Alexander Tcherepnin, Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky, Carl Maria von Weber, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Paul Dukas, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Florent Schmitt, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie, Ottorino Respighi, Manuel de Falla, Modest Mussorgsky, Georges Auric, Darius Milhaud, Sergei Prokofiev, Georg Friedrich Händel, Serge Diaghilev, Adolphe Charles Adam, Anatoly Liadov, Henri Sauguet
Featured artists:
Pierre Boulez, André Cluytens, Igor Markevitch, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Irving, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ida Haendel, London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Donohoe, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Jean Martinon, Emmanuel Pahud, Lovro von Matacic, Igor Markevitch, Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe, James Conlon, Lorin Maazel, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Victoria de los Angeles, Patrick Gallois, Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Ambrosian Singers, Georges Prêtre, Sir Thomas Beecham, Pierre Dervaux, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, Henry Shek, Douglas Cummings, Marin Alsop, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, The Hague Chamber Choir & Residentie Orchestra, Chœurs René Duclos, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Grand Orchestre Symphonique, Orchestre National de l’O.R.T.F.
A transformative force in music, dance and the visual arts, the Ballets russes was founded in Paris in 1909 by the visionary impresario Serge Diaghilev. Innovative and flamboyant, he had a genius for bringing together the most brilliant composers, dancers, choreographers and designers, for nurturing creativity, and for galvanising audiences. Emblematic of the influence of the Ballets russes was the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps: it caused a notorious scandal, but it also changed musical history. This 22CD set traces the company’s path through the 20 years of its existence – a tumultuous, but artistically fertile period – and comprises the vast majority of Ballets russes scores that have been recorded. Encompassing epoch-making works and rarities awaiting rediscovery, it offers a number of CD premieres and landmark interpretations by major musicians of the 78, LP and digital eras.
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