Number of Discs25
NotesThe 60-page booklet here sets the stage, as you read an extensive essay about ballet music from the 19th to the 20th centuries. Then, the curtain opens, and your ears are treated to a full 35 CDs of treasured ballet classics: Rossini's La Boutique Fantasque ; Weber's Invitation to the Dance ; Chopin's Les Sylphides ; Massenet's Manon ; Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella ; Glazunov's Seaons ; Ravel's Daphnis Et Chloe/Alborada/La Valse ; Offenbach's Gaite Parisienne ; Tchaikovsky's the Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and the Nutcracker, plus Khachaturian, Delibes, Verdi, Gounod, Strauss and more, conducted by Dorati, Maazel, Dutoit, Ashkenazy and others!