage
Disc 6
Ballet in America:
Serenade in C Op. 48 [Tchaikovsky}:
I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina (Andante non troppo - Allegro moderato)
II. Valse (Moderato: Tempo di valse)
Symphony in C:
IV. Final : Allegro vivace
Jewels: Emeralds [Faure]:
Shylock - incidental music Op.57:
Finale
Jewels: Diamonds [Tchaikovsky]:
Symphony No. 3 in D 'Polish' Op. 29:
II. Alla tedesca (Allegro moderato e semplice)
Ballet Imperial [Tchaikovsky]:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Op. 44:
III. Allegro con fuoco
Billy the Kid [Copland]:
Celebration (after Billy's capture)
Fancy Free [Bernstein]:
Opening Dance
Rodeo [Copland]:
Buckaroo Holiday
Hoe-Down
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story [Bernstein]:
II. Somewhere
Appalachian Spring [Copland]:
Doppio Movimento: Variations On A Shaker Hymn
On the Town - Three Dance Episodes [Bernstein]:
III. Times Square: 1944
The Stars and Stripes Forever [Sousa]
