Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (complete ballet)

"Dutoit offers the original score virtually complete, as Tchaikovsky conceived it. Into it he poured some of his finest melodic inspiration and colouristic orchestral skill, to provide just over two and a half hours of consistently appealing music in which there is not a single dull bar. The Montreal Symphony play it beautifully, rising to the plot's histrionic moments and the final apotheosis, when the great swan melody achieves its transformation into an exultant B major climax, is gloriously expansive."
(Penguin Guide *** Three Stars)