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The Most Beautiful Ballet Music (10 CD Set) | Documents 232865

The Most Beautiful Ballet Music (10 CD Set)

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Cat No: 232865

Barcode: 4011222328656

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 8th February 2010

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Contents:
CD 1
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (excerpts)
Act 1
No.5: Pas de deux
1. Tempo di Valse
2. Andante
3. Tempo di Valse
4. Allegro
5. Coda

Act 2
6. No.10 Scene: Moderato
7. No.11 Scene: Allegro moderato. Moderato. Allegro vivo
8. No.12 Scene: Allegro. Moderato assai quasi andante

No.13 Danses des cygnes
9. Tempo di Valse
10. Pas d'action
11. Allegro moderato
12. Tempo di Valse
13. Moderato assai
14. Coda
15. No.14 Scene

Act 3
16. No.15 Allegro giusto
17. No.17 Szene: Allegro
18. No.18 Szene: Allegro
19. No.21 Danse espagnole
20. No.22 Danse napolitaine
21. No.20 Danse hongraise
22. No.23 Mazurka
23. No.24 Szene / scene

NBC Symphony Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
Recorded in: 1954/55

CD 2
Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka – Burlesque in 4 Scenes
1. Bild 1: Der Jahrmarkt / Scene 1: The Shrovetide Fair
2. Bild 2: Bei Petruschka / Scene 2: Petrushka's Cell
3. Bild 3: Bei den Mohren / Scene 3: The Moor's Room
4. Bild 4: Jahrmarkt und Tod Petruschkas / Shrovetide Fair and Petrushka's Death
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet
Recorded in: 1949

Divertimento (Ballet Suite from The Fairy’s Kiss)
5. Sinfonia attacca
6. Danses suisses
7. Scherzo
8. Pas de deux
RIAS Symphony Orchestra / Ferenc Fricsay
Recorded in: 1957

CD 3
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé
Part 1
1. Introduction
2. Danse religieuse
3. Scène
4. Danse générale
5. Scène
6. Danse grotesque de Dorcon
7. Danse légère et mystérieuse de Daphnis
8. Scène
9. Nocturne
10. Danse lente et mystérieuse des Nymphes
11. Interlude

Part 2
12. Introduction
13. Danse guerrière
14. Danse suppliante de Chloé

Part 3
15. Introduction
16. Lever du jour
17. Pantomime
18. Danse générale – Bacchanale

Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française / Désiré-Èmile Inghelbrecht
Recorded in: 1953

CD 4  
Leonard Bernstein
1-9. Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Carl Davis
Recorded in: 1996

Facsimile – A  Choreographic Essay
10. I. Solo
11. II. Pas de deux
12. III. Pas de trois
13. IV. Coda
RCA Victor Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein
Recorded in: 1947

On The Town - Ballet Music
14. Lonely Town - Pas de deux
15. Times Square - Finale 1. Akt
16. Dream in the Subway  
17. Dance of the Great Lover
18. Dream Sequence - Conclusion
On The Town Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein
Recorded in: 1947

CD 5
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)
1. Introduction – Prologue
2. No.1: Marche
No.3: Pas de six
3. Intrada
4. Variation IV: Canari qui chante
5. Variation V: Violente

Act 1
6. No.6: Valse

No.8: Pas d'action
7. Adagio
8. Variation d'Aurore
9. Coda
10. No.9: Finale

Act 2
11. No.13: Farandole. Scène
12. No.17: Panorama

Act 3
13. No.22: Polacca

No.23: Pas de quatre
14. Intrada
15. Variation II: La Fée-Argent
16. Variation IV: La Fée-Diamant
17. Coda

No.25: Pas de quatre
18. Variation II: L'Oiseau bleu et la princesse Florine
19. Coda
20. No.26: Pas de caractère. Le Petit Chaperon rouge et le loup

No.28: Pas de deux. Aurore et Désiré
21. Adagio
22. Coda
23. No.30: Finale
24. Apothéose

London Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux
Recorded in: 1957

CD 6
Claude Debussy
La Boîte à joujoux (Orch. A. Caplet)
1. Premier tableau
2. Deuxième tableau
3. Troisième tablea
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française / André Cluytens
Recorded in: 1954

4. Jeux – poème dansé
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet
Recorded in: 1953

Igor Stravinsky
5. Jeux de cartes
Berliner Philharmoniker / Sergiu Celibidache
Recorded in: 1950

CD 7
Igor Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)
1. I. A Kiss Of The Earth
2. II. Das Opfer / The Exalted Sacrifice
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet
Recorded in: 1950

Camille Saint-Saëns
3. Danse macabre
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet
Recorded in: 1952

CD 8
George Frideric Handel
The Great Elopement Suite (arr. Beecham)
1. I. Pump Room
2. II. The Linleys
3. III. Hunting Dance
4. IV. Love Scene
5. V. The Weary Flunkies
6  VI. The Plot
7. VII. Sarabande
8. VIII. Hornpipe
9. IX. Intermezzo
10. X. Gigue
11. XI. Beau Nash
12. XII. Second Love Scene
London Philharmomic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham
Recorded in: 1945

Piotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky
Nutcracker Ballet Suite
13. I.  Ouverture miniature

II. Danses charactéristiques
14. Marche: Tempo di maricia
15. Danse de la Fée Dragée: Andante non troppo
16. Danse russe: Tempo di Trepak, molto vivace
17. Danse arabe: Allegretto
18. Danse chinoise: Allegro moderato
19. Danse des mirlitons: Moderato assai
20. III. Valse des fleurs: Tempo di Valse
London Philharmonic Orchestra /– Sergiu Celibidache
Recorded in: 1948

CD 9
Aram Khatchaturian
Gayane (excerpts)
1. Sabre Dance
2. Dance of the Rose Maidens
3. Lullaby
4. Lesghinka
5. Ayesha’s Dance
6. Gopak

Spartacus (excerpts)
1. Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
2. Dance of the Maidens and Victory of Spartacus
3. Scene and Dance with Crotalums
4. Variations of Aegina and Bacchanalia

Masquerade (excerpts)
1. Romance
2. Nocturne
3. Waltz

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuri Simonov
Recorded in: 1994

CD 10
Leo Délibes
Sylvia – Ballet Suite
1. Prelude et Les Chasseresses
2. Intermezzo et Valse Lente
3. Pizzicati
4. Cortége de Bacchus

Le Roi s’amuse (excerpts)
5. Gaillarde
6. Pavane
7. Madrigal
8. Passepied

Coppélia (excerpts)
9. Introduction and Mazurka
10. Festival of the Clocks and Dance of the Hours
11. Notturno
12. Music of the Dolls and Waltz
13. Czardas

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Carl Davis
Recorded in: 1996

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