Following an exceptional release of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra returns to ballet music with its 2010 recording of The Sleeping Beauty, conducted by Barry Wordsworth. In many ways a superior work to Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky's second great ballet boasts a polished score that is filled with sophisticated melodies, lush harmonies, and dazzling orchestration that Tchaikovsky arguably never surpassed. This double-disc recording presents the most famous selections from the work, which in ...
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Following an exceptional release of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra returns to ballet music with its 2010 recording of The Sleeping Beauty, conducted by Barry Wordsworth. In many ways a superior work to Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky's second great ballet boasts a polished score that is filled with sophisticated melodies, lush harmonies, and dazzling orchestration that Tchaikovsky arguably never surpassed. This double-disc recording presents the most famous selections from the work, which in its full version would run close to four hours, but the reduced version includes all of the best-known dances. Yet as enjoyable as this performance is, it has an underwhelming sound quality that is not as colorful nor as vivid as the recording of Swan Lake, and requires a fairly high volume setting to clearly hear details. For a comparable shortened version, André Previn's "ballet edition" on EMI gives this twofer serious competition by offering better sound, more tracks, and a much...
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Add this copy of Sleeping Beauty to cart. $15.99, like new condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by RPO.
