Includes index

Disc: Sleeping beauty ballet: Prologue and 3 acts, op. 66: Introduction -- Pas d'action -- Pas de deux variation -- Polacca -- Panorama -- Pas de deux coda -- Prologue -- Waltz / Munich Symphony Orchestra; Alexander von Pitamic, cond. -- Nutcracker suite op. 71A: Pas de deux variation 2, Dance of the sugar plum fairy -- Arabian dance -- Chinese dance -- Dance of the flutes -- Waltz of the flowers / Munich Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander von Pitamic, cond. -- Swan lake suite, op. 20: Dance of the swans -- Waltz -- Pas de deux -- Pas d'action -- Hungarian dance -- Final scene / Munich Symphony Orchestra; Henry Adolf, cond

A brief introduction to the history, personalities, and music of ballet

Music composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music performed by the Munich Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander von Pitamic, conductor ; Henry Adolf, conductor