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Piano-Rag-Music (Martins), to music by Igor Stravinsky, 1982; Pictures at an Exhibition, to music by Modest Mussorgsky, 2014; Pillar of Fire, to music by Arnold Schoenberg, 1942; Pineapple Poll, to music by Arthur Sullivan, 1951; Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet!, to music by Arthur Sullivan, 1991; Plainspoken, David Lang, 2010
The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music is a compilation of classical works recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor David Parry. [2] Recorded at Abbey Road Studios , Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London, the compilation was released in digital formats in November, 2009 and as a 4-CD set in 2011. [ 3 ]
Part of unperformed collaborative ballet-opera-spectacle by Cui (Act 1), Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (Acts 2 and 3), and Borodin (Act 4), with ballet music by Minkus. Borodin used material from his unfinished Prince Igor as the basis for Act 4. Finale orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov as a concert piece (1892)
Les Sylphides (French: [le silfid]) is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.. The ballet, described as a "romantic reverie", [1] [2] is frequently cited as the first ballet to be simply about mood and dance. [1]
Perhaps the best-known example of ballet music that is part of an opera is the Dance of the Hours from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda (1876). There was a violent change in mood when Igor Stravinsky 's ballet The Rite of Spring was first performed in 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
This was the first full movie score composed and orchestrated by Gershwin, excluding the score for Delicious which was almost completely rejected by Fox Studios. This massive score includes a final extended 8-minute orchestral passage based on the title song with an intriguing coda hinting at Gershwin forging a new musical path. Hoctor's Ballet.
The Song of the Earth is a ballet based on Das Lied von der Erde, a symphonic work written by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in 1908–1909. It is scored for two voices and orchestra, and has been used for ballets by several well-known choreographers, including Antony Tudor (1908–1987), Kenneth MacMillan (1929–1992), Heinz Spoerli ...
Ballets to the music of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1 P) Ballets by Walter Piston (1 P) Ballets by Francis Poulenc (6 P) Ballets to the music of Prince (musician) (1 P)