Ballerina: The World's Favourite Ballet Music [2 CD set]

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Ballerina: The World's Favourite Ballet Music [2 CD set]
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev / Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste / Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Kent Nagano

[ Warner Classics / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 5 May 2010

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"For sheer enjoyment, though, I would definitely place it at the top of the pile. I would urge anyone who loves this music to make a point of hearing Nagano's outstanding reading." (Gramophone on Coppelia)

Tracks:

CD 1 74.40
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker - Suite, op.71a
01 Miniature Overture
02 Marche
03 Dance of the Sugar-plum Fairy
04 Trepak (Russian Dance)
05 Arabian Dance
06 Chinese Dance
07 Dance of the Reed-pip
08 Waltz of the Flowers
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra. Alexander Lazarev

Léo Delibes
Coppélia - Excerpts
Act I
09 No.1: Prélude & Mazurka
10 No.2: Valse lente
11 No.8: Czárdás (Hungarian Dance)
12 No.10: Finale
Act II
13 No.14: Music for the Automata
14 No.17: Drinking Song and Scena
15 No.18: Waltz of the Doll
Act III
16 No.23: March of the Bell
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon. Kent Nagano

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty - Suite, op.66a
17 Introduction: The Lilac Fairy
18 Adagio
19 Character Dance
20 Panorama
21 Waltz
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra. Alexander Lazarev

CD 2 74.34
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake - Suite, op.20
01 Scena
02 Waltz
03 Dance of the Swans
04 Scena
05 Hungarian Dance
06 Spanish Dance
07 Neapolitan Dance
08 Mazurka
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra. Alexander Lazarev

Christoph Willibald Gluck
09 Orfeo ed Euridice Ballo
London Philharmonic Orchestra. Raymond Leppard

Sergey Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet, op.64 - Excerpts
Act I, Scene 2
10 No.10: Juliet as a Young Girl
11 No.12: Masks
12 No.13: Dance of the Knights
13 No.16: Madrigal
14 No.19: Balcony Scene
Act II, Scene 1
15 No.26: The Nurse
Act III, Scene 3
16 No.48: Morning Serenade
17 No.49: Dance of the Girls with Lilies
Act IV (Epilogue)
18 No.52: Juliet's Death
Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Aram Khachaturian 1903-1978
19 Spartacus Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
20 Masquerade Waltz
21 Gayaneh Sabre Dance
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra > Alexander Lazarev