Product Review

From the exquisite elegance of Swan Lake to the riot-inducing dissonance of The Rite of Spring , these 5 CDs highlight the astonishing variety of colors, moods and tonalities that lie within the world of ballet music. Excerpts of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty , and The Nutcracker and Stravinsky's entire Firebird and The Rite of Spring join Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) Prokofiev; Faust: Ballet Music; Act 2 "Waltz" Gounod; Copp+ªlia Delibes, and Les Sylphides Chopin.