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THE ROYAL BALLET Gala Performances

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Under the Direction of Ernest Ansermet

LIVING STEREO

GATEFOLD COVER / 2 LPs / BOOKLET 24p

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a

Gioacchino Rossini: La Boutique Fantasque

Léo Delibes: Coppélia

Adolphe Charles Adam: Giselle

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20

Robert Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9

Orchestration Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a

Frédéric Chopin: Les Sylphides, Orchestration Roy Douglas

Recorded in London’s Kingsway Hall in 1957

Track Listing:

SIDE A: 

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (excerpts) 

01. March 
02. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 
03. Arabian Dance (Coffee) 
04. Chinese Dance (Tea) 
05. Dance of the Mirlitons 
06. Waltz of the Flowers 

ROSSINI: La Boutique Fantasque (excerpts) 

07. Tarantella 
08. Andantino mosso 
09. Can-Can 

SIDE B: 

LEO DELIBES: Coppelia (excerpts) 

01. Act 1: Prelude — Mazurka 
02. Introduction and Waltz 
03. Czardas (Danse hongroise) 
04. Act 2: Valse de la poupee 
ADAM: Giselle (excerpts) 
05. Act 1: Introduction and Waltz 
06. Act 2: Pas de deux and Variation 

SIDE C: 

TCHAIKOVSKY: SwanLake, Op. 20 (excerpts) 

01. Act 2: Scene (moderato) 
02. Danse des petits cygnes (moderato) 
03. Scene – Pas de deux 
Charles Taylor, solo violin 
04. Valse 
R. SCHUMANN: Carnaval, Op. 9 (excerpts) 
Orchestration Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov 

05. Pierrot 
06. Reconnaissance 
07. Pantalon et Colombine 
08. Aveu 

SIDE D: 

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a (excerpts) 

01. Introduction: Prologue — The Lilac Fairy 
02. Act 1: Rose Adagio 
03. Pas d’action – Valse 

CHOPIN: Les Sylphides (excerpts) 
Orchestration Roy Douglas 

04. Overture: Prelude in A, Op. 28 No. 7 
05. Mazurka in C, Op. 67, No. 3 
06. Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat, Op. 18