Ballet Adagios (2009)

CD1
1. The Sleeping Beauty, Op.66 - Act 1 - Rose Adagio	National Philharmonic Orchestra	6:34
2. Le Carnaval des Animaux - Le Cygne	Nicholas Cleobury	3:20
3. La Vièrge - The Last Sleep of the Virgin	Raymond Agoult	5:05
4. Les Sylphides - Nocturne	Richard Bonynge	6:08
5. Faust, Ballet Music - Adagio	Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra	4:03
6. Love's Dream After The Ball	Richard Bonynge	4:48
7. Coppélia / Tableau 3 - Peace	L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande	4:40	
8. The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) - Ballet (1910) - Lullaby of the Firebird	Antal Doráti	4:40
9. Valse très lente	National Philharmonic Orchestra	4:28
10. Matinées Musicales (Second suite of five movements from Rossini) - Nocturne	
National Philharmonic Orchestra	3:00 play
11. Le Beau Danube - Orchestrated: Roger Desormière - Andantino - Tempo di Valse...	
Richard Bonynge	5:59
12. Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op.42 - Melody	Richard Bonynge	4:09
13. Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 - Act 3 - The Last Farewell	Charles Dutoit	9:31

CD2
1. Thaïs - Méditation	Richard Bonynge	5:42
2. Spartacus - Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia	Wiener Philharmoniker	9:05
3. Les Sylphides - Waltz	Richard Bonynge	4:22                               play
4. Swan Lake, Op.20 - Act 3 - The Black Swan	Richard Bonynge	9:31
5. Le roi de Lahore, Opera in five Acts - Entr'acte Act V & Adagio & Waltz, Ballet Act III	
Richard Bonynge	7:13
6. The Nutcracker / Act 2 - No. 13 Waltz of the Flowers	Charles Dutoit	6:49
7. Gayaneh - Gayaneh's Adagio	Wiener Philharmoniker	4:15
8. Scènes Alsaciennes - Suite No.7 for Orchestra - 1. Dimanche matin	
National Philharmonic Orchestra	8:00
9. Cinderella, Op.87 - Valse	Vladimir Ashkenazy	5:19	
10. Swan Lake, Op.20 - Act 1 - No.9 Finale (Andante)	Charles Dutoit	2:56

Ballet Adagios is a double-disc collection of dances and excerpts from ballets that generally have slow tempos and lyrical expressions as common features. Taken from Decca's backlist of recordings made between 1960 and 1993, the selections represent the most famous ballet composers, necessarily featuring the most important of all -- Léo Delibes, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergey Prokofiev -- but also including composers whose operatic and instrumental music has significantly contributed to the dance repertoire, such as Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns, Aram Khachaturian, Charles Gounod, and Johann Strauss II, among others. The performances by the world's leading orchestras are conducted by such prominent maestros as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Richard Bonynge, Antal Dorati, Charles Dutoit, and David Zinman, and the atmosphere created by these musicians is appropriately warm and romantic. Because recording technology changed dramatically over the years spanning these performances, the sound is a little variable in tone and background ambience, but all are quite clear and noise-free, and any traces of analog tape hiss are slight on the ADD tracks.

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