Russian Ballet Highlights features Russia's two most celebrated ballet companies, the Bolshoi and the Kirov, in extracts from five of the great ballets in their classical repertoire.
Recorded in Moscow and St. Petersburg, these performances show off, to the full, the skill of the Russian dancers and the magnificence of their productions.
THE KIROV BALLET
Giselle
Giselle's Solo
Myrtha and the Wilis
Galina Mezentseva • Tatyana Terekhova
Angelina Kabarova
The Sleeping Beauty
Bluebird Pas de deux
The Wedding Pas de deux
Irina Kolpakova • Sergei Berezhnoi
Yelena Yevtyeyeva • Andrei Garbuz
Le Corsair
Pas de trois
Altynai Asylmuratova
Faroukh Ruzimatov • Yevgeny Neff
THE BOILSHOI BALLET
The Golden Age
Rita and Yashka's Pas de deux
Natalia Bessmertnova • Gediminas Taranda
Spartacus
Gladiators' Dance
Irek Mukhamedov • Maria Bylova
Mikhail Tsivin • Mikhail Gabovich
