Great Stars of Russian Ballet Vol.1

A series of spectacular performances of ballet classics and modern works.

The first volume includes The Dying Swan (Plisetskaya), the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake (Plisetskaya & Kovtun), the Béjart Romeo and Juliet (Maximova & Vasiliev), Don Quixote (Timofeeva & Godunov), and much more.

Contents:
1. The Dying Swan
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns
Choreography: Mikhail Fokine
Dancer: Maya Plisetskaya / 1975

2. Mazurka
Music: Alexander Scriabin
Choreography: Kasyan Goleizovsky
Dancer: Ekaterina Maximova / 1972

3. Melody: Pas de deux
Music: C W Gluck
Choreography: Asaf Messerer
Dancers: Marina Kondratiyev and Maris Liepa / 1978

4. Le Bayadère: Pas de deux
Music: Ludwig (Léon) Minkus
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Dancers: Nadezhda Pavlova and Vyacheslav Gordeeev / 1979

5. Swan Lake: Act II - Pas de deux
Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Dancers: Maya Plisetskaya and Valery Kovtun / 1973

6. Swan Lake: Act III - Black Swan pas de deux
Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Dancers: Maya Plisetskaya and Valery Kovtun / 1973

7. Narcissus and Echo – Solo
Music: Nikolai Tcherepnin
Choreography: Kasyan Goleizovsky
Dancer: Vladimir Vasiliev / 1971

8. La Esmeralda: Pas de deux
Music: Cesare Pugni
Choreography: Agrippina Vaganova, after Petipa
Dancers: Tatyana Terekhova and Nikolay Kovmir / 1983

9. Don Quixote: Pas de deux
Music: Ludwig (Léon) Minkus
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky, after Petipa
Dancers: Nina Timofeeva and Alexander Godunov / 1976

10. Legend of Love: Pas de deux
Music: Arif Melikov
Choreography: Yury Grigorovich
Dancers: Lyudmila Semenyaka and Alexander Bogatirev / 1978

11. Romeo and Juliet: Pas de deux
Music: Hector Berlioz
Choreography: Maurice Béjart
Dancers: Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev / 1979

12. Giselle: Act II - Pas de deux
Music: Adolphe Adam
Choreography: Marius Petipa, after Coralli and Perrot
Dancers: Tatyana Tayakina and Valery Kovtun / 1977

13. Le Corsaire: Pas de deux
Music: Adolphe Adam
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Dancers: Margarita Drozdova and Vadim Teleev / 1975

Historic performances, 1971–1983.
95 minutes, colour, 4:3, All regions