Principally arrangements of excerpts from ballets; includes works not originally composed for, but subsequently used in, ballets "The essential collection of ballet music for solo piano"--Cover. Pref. in English by Jayne Ramage. Distributor from label on cover.
Contents:
Giselle. Pas de deux / Adolphe Adam -- The damnation of Fause. Danse des Sylphes / Hector Berlioz -- Prince Igo. Theme / Alesandor Borodin -- Les Sylphides. Nocturne ; Waltz, op. 18 / Frédéric Chopin -- Coppelia. Czardas ; Valse lente / Léo Delibes -- Sylvia. Pizzicato / Léo Delibes -- Slavonic dances. No. 8 / Antonín Dvořák -- Orfeo. Dance of the blessed spirits / Christoph Willibald von Gluck -- La fille mal gardee. Clog dance / Louis Joseph Ferndinand Hérold -- Elite syncopations / Scott Joplin -- Gayane. Saber dance / Aram Khachaturian -- Cendrillon. Valse / Jules Massenet -- Don Quixote. Entrance of Kitri and Basilio / Léon Minkus -- La Gaite parisienne. The can-can / Jacques Offenbach -- Romeo and Juliet. Dance of the knights / Sergei Prokofiev -- Sheherazade. The young prince and the young princess / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- Carnival of the animals. The swan. The dying swan / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Samson and Delilah. Bacchanale / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Rosamunde. Entr'acte / Franz Schubert -- Pineapple poll. Grand finale / Arthur Sullivan -- The nutcracker. Dance of the sugar plum fairy ; March ; Danse des Mirlitons / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Romeo and Juliet. Fantasy overture / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- The sleeping beauty. Waltz / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Swan lake. Dance of the cygnets ; Theme ; Waltz / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Aida. Dance of the priestesses / Giuseppe Verdi.
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