10 CD box set that includes 10 original albums of the greatest ballet music ever released. Including ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘The Nutcracker’ by Tchaikovsky, ‘Firebird’, ‘Pulcinella’ and ‘Petrushka’ by Strawinsky, de Falla’s ‘Threecornered Hat’, ‘Bolero’ by Ravel, and popular ballets from operas, such as ‘Polovtsian Dances’, ‘Dance of the Hours’ and ‘Sabre Dance’, ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits”, Offenbach’s “Can-Can” and many more.

Conducted by Lorin Maazel, Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti, Ernest Ansermet, Pierre Monteux, Antal Dorati, Leopold Stokowski and others.

Artists

Bernard Zighera (piano), University of Minnesota Chamber Singers

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Chœurs et Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Symphoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Radio-Symphonique de Paris, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Holywood Bowl Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moskow, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ernest Ansermet, Igor Markevitch, Aram Khachaturian, Robert Stolz, René Leibowitz, Lorin Maazel, Leopold Stokowski, Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti, Charles Münch, Rudolf Kempe, Pierre Monteux, Felix Slatkin, Boris Khaikin, Antal Dorati, Heinz Geese

Works Adam: Giselle Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances Delibes: Coppelia Falla: El sombrero de tres picos: Dance of the Neighbors (Seguidillas) Falla: El sombrero de tres picos: Danza del molinero (farruca) Falla: El sombrero de tres picos: Fandango Falla: Ritual Fire Dance (from El amor brujo) Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo ed Euridice) Gounod: Faust - Ballet Music Gounod: Faust - Waltz, Act II Khachaturian: Saber Dance from Gayane Mussorgsky: Dance of the Persian Slaves (from Khovanshchina) Offenbach: Can-Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld) Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours (from La Gioconda) Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Rossini: bolero Rossini: La Boutique fantasque Schubert: Rosamunde, D797: Ballet Music No. 2nd Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version) Stravinsky: Pulcinella Stravinsky: The Firebird Tchaikovsky: Polonaise (from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24) Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (excerpts) Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20th Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24th