Spandau Ballet – True (Live at Rome 02-03-2010)
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A to Z of Classical Music $7.42 Is it a two-CD set with a particularly thick booklet, or a 562-page book with a compilation album attached? Either way, the unpretentious text by Keith Anderson offers an introduction to the lives and works of dozens of composers, together with recommended recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs. Anderson includes a useful 59-page glossary of musical terms and an extensive listing of cla… |
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet $10.21 By the time Prokoviev came to write this great ballet in 1935, Russia was the only country that still had a tradition of “classical” ballet–that is, full-length works of several hours with a single coherent story line. Prokofiev’s model was Tchaikovsky, and like his predecessor, he encountered severe problems getting the work produced. The dancers thought the music too complicated and unsuita… |
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Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet)- Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn $16.84 It’s not a stretch to call Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn the most sublime of all dance partners and Sergei Prokofiev the most gifted 20th-century ballet composer. And so it goes without saying that the 1966 film version of the Royal Ballet production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet featuring Nureyev and Fonteyn as the star-crossed lovers is an absolute must-have for anyone who cares a whi… |
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Adam – Giselle / Carla Fracci, Rudolf Nureyev, Ida Menozzi, Mauro Maiorani, Patrizia Lollobrigida, Rome $29.78 Hardy Classics DVD HCD 4019 CARLA FRACCI, RUDOLPH NUREYEV, Corps de Ballet of the Rome Opera, Music: Adolphe Adam. 125 min., Color, Region 0… |
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