Unusually, most of the music in this collection is either ballet music from an opera or ballet music that was not originally intended for dancing to but was adapted. Minkus’ Don Quixote is the exception.

These recordings were well reviewed: “I soon found my attention held with delight.” - Gramophone

Contents:
CD 1
Giuseppe Verdi
- Aida: Dance of the Moorish Slaves - March
Modest Mussorgsky
- Khovanshchina: Dance of the Persian Slaves
Camille Saint-Saens
- Samson et Delila: Bacchanale
Gioacchino Rossini
- Guillaume Tell: Passo a sei - Soldiers' Dance
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Anatole Fistoulari

Johann Strauss II  
Graduation Ball: Ballet Suite arr. Antal Dorati
- The Compere
- The Drummer
- La Sylphide and the Scotsman
- Impromptu Dance
- Dance-Step Competition
- Mathematics and Natural History Lessons
- Perpetuum Mobile
- Mazurka Flirtation
- Grand Finale
New Symphony Orchestra / Anatole Fistoulari

CD 2
Carl Maria von Weber
- Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance), Op.65 (orchestrated by Berlioz)
Leon Minkus
- Don Quixote: Pas de deux
New Symphony Orchestra / Anatole Fistoulari

Alexandre Charles Lecocq
Mam'zelle Angot (arr: Gordon Jacob)
- Overture
- Mazurka
- Tempo di marcia - Gavotte
- Allegro - Gavotte
- Allegro - Presto XII. Adagio
- Allegro moderato
Sir William Walton
Facade: Suites
- Fanfare - Scotch Rhapsody
- Valse
- Tango - Pasodoble
- Swiss Yodelling Song
- Country Dance
- Polka
- Noche Espagnole
- Popular Song
- Old Sir Faulk
- Tarantella sevillana
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Anatole Fistoulari