[12/11/2010] Preview: A sampling of our "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty" selections (continued)

And Sleeping Beauty from Tokyo too: Yevgeny Svetlanov conducts "the" waltz.


TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (continued)

Act III opening:
No. 15, Scene: March
No. 16, Dance of the Corps de Ballet and the Dwarfs
No. 17, Entrance of the Guests and Waltz
NBC Symphony Orchestra members, Leopold Stokowski, cond. RCA, recorded Oct. 1954-Feb. 1955


TCHAIKOVSKY: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66

I imagine my Sleeping Beauty choice has been reissued on CD -- it's hard to believe there's any stereo recording by Pierre Monteux that hasn't been -- but I don't have it. Monteux's selection, again, ranges the breadth of the ballet. Here are just a few morsels from it.

Introduction
Prologue: No. 1, March


Act II:
No. 13, Farandole and Mazurka
No. 17, Panorama
London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, cond. RCA/Decca, recorded June 1957


IN TOMORROW'S SUNDAY CLASSICS POST

As promised, we've got bunches of Swan Lake, a selection from Sleeping Beauty, and Tchaikovsky's own, ever-reliable Nutcracker Suite.


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