Ondrej Lenard - Nutcracker Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty Highlights

1987 release with highlights from his famous ballets. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) performed by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra recorded at Concert Hall of the Slovak Philahrmonic June 20-25, 1987 & Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra recorded at Concert Hall of the Czecho-Slovak Radio in Bratislava October 13-20, 1987 conducted by Michael Halasz & Ondrej Lenard. The music of Tchaikovsky, in spite of the reservations of contemporaries at home and abroad, must seem to US both essentially Russian and firmly in the West European tradition. In Vienna the critic Eduard Hanslick was able to complain of the "trivial Cossack cheer" of the finale of the Violin Concerto, but in Russia Tchaikovsky never went far enough to please the self-appointed leader of musical nationalists, Balakirev. While by no means a miniaturist, he nevertheless excelled in his mastery of the smaller forms necessary in ballet, writing music that displayed his remarkable gifts of melody and skill in orchestration.

1) Nutcracker: Ouverture
2) Nutcracker: Marche
3) Nutcracker: Danse de la Fee
4) Nutcracker: Danse Russe
5) Nutcracker: Danse Arabe
6) Nutcracker: Danse Chinoise
7) Nutcracker: Danse Des Mirlitons
8) Nutcracker: Valse Des Fleurs
9) Swan Lake: Scene
10) Swan Lake: Valse
11) Swan Lake: Allegro
12) Swan Lake: Andante
13) Swan Lake: Tempo de Valse
14) Swan Lake: Danse Des Couples
15) Swan Lake: Danse Hongroise (Czardas)
16) Swan Lake: Danse Espagnole
17) Swan Lake: Danse Napolitaine
18) Swan Lake: Scene Finale
19) Sleeping Beauty: Introduction - the Lilac Fairy
20) Sleeping Beauty: Adagio - Pas D'action
21) Sleeping Beauty: Characteristic Dance
22) Sleeping Beauty: Panorama
23) Sleeping Beauty: Waltz