Ballet

Haenssler CLASSIC's Ballets Russes series is unrivaled for completeness and will include many works never before recorded. Each booklet includes historic details of the works performance and artwork from the original productions. World-renowned...

Giselle is based on a legend according to which the ghosts of unmarried girls return to seek revenge on the living. The Wilis had already been described in a story in Heinrich Heine's de l'Allemagne, although Heine received no credit for Giselle. The...

Following successes with the Firebird (Naxos 8571221) and Petrushka (Naxos 8571222) Stravinsky's ballet the Rite of Spring was the most ambitious and controversial result of his collaboration with Sergey Dyagilev's Ballet ruses the premiere performance...

Featuring Cunningham's interpretation of the final version of Schubert's Gastein Masterwork and also includes 3 new contemporary works for ballet. On-disc Enhanced Content includes study scores extended liner notes and more.

Drawn from the worldwide catalog holdings of Sony Classical, which includes both the Columbia/CBS and RCA Victor label imprints, the SONY Classical Originals, SONY Classical Masters Singles and Box Sets, SONY Opera and Opera House series offer an...

British Ballet Music / Various / Composer: Arthur Sullivan, Lord (Tyrwhitt) Berners, Sir William Walton, Sir Edward Elgar, Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert Irving, Louis Fr?maux, Sir Adrian Boult, Number of Discs: 2 / Length: 2 Hours 32 Mins...

Armenian composer Khachaturian (1903-1978) Ballet Music highlights recorded in 1993-1994 including Sabre Dance from Gayane, Spartacus & Masquerade performed by the St. Petersburg State Symphony Ochestra conducted by Andre Anichanov.1. Gayane: Sabre Dance...

Andr? Previn - Tchaikovsky: The Ballets (Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty)(6CD) Tchaikovsky's three sumptuous ballet scores are also three of his supreme masterpieces, as remarkable for their emotional content as for the beauty of their melodies...

2009 2X CD remaster. Enchanting, full of pathos and with it's serpentine waltzes & nightmarishly urgent clock sometimes unnerving, Prokofiev's Cinderella conjures up the enticing, ambiguous world of fairy tales. First performed in Moscow in 19745, the...

2009 2X CD reissue of the 1974 release. Sleeping Beauty, the most ambitious of Tchaikovsky's three ballet scores, was premiered in 1890 with choreography by Marius Petipa. It opens with an evocation of opposing magical forces, the ferocious wicked fairy...

2009 2X CD compilation. The Nutcracker, first seen in 1892, recounts the magical Christmas Eve of young Clara. Her adventures in the company of an enchanted prince inspired Tchaikovsky to such spellbinding numbers as Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy, the...

2004 release. Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) Ballet Suites Nos. 1-4 performed by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Yablonsky. Recorded in Studio 5, Russian State TV Radio Company Kultura, Moscow, May 26-June 1, 2003. Although the...