[ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 28 March 2011
This 3 CD set contains an unrivalled collection of 50 favourite Ballet Classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. Includes excerpts from 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Swan Lake', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Coppelia' & 'Spartacus'.
CD 1
SWAN LAKE
1. No.10: Scene (Moderato)
2. Act I - 2. Waltz (Tempo di valse)
3. 13. Dances of the Swans - IV. Dance of the Cygnets (Allegro moderato)
4. 13. Dances of the Swans - V. Andante - Andante non troppo - Allegro (Christopher Warren-Green, violin; Robert Truman, cello)
5. Act III - 20. Hungarian Dance: Csárdás (Moderato assai - Allegro moderato - Vivace)
6. Act III - 21. Spanish Dance (Allegro non troppo: tempo di bolero)
7. Act III - 22. Neapolitan Dance (Allegro moderato - Andantino quasi moderato)
8. Act III - 23. Mazurka
SLEEPING BEAUTY
9. Introduction (Allegro vivo - Andantino)
10. 8. Pas d'action: - Rose Adagio (Andante - Adagio maestoso)
11. Scene 1: 'The Vision' - 17. Panorama (Andantino)
12. Scene 1: 'The Vision' - 6. Waltz (Allegro: Tempo di valse)
NUTCRACKER
13. Act 1 - Overture.
14. Scene 1 - March
15. Divertissement - Variation 2: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy - Coda [to Pas de deux]
16. Divertissement - Trepak (Russian Dance)
17. Divertissement - Chocolate (Spanish Dance)
18. Divertissement - Coffee (Arab Dance)
19. Divertissement - Tea (Chinese Dance)
20. Divertissement - Dance of the Reed Flutes
21. Divertissement - Waltz of the Flowers
(all conducted by John Lanchbery)
CD 2
1. Eugene Onegin - Polonaise (Act III)
State Academic Mariinsky Theatre Choir
2. Don Quixote - Pas de Deux (Act III)
Robert Irving
3. Don Quixote - The Kingdom of the Shades: Conclusion (from La Bayadere)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
4. Romeo and Juliet - Dance of the Knights
5. Romeo and Juliet - Balcony Scene (Act1) (André Previn)
6. Cinderella: Act I - Pas de châle (Allegretto)
7. Cinderella - Faireis: Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter (Act 1)
8. Act II - Pas de deux: The Prince and Cinderella (Adagio)
(Conducted by André Previn)
9. Khachaturian: Spartacus - Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
10. Shostakovich: The Age Of Gold Suite, Op. 22 - Polka
(conducted Robert Irving)
11. Gayaneh - Suite from the Ballet - Sabre Dance
12. Gayaneh - Suite from the Ballet - Lezghinka
(conducted by Yuri Temirkanov)
CD 3
1. La Fille mal gardèe - Introduction - Dance of the Cock and Hens (Act I)
2. La Fille mal gardèe Act II - 29. Pas de deux
3. La Fille mal gardèe Act II - 30. Finale
(conducted by Barry Wordsworth)
4. Giselle - Valse (Act I)
5. Giselle - Pas de deux (Act II)
(conducted by Robert Irving)
6. Le Corsaire - Pas de deux et Variations (interpolation for 1899 revival)
(conducted by Terence Kern)
7. Faust Ballet Music - Les nubiennes - Variation du miroir - Danse de Phrynè
8. Coppélia - Prelude & Mazurka
9. Coppélia - Waltz
10. Coppélia - Czárdás
(New Philharmonia Orchestra)
11. Gaîté Parisienne - Overture (La Vie Parisienne)
(conducted by Manuel Rosenthal)
12. Sylvia (Suite) - Les Chasseresses
13. Sylvia (Suite) - Intermezzo & Valse lente
14. Sylvia (Suite) - Pizzicati
15. Act I (An attic studio in Paris) - Dance of the Two Pigeons (Allegretto)
16. Act I (An attic studio in Paris) - Dance of the Gypsies (Pesante alla marcia)
17. Scene 1 (A gypsy encampment) - Hungarian Dance (Allegretto pesante)