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CDs: CDs - Ballets



Cover imageAgon, Apollo, Orpheus. London Symphony Orchestra, etc./Robert Craft.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published: 2005

A great bargain: Stravinsky's three Greek ballets in fine performances (the conductor was for many years Stravinsky's... [full description]

CD [3993-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageAladdin (complete ballet). Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra/Carl Davis. [2 CD set.]

Author: Davis, Carl

Published: 2006

Carl Davis's three-act ballet, commissioned by Scottish Ballet and first perofrmed by them in 2000.

CD [4837-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageAlice in Wonderland, complete ballet. City of Prague Symphony Orchestra/Carl Davis.

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich & Carl Davis

Published: 2009

Carl Davis's selections of Tchaikovsky, orchestrated by David Matthews, for Derek Deane's ballet for English National... [full description]

CD [5575-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageAppalachian Spring (suite), Clarinet Concerto, Quiet City, Three Latin-American Sketches. Laura Arden, Nashville Chamber Orchestra/Paul Gambill.

Author: Copland, Aaron

Published: 2002

Appalachian Spring is a twenty-five minute orchestral suite from Martha Graham's famous dance piece; the Clarinet... [full description]

CD [2488-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Appalachian Spring, suite; Billy the Kid, complete ballet. London Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati.

Author: Copland, Aaron

Published:

CD [2930-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageAubade, Sinfonietta; Hahn: Le Bal de Beatrice d'Este; etc. New London Orchestra/Corp.

Author: Poulenc, Francis

Published: 1989

Three charming twentieth-century French scores. Aubade was a Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Noailles commission for... [full description]

CD [1458-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageBacchus et Ariane, complete ballet. Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Stephane Deneve.

Author: Roussel, Albert

Published: 2007

Roussel's most successful ballet, written for Serge Lifar's Paris Opera Ballet, and premiered in 1931. The CD also... [full description]

CD [5065-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Bacchus et Ariane, Le Festin de l'Araignee, complete ballets. BBC Philharmonic/Tortelier.

Author: Roussel, Albert

Published:

Bacchus was choreographed by Serge Lifar for himself and Spessivtseva in 1931; Le Festin (The Spider's... [full description]

CD [3206-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Bacchus et Ariane, Le Festin de l'Araignee, complete ballets. Orchestre Nationale de France/George Pretre.

Author: Roussel, Albert

Published:

CD [0003-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageBallet music from Jerusalem and Il trovatore. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Edward Downes.

Author: Verdi, Giuseppe

Published: 1998

CD [2072-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageBallet suites 1-5. Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi. [2 CDs].

Author: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Published:

CD [3215-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageBallet Suites nos. 1 - 4. Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Dmitry Yablonsky.

Author: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Published: 2004

Although the symphonies, string quartets, and concertos represent the core of his achievements, Shostakovich entered... [full description]

CD [4378-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


The ballets - The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, complete ballets. National Philharmonic Orchestra/Bonynge. [6 CD set].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 1999

CD [2004-CD] £ 36.99 Add to order


The ballets - The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake. Philharmonia Orchestra/John Lanchbery. [6 CD set].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 1982, 2002

The Nutcracker includes the Jig from act II (its only recording); Swan Lake includes the supplementary... [full description]

CD [3705-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order


La Bayadere (complete ballet). English Chamber Orchestra/Bonynge. [2 CDs].

Author: Minkus, Ludwig

Published: 1994

A fine performance and recording of the version of Minkus's score orchestrated by John Lanchbery for Natalia Makarova's... [full description]

CD [2650-CD] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa Bayadere, the Kingdom of the Shades; Paquita (complete Minkus section). Sofia National Opera Orchestra/Boris Spassov.

Author: Minkus, Ludwig

Published:

The most famous section of La Bayadère, coupled with the most extended recording of Minkus' music for... [full description]

CD [3167-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageBelkis, Queen of Sheba. Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon.

Author: Respighi, Ottorino

Published: 1985

A suite, arranged by the composer, from his music to Massine's 1932 ballet for La Scala, Milan, an enormous success at... [full description]

CD [0484-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageBenzin; Archaeopteryx; Til Apollon. Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Owain Arwel Hughes.

Author: Riisager, Knudage

Published: 2008

Riisager's 1930 ballet, with choreography by Elna Jørgen-Jensen to a libretto by the Danish humorist Robert... [full description]

CD [5381-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes Biches (complete ballet, with chorus), etc. Philharmonia Orchestra/Pretre, etc. [2 CD set.]

Author: Poulenc, Francis

Published: 1990

A generously filled mid-price CD set. As well as the complete Les Biches, the CDs include the Concert Champetre, the... [full description]

CD [1674-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes Biches (suite); Dutilleux: Le Loup (excerpts); Milhaud: La Creation du monde. Paris Conservatoire Orchestra/George Pretre.

Author: Poulenc, Francis

Published: 1991

CD [2468-CD] £ 10.99 Add to order


Billy the Kid (suite); Gould: Fall River Legend (suite); Bernstein: Facsimile. Ballet Theatre Orchestra/Joseph Levine.

Author: Copland, Aaron

Published: 1953, 1997

Classic performances from the 1950s, recorded in mono. (The sleeve is incorrect in stating that the Copland and Gould... [full description]

CD [0897-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order


Bolero, Ma mere l'oye (suite), Valses nobles et sentimentales, Daphnis et Chloe (suite no. 1). CSR Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Jeans.

Author: Ravel, Maurice

Published: 1989

CD [0851-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


The Bolt (complete ballet). Royal Stockholm Philharmonic/Rozdhestvensky. [2 CDs].

Author: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Published:

Lopukhov's 1931 Maryinsky ballet tells of sabotage in a factory workshop. It was withdrawn after only one performance,... [full description]

CD [3216-CD] £ 25.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Bolt (suite), Jazz Suites 1 & 2, Tahiti Trot. Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Dmitry Yablonsky.

Author: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Published: 2002

The lighter side of Shostakovich. The suite from The Bolt concentrates on the more crowd-pleasing numbers, while the... [full description]

CD [1478-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Bronze Horseman, suite. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Downes.

Author: Gliere, Reinhold

Published:

Forty-five minutes of music from the 1949 Bolshoi Ballet, based on Pushkin, arranged by the composer into a symphonic... [full description]

CD [3145-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Bronze Horseman, suite. Ural Philhramonic Orchestra/Dmitry Liss.

Author: Gliere, Reinhold

Published: 1995

Gliere's own concert suite from his 1949 ballet, coupled with the symphonic poem The Zaporzhy Cossacks.

CD [0614-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageBugaku. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Takuo Yuasa.

Author: Mayuzumi, Toshiro

Published: 2006

The music for Balanchine's 1963 piece of erotic japanoiserie. The CD also includes other works by the same... [full description]

CD [4718-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cakewalk; Piston: The Incredible Flutist. Louisville Orchestra/Endo, etc.

Author: Gottschalk, Louis Moreau

Published: 1989

Two lightweight and tuneful twentieth-century American ballet scores. Cakewalk was choreographed for New York... [full description]

CD [1975-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Car Man.

Author: Davies, Terry & Georges Bizet

Published: 2001

The complete score of Matthew Bourne's 'auto-erotic thriller'. Terry Davies' score combines his own original... [full description]

CD [3825-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Carmen suite. Ukranian State Symphony/Kuchar.

Author: Shchedrin, Rodion

Published:

Shchedrin's arrangement, for strings and percussion, of popular themes from Bizet's opera.

CD [3212-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageLe Carnaval d'Aix, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Le Carnaval de Londres, etc. New London Orchestra/Corp.

Author: Milhaud, Darius

Published:

Popular French ballet music of the 1920s and 1930s.

CD [3166-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Caroline Mathilde, suite. BBC Philharmonic/Maxwell-Davies.

Author: Maxwell-Davies, Peter

Published:

A budget-price sampler CD, supplied in minimal packaging and running for just 25 minutes.

CD [3162-CD] £ 4.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Chairman Dances; Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Tromba Lontana; Harmonielehre. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle.

Author: Adams, John

Published:

CD [1120-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageCheckmate, complete ballet; Melee Fantasque. Royal Scottish National Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Bliss, Sir Arthur

Published: 2005

Another great bargain from Naxos: a complete recording of Ninette de Valois' 1937 ballet, coupled with an early work... [full description]

CD [1637-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageChout (The Buffoon). WDR Sinfonieorchestra Koln/Michail Jurowski.

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 2003

The complete score of Prokofiev's 1921 Diaghilev comedy ballet, choreographed jointly by Slavinsky and Larionov: a... [full description]

CD [3917-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cinderella, complete ballet. London Symphony Orchestra/Previn. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

A fine performance and recording of the complete score at bargain price.

CD [2651-CD] £ 7.99 Add to order


Cinderella, complete ballet. Moscow Radio Orchestra/Gennadi Rozdhestvensky. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

A classic performance, but the recording, dating from 1966, is not quite up to the best of today's.

CD [3193-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Complete orchestral works vol. 1. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/Giordano Bellincampi.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published:

16 tracks, including Salut for August Bournonville, Queen Louise Waltz, Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop, Britta Polka,... [full description]

CD [0745-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageComplete orchestral works vol. 10. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/David Riddell.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published: 2004

This volume of Marco Polo's ongoing series of compositions by Hans Christian Lumbye is of particular interest for its... [full description]

CD [4376-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageComplete orchestral works vol. 11. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/David Riddell.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published: 2005

Fourteen pieces, including the Finale Galop from Napoli, Eugénie Waltz, Polka Militaire, Mjølner... [full description]

CD [4543-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Complete orchestral works vol. 2. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/Giordano Bellincampi.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published:

16 tracks, including Amanda Waltz, The Dream after the Ball, Camilla Polka, Victoria Polka, Salute to Capri, Wally... [full description]

CD [3796-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageComplete orchestral works vol. 3. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/Giordano Bellincampi.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published:

14 tracks, including Amager Polka, Festival Polonaise, Concert Polka, Ornithobolaia Galop, Carnical Joys, Torchlight... [full description]

CD [3797-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Complete orchestral works vol. 4. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/Giordano Bellincampi.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published:

14 tracks, including Happy New Year, Adolphine Polka, Dagmar Waltz, Laura Polka, Alice Polka, La Constance... [full description]

CD [3798-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Complete orchestral works vol. 5. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/Tamas Veto.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published:

14 tracks, including In the Dusk, The Sleigh Ride, Caroline Polka Mazurka, Hesperus Waltz, Telegraph Galop, Salute... [full description]

CD [3799-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Complete orchestral works vol. 6. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/Tamas Veto.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published: 2002

14 tracks, including Den 5 Juni March, Den lille Prins Christian Carls Vals, Krigerens Drom Fantasi, Hostblomsten... [full description]

CD [3896-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageComplete orchestral works vol. 7. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/David Riddell.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published: 2003

12 tracks, including Juliette Galop, Mac Mahon March, Mist Pictures, Diana Galop, La Polonaise, Souvenir de Jenny Lind,... [full description]

CD [3897-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageComplete orchestral works vol. 8. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/David Riddell.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published: 2003

14 tracks, including Velkomsthilsen March, Dobler's Zauber Galop, Tivoli Bazar Tsching-Tsching Polka, Les Zouaves... [full description]

CD [0396-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageComplete orchestral works vol. 9. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra/David Riddell.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published: 2004

14 tracks, including Prinsen af Wales Galop, Alexandra Vals, Petersborg Champagne Galop, Rosalie Polka, Sylphide Vals,... [full description]

CD [4375-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Coppelia, complete ballet, La Source, suites. Slovak Radio Symphony/Mogrelia. [2 CDs].

Author: Delibes, Leo

Published:

CD [3126-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Coppelia, complete ballet; Massenet: Le Carillon. Suisse Romande/Bonynge. [2 CDs].

Author: Delibes, Leo

Published:

A fine recording and performance, generously coupled with a little-known one act Massenet ballet.

CD [3125-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageCoppelia, Sylvia; Delibes-Minkus: La Source, complete ballets. National Philharmonic, etc./Bonynge. [4 CDs].

Author: Delibes, Leo

Published: 1999

Delibes' complete ballet scores. The recording also includes the Minkus section of La Source.

CD [1867-CD] £ 23.99 Add to order


Cover imageCorroboree, complete ballet. New Zeland Symphony Orchestra/James Judd.

Author: Antill, John

Published: 2008

The first complete recording of a classic Australian ballet, based on events the composer had witnessed at a genuine... [full description]

CD [5419-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa Creation du monde, Le Boeuf sur le toit, L'Homme et son desir. Orchestre National de Lille-Region Nord/Jean-Claude Casadesus.

Author: Milhaud, Darius

Published: 2005

Three of Milhaud's major ballet scores: the jazzy Création du monde and Le Boeuf sur le toit and... [full description]

CD [3755-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa Creation du monde, Le Boeuf sur le toit; Saudades do Brasil (excerpts). Orchestre National de France/Leonard Bernstein.

Author: Milhaud, Darius

Published:

CD [3947-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa Creation du monde, Scaramouche, Saudades do Brasil, Suite provencale, Le Boeuf sur le toit. Concert Arts Orchestra, Orchestre du Theatre des Champs-Elysees/Darius Milhaud.

Author: Milhaud, Darius

Published:

Important historical recordings, all involving the composer as performer or conductor. The first two items were... [full description]

CD [3573-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cydalise et le chevre-pied. Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra/David Shallon.

Author: Pierne, Gabriel

Published: 2000

A charming 1923 score for a Leo Staats ballet for the Paris Opera Ballet.

CD [0910-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cyrano, Symphonic Suite. Daniel Mesguich (speaker), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra/Constant.

Author: Constant, Marius

Published: 2000

A suite arranged from Roland Petit's 1959 ballet. The seven scenes from the ballet are interspersed with readings, in... [full description]

CD [2981-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageCyrano: David Bintley's production for Birmingham Royal Ballet. Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Paul Murphy. [2 CD set.]

Author: Davis, Carl

Published: 2009

The complete score of David Bintley's revised version of Cyrano, first performed in 2007.

CD [5709-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order


Dance Suite, Masquerade Suite, Spartacus Suite no. 4. St. Petersburg State Symphony/Anichanov.

Author: Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich

Published: 1996

CD [0338-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Dances - English, Scottish, Cornish, Irish, Welsh - Queensland Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Penny

Author: Arnold, Sir Malcolm

Published:

Very good performances and a great bargain. However, the more expensive version conducted by Bryden Thomson includes... [full description]

CD [3261-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageDante Sonata, The Rio Grande, excerpts from Apparitions and Horoscope. Philharmonia Orchestra, etc./Constant Lambert.

Author: Lambert, Constant

Published: 2000

A treasure trove of historical recordings from the 1940s, the composer conducting his own music. The sound is good for... [full description]

CD [0683-CD] £ 10.99 Add to order


Cover imageDaphis et Chloe, complete ballet. MDR Rundfunkchor, Orchestre National de Lyon.

Author: Ravel, Maurice

Published: 2009

CD [5654-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageDaphnis and Chloe (complete ballet), Bolero. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle.

Author: Ravel, Maurice

Published:

CD [0840-CD] £ 4.99 Add to order


Cover imageDaphnis et Chloe, complete ballet. Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bordeaux Opera Chorus/Laurent Petitgirard.

Author: Ravel, Maurice

Published: 2006

Daphnis et Chloé, generally regarded as Ravel's masterpiece, was originally commissioned by Serge... [full description]

CD [4868-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes Deux Pigeons (complete ballet); Isoline (excerpts); Herold: La Fille mal gardee (excerpts). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/John Lanchbery, etc. [2 CD set.]

Author: Messager, Andre

Published: 2004

A welcome reissue, at a very reasonable price, of recordings mostly from the 1980s, still sounding very well. The... [full description]

CD [4434-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes Deux Pigeons (excerpts); Delibes: Excerpts from Coppelia and Sylvia; Gounod: Ballet music from Faust. Royal Opera House Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras.

Author: Messager, Andre

Published:

CD [3949-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageDon Quixote (complete ballet, Bolshoi version). Sofia National Opera Orchestra/Boris Spassov. [2 CDs].

Author: Minkus, Ludwig

Published:

CD [3010-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order


Cover imageDon Quixote, complete ballet. Sofia National Opera Orchestra/Nayden Todorov. [2 CDs.]

Author: Minkus, Ludwig

Published: 2003

A great bargain: Minkus's complete score (Bolshoi version) on two CDs for less than ten pounds.

CD [3396-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Dracula, excerpts. Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra/Pryce-Jones.

Author: Feeney, Philip

Published: 1996

Music from Christoper Gable and Michael Barrett-Pink's production for Northern Ballet Theatre.

CD [2860-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageDybbuk. New York City Ballet Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein.

Author: Bernstein, Leonard

Published: 1974, 1997

A tale from Jewish folkore of a lost spirit that enters the body of a living person in order to possess it;... [full description]

CD [1796-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageDybbuk; Fancy Free (complete ballets). Nashville Symphony/Andrew Mogrelia.

Author: Bernstein, Leonard

Published: 2006

The ballet Dybbuk was Bernstein's fourth and final collaboration with the choreographer Jerome Robbins, with a... [full description]

CD [4867-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Edward II (complete ballet). Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Wordsworth. [2 CDs].

Author: McCabe, John

Published: 2000

The complete score of David Bintley's dramatic ballet.

CD [0035-CD] £ 28.99 Add to order


El Amor Brujo (Love the Magician), El Retablo de Maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show). I Cameristi/Dini-Ciacci.

Author: Falla, Manuel de

Published: 1996

CD [1827-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageElectra, Rinaldo and Armida, Suites from Homage to the Queen and Sweeney Todd. BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba.

Author: Arnold, Sir Malcolm

Published: 2009

The first recording of the notorious Robert Helpmann ballet Electra, coupled with Ashton's Rinaldo and... [full description]

CD [5730-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageEnemy in the Figure; Of Any If And; Pas./Parts. Thom Willems.

Author: Willems, Thom

Published: 2003

Music for three ballets by William Forsythe for Ballett Frankfurt.

CD [0358-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageEnigma Variations, In The South, Coronation March. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/George Hurst.

Author: Elgar, Edward

Published: 1997

Music for Sir Frederick Ashton's 1968 masterpiece. (Ashton's version uses Elgar's original, slightly shorter version of... [full description]

CD [0197-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Etudes, Qarrtsiluni, etc. Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rozdhestvensky.

Author: Riisager, Knudage & Carl Czerny

Published:

An arrangement of Czerny piano studies for Harald Lander's famous display ballet. This is the only currently available... [full description]

CD [3394-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Fairy's Kiss (complete ballet). Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

Le Baiser de la Fee - Stravinsky's arrangements of pieces by Tchaikovsky for Nijinska's 1928 ballet for Ida Rubinstein.... [full description]

CD [3221-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Fall River Legend (complete ballet). National Philharmonic Orchestra/Milton Rosenstock.

Author: Gould, Morton

Published: 1990

The only complete recording of Agnes de Mille's ballet. The disc also includes a 26-minute conversation between the... [full description]

CD [3146-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageFall River Legend (complete ballet); Jekyll and Hyde Variations. James F Neal (narrator), Nashville Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Schermerhorn.

Author: Gould, Morton

Published: 2005

The complete score, including narration, of Agnes de Mille's 1948 classic ballet, based on the story of Lizzie Borden,... [full description]

CD [4571-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Fall River legend (excerpts) etc. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Sedares.

Author: Gould, Morton

Published: 1996

'Morton Gould's America': excerpts from Fall River Legend, and two non-ballet scores: Steven Foster Gallery and Of Time... [full description]

CD [2069-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Far from the madding crowd, excerpts. Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Murphy.

Author: Reade, Paul

Published: 1998

A commissioned scored for David Bintley's ballet for the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

CD [0317-CD] £ 11.99 Add to order


Farah, musiques pour Scheherazade. Musique Savant Persane.

Published: 1995

Traditional Iranian music, used in Maurice Bejart's 1973 ballet.

CD [0756-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageFearful Symmetries, The Chairman Dances. Symphony Orchestra of Norrlands Opera/Kristjan Jarvi.

Author: Adams, John

Published:

Fearful Symmetries has been choreographed by Ashley Page, Peter Martins, Doug Varone, and Christopher d'Amboise;... [full description]

CD [1020-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageFestival at Tivoli. Danish National Radio Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published:

The 'Finale Galops' from Napoli and The Lifeguards at Amager are included in this delightful disc of... [full description]

CD [3148-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


La Fille mal Gardee - excerpts. The Royal Opera House Orchestra/John Lanchbery.

Author: Herold, Ferdinand

Published:

The first recording of John Lanchbery's brilliant adaptation of Herold's score for Frederick Ashton's much-loved... [full description]

CD [2862-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa Filleule des Fees (complete ballet). Queensland Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Mogrelia. [2 CDs].

Author: Adam, Adolphe

Published: 2002

A complete recording (the first ever) of Adam's delightful 1849 ballet, choreographed by Jules Perrot for himself,... [full description]

CD [2259-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Firebird, Orpheus, Petrushka (1947 version), The Rite of Spring (complete ballets). Concertgebouw Orchestra/Colin Davis.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

CD [1535-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Firebird, Petrushka. Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Craft.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published: 2005

The first recording of The Firebird in its complete original version, including two on stage valveless trumpets.... [full description]

CD [3347-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Firebird, Petrushka. Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Craft.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published: 2005

The first recording of The Firebird in its complete original version, including two on stage valveless trumpets.... [full description]

CD [4456-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageFiskarena (The Fishermen). Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Petter Sundkvist.

Author: Kraus, Joseph Martin

Published: 2007

Although little known today, Joseph Martin Kraus was one of the most gifted and unusual composers of the eighteenth... [full description]

CD [5186-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


A Folk Tale (Et folkesagn). Danish Radio Sinfonietta/Damgaard. [2 CDs]

Author: Gade, Niels Wilhelm & Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann

Published:

CD [3373-CD] £ 29.99 Add to order


The Four Temperaments, etc. Shelley, BBC Philharmonic/Tortelier.

Author: Hindemith, Paul

Published: 1992

Hindemith's music for the Balanchine ballet.

CD [2498-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageFrankie and Johnny, Willie the Weeper. Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Richard Rosenberg.

Author: Moross, Jerome

Published: 2002

'Frankie and Johnny' was commissioned by Ruth Page and choreographed by Bentley Stone (although Page choreographed most... [full description]

CD [3155-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Gaite Parisienne (complete ballet), Offenbachiana. Monte-Carlo Philharmonic/Rosenthal.

Author: Offenbach, Jacques

Published: 1999

CD [0602-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Gayaneh (excerpts). St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra/Anichanov.

Author: Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich

Published:

A generous selection from the ballet, at super-bargain price.

CD [3154-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Giselle (slightly cut). Royal Opera House Orchestra/Mark Ermler.

Author: Adam, Adolphe

Published: 1993

CD [1887-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageGiselle, complete ballet. Royal Opera House Orchestra/Bonynge [2 CDs].

Author: Adam, Adolphe

Published:

The complete ballet, in Adam's original scoring, but including the usual interpolations.

CD [3099-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageGiselle, complete ballet. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mogrelia.

Author: Adam, Adolphe

Published: 1995

CD [0180-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


The Golden Age (complete ballet). Royal Stockholm Philharmonic/Rozhdestvensky. [2 CDs].

Author: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Published:

Shostakovich's original score for the 1930 Kirov production, with choreography by Vainonen and others. Grigorovich's... [full description]

CD [3217-CD] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Great Detective; The Angels. BBC Concert Orchestra/Martin Yates.

Author: Arnell, Richard

Published: 2008

Complete recordings (the first) of two ballets from the 1950s: Margaret Dale's comedy take on Sherlock Holmes, and John... [full description]

CD [5473-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Grohg; Hear ye! Hear ye! Cleveland Orchestra, London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen.

Author: Copland, Aaron

Published: 1994

Two early Copland ballets: Grohg, inspired by German Expressionist films, was written in 1924, never staged, and not... [full description]

CD [0893-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageHigh Yellow. Spike Hughes and His Orchestra.

Author: Hughes, Spike

Published:

Recordings transferred from 78 rpm records of the music for the Frederick Ashton/Buddy Bradley ballet High... [full description]

CD [4615-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Cover imageHobson's Choice (excerpts). Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Barry Wordsworth.

Author: Reade, Paul

Published:

Music from David Bintley's popular ballet. [This CD has officially been deleted: we have managed to obtain remaindered... [full description]

CD [3203-CD] £ 10.99 Add to order


Cover imageHoroscope, excerpts; Bliss: Checkmate, excerpts; Walton: Facade, suite. English Northern Philharmonic/Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Lambert, Constant

Published:

Excerpts from three key British ballets of the 1930s and 1940s. The Horoscope excerpts are Dance for the... [full description]

CD [3118-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


The Hunchback of Notre Dame, exerpts. Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra/Pryce-Jones.

Author: Feeney, Philip

Published: 1998

Music from Northern Ballet Theatre's production.

CD [0320-CD] £ 11.99 Add to order


Cover imageI Vespri Siciliani: The Four Seasons (Ballet Music). CSR Symphony Orchestra/Ondrej Lenard.

Author: Verdi, Giuseppe

Published:

The CD also includes orchestral excerpts from La Forza del Destino, Rigoletto, Aida and La Traviata..

CD [5647-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageIn the Middle Somewhat Elevated; The Second Detail; The Loss of Small Detail. Thom Willems. [2 CD set].

Author: Willems, Thom

Published: 2002

Electronic scores for three William Forsythe ballets.

CD [2068-CD] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageJeu de cartes, Orpheus, L'Histoire du soldat suite. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

CD [3983-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageJeux, Images. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle.

Author: Debussy, Claude

Published:

CD [0075-CD] £ 4.99 Add to order


Cover imageJeux, Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune, Images, Nocturnes, La Mer, etc. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink, Eduard van Beinum. [2 CD set.]

Author: Debussy, Claude

Published:

CD [1672-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageJeux, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La Mer, Iberia. London Philharmonic Orchestra/Serge Baudo.

Author: Debussy, Claude

Published:

CD [0920-CD] £ 4.99 Add to order


Job, a masque for dancing. English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Published: 1997

Music for the 1931 Ninette de Valois ballet.

CD [0848-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageJob, complete ballet. London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult.

Author: Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Published:

This recording of Dame Ninette de Valois' 1931 ballet for the Camargo Society was made in the late 1950s, but the sound... [full description]

CD [5530-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa Jolie Fille de Gand, complete ballet. Queensland Symphony Orchestra/Mogrelia.

Author: Adam, Adolphe

Published: 2000

CD [2999-CD] £ 17.99 Add to order


Cover imageLackschmi, or an Indian Love Tale, complete ballet. Queensland Symphony Orchestra/Werner Andreas Albert.

Author: Nielsen, Ludolf

Published: 2006

Although unrelated to his namesake, the more famous Carl Nielsen, Ludolf Nielsen wrote in a similarly tonal idiom to... [full description]

CD [4698-CD] £ 11.99 Add to order


The Lady with the Lapdog. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev.

Author: Shchedrin, Rodion

Published: 1997

CD [1174-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageLater Ballets - Jeu de cartes, Danses concertantes, Scenes de Ballet, Variations, Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (Rubies, from Jewels). Orchestra of St. Lukes, etc./Robert Craft.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published: 2007

A useful and generously filled disc, conducted by Stravinsky's acolyte and amanuensis, Robert Craft. The pianist in... [full description]

CD [5270-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


La Licorne (complete ballet), Diane de Poitiers (suites). Moscow Symphony Orchestra/Adriano.

Author: Ibert, Jacques

Published: 1996

La Licorne (The Unicorn) was commissioned by the American choreographer Ruth Page for the Chicago Opera Ballet in 1954.... [full description]

CD [3151-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


The Limpid Stream (excerpts). Royal Stockholm Philharmonic/Rozhdestvensky.

Author: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Published:

A 1935 socialist realist ballet telling of a meeting between a team of Soviet performers and collective farmers,... [full description]

CD [3219-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa madrugada del panadero; Don Lindon de Almeria (ballet suites). Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid/Jose Ramon Encinar.

Author: Halffter, Rodolfo

Published: 2004

Of Prussian ancestry, Rodolfo Halffter was born in Madrid in 1900 and won an early reputation as a composer. In 1935 he... [full description]

CD [2353-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes malheurs de Sophie; Les bosquets de Cythere. Ulster Orchestra/Thierry Fischer.

Author: Francaix, Jean

Published: 2004

Two first recordings: Les malheurs de Sophie is a light hearted ballet, composed in 1935 and based on a... [full description]

CD [3916-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageManon, complete ballet. Royal Opera House Orchestra/Richard Bonynge. [2 CD set.]

Author: Massenet, Jules

Published: 2002

The Leighton Lucas arrangement of Massenet for Kenneth MacMillan's ballet.

CD [2828-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Master and Margarita, excerpts. Moldavian Philharmonic/Goya.

Author: Lazarev, Eduard

Published: 1995

Excerpts from a 1985 Estonian ballet.

CD [0337-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Miracle in the Gorbals, complete ballet. Queensland Symphony Orchestra/Lyndon-Gee.

Author: Bliss, Sir Arthur

Published: 1999

Robert Helpmann choreographed and starred in this twentieth-century parable: a Christ figure returns to the slums of... [full description]

CD [3119-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet); Dance Suite; Hungarian Pictures. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Marin Alsop.

Author: Bartok, Bela

Published: 2005

This is the complete version of Bartok's menacing and melodramatic score, including the choral part.

CD [3659-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes Noces, and other choral music. Voronezh Choir, New London Chamber Choir and Ensemble/James Wood.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

Sung in Russian.

CD [3223-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageLes Noces; Oedipus Rex. Soloists, Ensembles, Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Craft.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published: 2004

Two of Stravinsky's masterpieces are here conducted by his long-time associate and amanuensis Robert Craft. The speaker... [full description]

CD [0201-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


The Nutcracker (complete ballet). Kirov Orchestra/Gergiev.

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 1998

The only complete version of The Nutcracker to fit on a single CD, an exhilarating but very fast perfomarmance, better... [full description]

CD [3324-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Nutcracker (complete ballet); Offenbach: Le Papillon (excerpts). National Philharmonic Orchestra/Bonynge. [2 CDs].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

The fill up to this complete recording of Nutcracker is the only recording of Offenbach's ballet Le... [full description]

CD [2889-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Nutcracker, complete ballet. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Dorati. [2 CD set.]

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

Dorati's 1975 recording, still sounding very well.The set also includes highlights from The Sleeping Beauty, with the... [full description]

CD [2527-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageOde, Union Pacific. Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Russian State Symphonic Cappella/Valeri Polyansky.

Author: Nabokov, Nicolas

Published: 2002

Complete recordings of two major and previously unrecorded Ballets Russes scores, both originally choreographed by... [full description]

CD [1445-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageOnegin, complete ballet. Staatsorchester Stuttgart/James Tuggle. [2 CD set.]

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 2000

The complete score of John Cranko's masterpiece, arranged from Tchaikovsky's music by Kurt-Heinze Stolze. Usefully, the... [full description]

CD [1923-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Orpheus in Town, complete ballet. Stockholm Royal Philharmonic/Andersson.

Author: Rosenberg, Hilding

Published: 1998

A 1938 ballet for the Royal Swedish Ballet by choreographer Julian Algo. A statue of Orpheus outside Stockholm Concert... [full description]

CD [0890-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imagePanambi; Estancia (complete ballets). London Symphony Orchestra/Gisele Ben-Dor.

Author: Ginastera, Alberto

Published: 2006

Complete recordings of two ballets by the Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera, both making use of native folk and... [full description]

CD [4865-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageParade and other Orchestral Music. French National Radio Orchestra/Manuel Rosenthal.

Author: Satie, Erik

Published:

The CD includes Satie's Parade, Trois petite pièces montées, En habit de cheval and the third... [full description]

CD [5523-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Parade, Mercure, Relache, Cinema, Trois Gymnopedies. Orchestre Symphonique de Nancy/Kaltenbach.

Author: Satie, Erik

Published: 1999

CD [0434-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Parade, Mercure, Relache, Trois Gymnopedies, Trois Gnossiennes. New London Orchestra/Corp.

Author: Satie, Erik

Published: 1999

CD [3019-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageLe Pas d'Acier (The Steel Step); L'Enfant Prodigue (The Prodigal Son), complete ballets. USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

CD [4574-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageLe Pas d'Acier (The Steel Step); L'Enfant Prodigue (The Prodigal Son), complete ballets. WDR Sinfonieorchester/Michail Jurowski.

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 2003

CD [0761-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Path of Thunder, The Seven Beauties (suites). Moscow Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra/Rauf Abdullayev.

Author: Karayev, Kara

Published: 1992

Excerpts from two very Soviet ballets, dating from 1958 and 1952 respectively. The former tells of the forbidden love... [full description]

CD [3152-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Peer Gynt. Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra/Klas. [2 CDs].

Author: Schnittke, Alfred

Published:

CD [3210-CD] £ 25.99 Add to order


People who live in glass houses, etc. Razumovsky Symphony/Brion.

Author: Sousa, John Philip

Published: 1997

CD [0047-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imagePersephone. Nicole Tibbels, Paul Groves, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Sir Andrew Davis.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published: 2004

Stravinsky's 1934 melodrama, combining spoken text (in French, by André Gide) with solo tenor, chorus, and... [full description]

CD [4372-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imagePhedre; Le Peintre et son modele. Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Arturo Tamayo.

Author: Auric, Georges

Published: 2005

Phèdre was choreographed by Serge Lifar for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1950, to a libretto by Jean... [full description]

CD [4638-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Piano concerto no. 2. Bernd Glemser/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Antoni Wit.

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto is the music for Balanchine's 'Ballet Imperial', also known as 'Piano Concerto no.... [full description]

CD [3232-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imagePiano Sonata in b minor, piano and orchestral versions. Olga Kozlova; Orchestra of the Franz Liszt Music School Weimar/Nicolas Pasquet.

Author: Liszt, Franz

Published: 2008

Sir Frederick Ashton's ballet Marguerite and Armand set to an orchestrated version of Franz Liszt's only piano... [full description]

CD [5424-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imagePineapple Poll (complete ballet); Irish Symphony. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Sullivan, Arthur

Published: 2007

A generous coupling: Sir Charles Mackerras's arrangements of themes from the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to... [full description]

CD [5187-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Pineapple Poll (excerpts); Verdi: The Lady and the Fool (excerpts). London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras.

Author: Sullivan, Arthur

Published:

Excerpts from two of John Cranko's most popular ballets, in orchestral arrangements from the operas of Sullivan and... [full description]

CD [3226-CD] £ 6.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Prince of the Pagodas, complete ballet. London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen. [2 CD set].

Author: Britten, Benjamin

Published: 1990

Unlike the composer's own recording, which is fairly heavily cut, this performance is of the complete ballet.

CD [0207-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


The Prodigal Son Suite/Swedish Rhapsody no.3/etc. Stockholm Philharmonic/Jarvi.

Author: Alfven, Hugo

Published:

Music from Ivo Cramer's 1957 ballet.

CD [2817-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Prodigal Son. Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi.

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

A complete recording of the music from Balanchine's early masterpiece.

CD [3194-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imagePulcinella (complete ballet), Danses concertantes. Fiona Janes, Ian Bostridge, Henry Herford, Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Stefan Sanderling.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

CD [3242-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imagePunch and the Child, suite; Berners: The Triumph of Neptune, suite; Delius: Paris. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra etc./Sir Thomas Beecham.

Author: Arnell, Richard

Published:

Punch and the Child was choreographed by Fred Danielli for Ballet Caravan (this is its only recording), The Triumph of... [full description]

CD [3103-CD] £ 10.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Queen of Spades (symphonic suite)[ Music for Kim Brandstrup's 'Rushes'; On Guard for Peace. Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chrous/Neeme Järvi.

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 2009

An adaptation by Michael Berkeley of music from an unrealised film score by Prokofiev, used in Kim Brandstrup's ballet... [full description]

CD [5618-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Quest (complete ballet), The Wise Virgins (suite). London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bryden Thomson.

Author: Walton, Sir William

Published:

CD [3230-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Quest (complete ballet); The Wise Virgins (suite). English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Walton, Sir William

Published: 2002

Two 1940s Frederick Ashton ballets, both choreographed for the Sadler's Wells Ballet. 'The Quest' presents the confilct... [full description]

CD [2070-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageRaymonda, complete ballet. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Evgeni Svetlanov. [2 CD set.]

Author: Glazunov, Alexander

Published:

Glazunov's famous 1898 ballet score, choreographed to a notoriously slender plot line by Marius Petipa. The music... [full description]

CD [5205-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Raymonda, complete ballet. Moscow Symphony Orchestra/Alexander Anissimov. [2 CDs].

Author: Glazunov, Alexander

Published:

A fine performance, very well recorded, and at super-bargain price.

CD [3140-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


The Red Poppy (complete). St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra/Anichanov. [2 CDs].

Author: Gliere, Reinhold

Published:

How the dancer Tao-Hoa is exploited by the vicious capitalist Li Shan-fu, and gives her life to save the leader of the... [full description]

CD [2978-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageRinaldo and Armida (complete ballet); Homage to the Queen (suite). Royal Aarhus Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra/Douglas Bostock.

Author: Arnold, Sir Malcolm

Published: 2002

An important recording: the first ever of Sir Malcolm Arnold's dramatic score for Sir Frederick Ashton's lost ballet... [full description]

CD [2076-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Rio Grande, excerpts from Horoscope, Les Patineurs, Ballabile, Apparitions, etc. Philharmonia Orchestra, etc./Constant Lambert.

Author: Lambert, Constant

Published: 2005

Historical recordings from the 1930s and 1940s, with the composer conducting his own compositions and arrangements (the... [full description]

CD [4530-CD] £ 4.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Rite of Spring, Petrushka (1947 version), Pulcinella*, complete ballets; The Firebird (suite). Philadelphia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Marriner*.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

Classic recordings from the 1970s and 1980s, still sounding very well, and now at super-bargain price.

CD [4712-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Rite of Spring, Petrushka, complete ballets. London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Eugene Goossens.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

A useful and generous coupling, and one of some historic interest, as Sir Eugene Goossens, as a very young man,... [full description]

CD [5526-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Rite of Spring; The Nightingale. London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Craft; Olga Trifonova, Robert Tear, Paul Whelan, Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Craft.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

CD [1684-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


The River, excerpts. Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.

Author: Ellington, Duke

Published:

An orchestral suite from Alvin Ailey's 1970 ballet for American Ballet Theatre. The CD also contains William Grant... [full description]

CD [3133-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageLe roi nu (The Naked King); Les demoiselles de la nuit. Ulster Orchestra/Thierry Fischer.

Author: Francaix, Jean

Published: 2005

Le roi nu, commissioned by Serge Lifar and first staged by him for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1936 was also... [full description]

CD [3348-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Romeo and Juliet (excerpts). Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic/Mogrelia.

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 1990

CD [0125-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageRomeo and Juliet, complete ballet. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Gennadi Rozdhestvensky. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

A famous performance, in good mono sound.

CD [4573-CD] £ 24.99 Add to order


Romeo and Juliet, complete ballet. Cleveland Orchestra/Maazel. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

A very well recorded and strongly played recording of the complete ballet.

CD [3196-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageRomeo and Juliet, complete ballet. London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

A classic performance in warm recorded sound: a great bargain.

CD [3197-CD] £ 7.99 Add to order


Romeo and Juliet, complete ballet. National Symphony of the Ukraine/Mogrelia. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

The cheapest recording of the complete ballet: a very good performance, despite some occasional orchestral roughness.

CD [3198-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Romeo and Juliet, complete ballet. Royal Opera House Orchestra/Mark Ermler. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 1994

CD [0663-CD] £ 28.99 Add to order


Cover imageRomeo and Juliet, complete ballet. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 2003

CD [2019-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Romeo and Juliet, Pomona. State Orchestra of Victoria/Lanchbery.

Author: Lambert, Constant

Published: 2001

Two of Lambert's earliest works, both written for Bronislava Nijinska to choreograph.

CD [0211-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageRomeo and Juliet, Prize Fight. English Northern Philharmonia/David

Author: Lambert, Constant

Published: 2005

Two early ballets by Constant Lambert. Prize Fight was written in 1924, but never staged and not performed (in a... [full description]

CD [1657-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Rudepoema, 3 dances. Slovak Radio Symphony/Duarte.

Author: Villa-Lobos

Published:

CD [3241-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageSappho von Mitilene (suite); Das Zauberschloss (suite). London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley.

Author: Hummel, Johann Nepomuk

Published: 2007

Excerpts from two long forgotten ballets by the 19th century Viennese composer, both written for Giulio Vigano, brother... [full description]

CD [5053-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageScheherazade. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham.

Author: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Published:

An old recording, but still the best performance, and in very good stereo sound. (Fokine's choreographic version omits... [full description]

CD [0060-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Scottish, Irish, Cornish, English Dances (with Solitaire). Philharmonia Orchestra/Thomson.

Author: Arnold, Sir Malcolm

Published:

Kenneth MacMillan used Malcolm Arnold's English Dances, with two interpolations, for his ballet Solitaire. This is the... [full description]

CD [3105-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageScuola di Ballo, etc. The Ulster Orchestra/Thierry Fischer.

Author: Francaix, Jean

Published: 2002

The first complete recording of Francaix's delectable re-working of Boccherini for Massine's one act comedy ballet. The... [full description]

CD [2184-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Seagull. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Lazarev.

Author: Shchedrin, Rodion

Published:

A 1980 Bolshoi Ballet production in two acts, based on Chekhov's play, starring and choreographed by Maya Plisetskaya.

CD [3213-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageSebastian (suite); Barber: Souvenirs. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Schenck.

Author: Menotti, Gian Carlo

Published:

Excerpts from Menotti's 1944 ballet, commissioned by the Marquis de Cuevas, a strong score which deserves to be better... [full description]

CD [3163-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Serenade for strings, Souvenir de Florence. Vienna Chamber/Entremont.

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

CD [3233-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Les Sirenes, Cupid and Psyche. RTE Sinfoniette/Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Berners, Lord

Published:

Two of Frederick Ashton's less successful ballets, but the scores, in gentle English neoclassical/pastoral style, have... [full description]

CD [3114-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


The Sleeping Beauty (slightly cut). Philharmonia Orchestra/Weldon. [2 CDs].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

CD [3235-CD] £ 10.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Sleeping Beauty, (complete ballet - live performance). BBC Symphony Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 2002

Rozhdestvensky's legendary live London concert performance of 1979. There are a few minor cuts, and the speeds are on... [full description]

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Cover imageThe Sleeping Beauty, (complete ballet). Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev. [2 CD set.]

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

CD [4804-CD] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Sleeping Beauty, complete ballet. State Academic St Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra/Victor Fedotov. [2 CD set].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 2001

A complete performance of one of the great ballet scores, by one of the world's great ballet conductors.

CD [1341-CD] £ 21.99 Add to order


The Sleeping Beauty. Concertgebouw Orchestra/Dorati. [2 CDs].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

CD [3234-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageSoleriana. Asturias Symphony Orchestra/Maximiano Valdes.

Author: Rodrigo, Joaquin

Published: 2002

A 40 minute ballet score, composed in 1953 for the Spanish dancer Antonio's company. The score is an evocation of... [full description]

CD [2170-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Spalicek, complete ballet. Brno State Philharmonic/Jilek. [2 CDs].

Author: Martinu, Bohuslav

Published:

CD [1199-CD] £ 27.99 Add to order


Spartacus (complete ballet). Deutsches Symphony Orchestra/Jurowski. [2 CDs].

Author: Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich

Published: 1998

The 1968 Bolshoi version, including a chorus in some sections.

CD [2479-CD] £ 25.99 Add to order


Spartacus (Suites Nos. 1-3). St. Petersburg State Symphony/Anichanov.

Author: Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich

Published:

CD [2850-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Spartacus ballet suites 1-3. Scottish National/Jarvi.

Author: Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich

Published:

Powerful performances, sumptuously recorded.

CD [3156-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageSpartacus, complete ballet. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra/Algis Zhuraitis. [3 CD set.]

Author: Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich

Published: 1974, 2008

The original, and best, complete recording, made in 1974 but still in very good sound.

CD [5658-CD] £ 35.99 Add to order


The Stone Flower, complete ballet. Bolshoi Theatre/Rozhdestvensky. [2 CDs].

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published:

A famous recording, dating from the late 1960s, in sound which is still very acceptable.

CD [3199-CD] £ 24.99 Add to order


The Stone Flower, complete ballet. Hannover Radio Philharmonic/Jurowsk

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 1998

Prokofiev's last full-length ballet.

CD [0001-CD] £ 27.99 Add to order


Cover imageStravinsky, the great ballets - Firebird, Petrushka, Rite of Spring, Apollo. London Philharmonic/Haitink.

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published:

CD [3030-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


A Streetcar named Desire; Rosenstock: The Legend of John Henry. New York Theatre Ensemble/Rosenstock.

Author: North, Alex

Published: 1991

CD [1291-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order


Suites from Coppelia, Sylvia, La Source. Slovak Radio Symphony/Lenard.

Author: Delibes, Leo

Published:

CD [3130-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Suites nos. 3 (Theme and variations) & 4 (Mozartiana). National Symphony of Ireland/Sanderling.

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

CD [3236-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageSuites, Dances & Intermezzi. Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Michail Jurowski.

Author: Lehar, Franz

Published: 2001

A collection of dance and ballet excerpts from Lehar's operettas, including a complete short children's ballet from... [full description]

CD [4654-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageSur le Borysthene, Lieutenant Kije suite, Semyon Kotko suite. WDR Sinfonieorchester/Michail Jurowski.

Author: Prokofiev, Sergei

Published: 2003

CD [3984-CD] £ 19.99 Add to order


Swan Lake (complete ballet). Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ozawa. [2 CDs].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 1979

CD [0568-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake (complete ballet). Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Dmitry Yablonsky [2 CDs - SACD version].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

The Super Audio CD version of this fine performance, playable on both SACD and ordinary CD players. However, listeners... [full description]

CD [4320-CD] £ 18.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake (complete ballet). Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Dmitry Yablonsky [2 CDs].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published: 2002

A fine performance in a good modern recording. Like all current Swan Lake recordings it is of Tchaikovsky's... [full description]

CD [2434-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake, complete ballet. Maryinsky Theatre Orchestra/Victor Fedotov. [2 CD set].

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

This recording has the great advantage of being of the 1895 performing version, i.e. the ballet as it is most usually... [full description]

CD [2954-CD] £ 21.99 Add to order


Cover imageSwan Lake, complete ballet. USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Evgeni Svetlanov. [3 CD set.]

Author: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Published:

A famous recording from 1988, by one of the great Russian conductors.

CD [5063-CD] £ 29.99 Add to order


Cover imageLa Sylphide (complete ballet). Royal Danish Orchestra/David Garforth.

Author: Lovenskiold, Herman Severin

Published: 1986, 1991

The performing edition based on that currently used by the Royal Danish Ballet, including some additional material here... [full description]

CD [2882-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageSylvia, complete ballet; Saint-Saens: Henry VIII ballet music. Razumovsky Sinfonia/Mogrelia. [2 CDs].

Author: Delibes, Leo

Published:

CD [3129-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageTales of Beatrix Potter. Royal Opera House Orchestra/John Lanchbery.

Author: Lanchbery, John

Published:

A clever and light-hearted compilation by John Lanchbery, using music ranging from 19th century ballet scores to music... [full description]

CD [2757-CD] £ 4.99 Add to order


Cover imageTeodora, excerpts. Volgograd Philharmonic/Frontalini.

Author: Marenco, Romualdo

Published: 1999

Excerpts from the 1889 ballet choreographed by Raffaele Grassi.

CD [1440-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Thomas Jensen conducts Lumbye. Tivoli Symphony Orchestra.

Author: Lumbye, Hans Christian

Published:

Celebrated recordings from the early 1940s. Includes Salut for August Bournonville, Finale from The Lifeguards at... [full description]

CD [1169-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Three Cornered Hat (El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Le Tricorne); Love, the Magician (El Amor Brujo). Alicia Nafe, Maria Jose Martos, Asturias Symphony Orchestra/Maximiano Valdes.

Author: de Falla, Manuel

Published: 2005

CD [3641-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Three Musketeers, excerpts. Northern Ballet Orchestra/John Pryce-Jones.

Author: Arnold, Sir Malcolm

Published: 2007

A selection from Northern Ballet Theatre's popular success, choreographed by David Nixon. The music is taken from... [full description]

CD [5169-CD] £ 9.99 Add to order


Tiresias, Pomona. English Northern Philharmonia/Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Lambert, Constant

Published: 1999

The only available recordings of one of Lambert's first ballets, and his last one, the much-maligned Tiresias. The... [full description]

CD [2980-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


The Triumph of Neptune, L'uomo dai baffi, Valses bourgeoises, Polka. English Northern Philharmonia/Lloyd-Jones.

Author: Berners, Lord

Published:

CD [3485-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageTryst; Veni, Veni Emmanuel. Ulster Orchestra/Takuo Yuasa.

Author: Macmillan, James

Published: 1998

Tryst is the music for Christopher Wheeldon's eponymous Royal Ballet work.

CD [1556-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Veil of Pierrette, Suite in F sharp minor, Variations on a Nursery Theme*. Howard Shelley*, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Matthias Bamert.

Author: Dohnanyi, Ernst von

Published: 1999

The Veil of Pierrette is a short, charming suite from an early ballet pantomime; the famous Nursery... [full description]

CD [1378-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


A Wedding Bouquet (choral version), Luna Park. RTE Sinfonietta/Alwyn.

Author: Berners, Lord

Published:

The original version, for chorus and orchestra, of Frederick Ashton's delicious comic masterpiece, Wedding Bouqet. Luna... [full description]

CD [3115-CD] £ 8.99 Add to order


Who is the most powerful in the world? Prague Symphony/Belohlavek.

Author: Martinu, Bohuslav

Published:

CD [0617-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Wise Virgins; Constant Lambert: Horoscope (complete recordings). BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth.

Author: Walton, Sir William

Published: 2004

The first ever complete recordings of the scores for two Ashton classics. (The Wise Virgins has been partly... [full description]

CD [4316-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Wooden Prince. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop.

Author: Bartok, Bela

Published: 2008

Bartok's 1917 'dance pantomime', first performed at the Budapest Opera, with choreography by Béla Balázs,... [full description]

CD [5352-CD] £ 5.99 Add to order


Cover imageWorks of Ivor Stravinsky. Various Orchestras/Igor Stravinsky. [22 CDs.]

Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Published: 2007

An almost unbelievable bargain: Stravinsky's virtually complete works, in performances conducted by the composer and... [full description]

CD [5157-CD] £ 24.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe Young Lady and the Hooligan. Symphonic Orchestra of Russia/Mark Gorenstein.

Author: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Published: 1993

Not an original Shostakovich score, but one pieced together by Levon Atovmyan from various ballet and other scores.... [full description]

CD [1794-CD] £ 15.99 Add to order



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