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The heart of the ballet.
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977, conductor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballets--Excerpts.
- Ballets.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Ballets (Music)
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (42:23 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono ; 12 in.
- 12 in.
- Contained In:
- Stokowski-Gatewood Collection of Commercial Sound Recordings. Item 146
- Place of Publication:
- Camden, N.J. : RCA Victor, [between 1950 and 1959]
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- microgroove
- mono
- Contents:
- Giselle (4:03): Variation of Giselle ; Mad scene ; Memory of the love scene ; Despair of Loys ; Finale of Act I / Adam
- Le spectre de la rose: Invitation to the dance (9:02) / Weber
- Les sylphides: Prelude no. 7 in A (0:48) ; Waltz in G flat, op. 70, no. 2 (4:10) ; Mazuraka in C, op. 67, nos. 3 and 4 (2:15) ; Waltz no. 1 in E flat, op. 18 (2:18) / Chopin
- Sylvia: Valse lente (1:53) ; Pizzicato polka (1:48) / Delibes
- Swan lake: Dance of the snow queen (4:57) ; Dance of the little swans (4:51)
- The nutcracker: Waltz of the flowers (6:28) / Tchaikovsky.
- Participant:
- Michael Rosenker, violin (Adam) ; Julius Baker, flute (Weber) ; Robert Bloom, oboe (Swan lake) ; David Oppenehim, clarinet (Swan lake) ; John Corigliano, violin (Swan lake) ; Laszio Varga, cello (Swan lake) ; Lucile Lawrence, harp (Swan lake and Nutcracker) ; Leopold Stokowski conducting his symphony orchestra.
- Notes:
- Recorded May 1950.
- Program notes by Arthur Cohn on container.
- Red seal records.
- This recording was Record 285 in Gatewood's collection of recordings.
- Contains:
- Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856. Giselle. Selections
- Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826. Aufforderung zum Tanze; arranged
- Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Piano music. Selections; arranged
- Delibes, Léo, 1836-1891. Sylvia. Selections
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Shchelkunchik. Selections
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Lebedinoe ozero. Selections
- OCLC:
- 155933241
- Publisher Number:
- LM-1083 RCA Victor
- Access Restriction:
- Off-site storage: 24-hour retrieval.
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