'L'Apres-midi d'un Faune' (Afternoon of a Faun)
Charles Jude as The Faun
Music by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky
Original design by Leon Bakst (in 1912)
Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello (1961)
Sir Charles Groves, conductor
'Allegretto' (opening) from "Concerto for
Violoncello and Orchestra in E-flat major, Op.107'
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
London Symphony Orchestra
Errol Garner, piano (1921-1977)
Eddie Calhoun, bass/Kelly Martin, drums
'Spring is here' (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)
'It might as well be Spring'
(Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein) and.
'Lover' (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)
Music by Richard Rogers (1902-1979)
Xu Ke, erhu instrument soloist
'Opposition to an Arranged Marriage'
from "The Butterfly Lovers" (Erhu Concerto)
The Philharmonic of China
Mak Ka Lok, Conductor
Music by Chen Gang & He Zhan-Mao
"Carmina Burana"
'Opening' (O Fortuna)
Music by Carl Orff (1895-1982)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (1975)
Igor Stravinsky, conductor (1965)
'Lullaby and Final Hymn' from the
"Firebird Ballet Suite" (1945 version)
Music by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
"Die Winterreise" (The Winter Journey)
'Der Lindenbaum' (words by Wilhelm Muller)
Music by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Brigitte Fassbender, mezzo-soprano
Wolfram Rieger, piano
A film by Petr Wiegl
Marian Lapsansky & Peter Toperczer, pianos
'The Aquarium' from "Carnival of Animals"
Music by Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard, conductor
'Vocalise' by Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Painting (La Grande Jatte) by Georges Seurat
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Helene Grimaud, piano
'Opening' (excerpt) from "Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54"
Music by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin