BEST BALLET 100

 

CD1 THE TCHAIKOVSKY BALLETS

1-8. Swan Lake

9-12. Sleeping Beauty

13-21. The Nutcracker

 

CD2 RUSSIAN BALLET

1. TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin, Polonaise

2. MINKUS Don Quixote

3. MINKUS La Bayadere

4-5. PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet

6-8. PROKOFIEV Cinderella

9. KHACHATURIAN Spartacus

10. SHOSTAKOVICH The Age of Gold

11-13. KHACHATURIAN Spartacus

 

CD3 FRENCH BALLETS

1-4. HEROLD La Fille mal gardee

5-6. ADAM Giselle

7. DRIGO Le Corsaire

8. GOUNOD Faust Ballet Music

9-11. DELIBES Coppelia

12. OFFENBACH Gaite Parisienne

13-15. DELIBES Sylvia

16-18. MESSAGER Les Deux Pigeons

19. RAVEL Bolero

 

CD4 DIACHILEV BALLETS

1. STRAVINSKY Petrushka

2-3. CHOPIN Les Sylphides

4. ROSSINI/RESPICHI La Boutique fantasque

5-7. POULENC Les Biches

8. DEBUSSY Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune

9. STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps

10. FALLA The Three-Cornered Hat

11. STRAVINSKY Apollo

12. RAVEL Daphnis et Chloe

13. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

14. SATIE Parade

15. STRAVINSKY L’Oiseau de feu

 

CD5 BALLET IN BRITAIN

1. GLAZUNOV Birthday Offering

2. FRANK Symphonic Variations

3-8. WALTON Façade

9. CHOPIN A Month in the Country

10. SATIE Gnossienne No. 1

11-12. ELGAR Enigma Variations

13-15. LANCHBERY Tales of Beatrix Potter

16. MEYERBEER Les Patineurs

17. SULLIVAN Pineapple Poll

18. VERDI The Lady and the Fool

 

CD6 BALLET IN AMERICA

1-2. TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade

3. BIZET Symphony in C

4. FAURE Shylock

5. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 3

6. TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 2

7. COPLAND Billy the Kid

8. BERNSTEIN Fancy Free

9-10. COPLAND Rodeo

11. BERNSTEIN West Side Story

12. COPLAND Appalachian Spring

13. BERNSTEIN On the Town

14. SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever!

 

Band of HM Royal Marines

Sir Adrian Boult

Richard Hickox

Robert Irving

Paavo Jarvi

John Lanchberry

Aram Khachaturian

Sir Charles Mackerras

Riccardo Muti

Seiji Osawa

Michel Plasson

Georges Pretre

Andre Previn

Sir Simon Rattle

Manuel Rosenthal

Sir Malcolm Sargent

Leonard Slatkin

Yuri Temirkanov

Barry Wordsworth

 

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