Top 10 Favorite Ballets

[kyjo]

Please......just one more top 10 thread! In no particular order (with one per composer):

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Stravinsky: The Firebird
VW: Job: A Masque for Dancing
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Debussy: Jeux
de Falla: El amor brujo
Ginastera: Estancia
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariadne
Bartok: The Wooden Prince
Szymanowski: Harnasie

Honorable mentions: Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Shostakovich: The Golden Age, Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, Villa-Lobos: Uirapuru, Tubin: Kratt, Tveitt: Baldur's Dreams, Karayev: In the Path of Thunder, Gliere: The Red Poppy, Khachaturian: Spartacus, Glazunov: The Seasons, Martinu: Spalicek, Nosyrev: Song of Triumphant Love, Bliss: Adam Zero

[Mirror Image]

Now this is something I can participate in and not complain about! My 10 favorite ballets (in no particular order) and some no doubt will match Kyle's:

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps
Shostakovich: The Golden Age
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariadne (but I could have gone just as easily with Le festin de l'araignée)
Prokofiev: Le pas d'acier
Ginastera: Estancia
Pierne: Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied
Schnittke: Peer Gynt
Copland: Dance Panels
W. Schuman: Undertow

[kyjo]

Shostakovich: The Golden Age
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariadne (but I could have gone just as easily with Le festin de l'araignée)

Ah, that's what I was forgetting, the good ol' Golden Age! Yes, I could've easily went with Le festin de l'araignée as well. Another one I forgot was Respighi's Belkis, Queen of Sheba, with its thrilling War Dance.

P.S. No Job, John?

[Daverz]

Please......just one more top 10 thread! In no particular order (with one per composer):

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Stravinsky: The Firebird
VW: Job: A Masque for Dancing
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Debussy: Jeux
de Falla: El amor brujo
Ginastera: Estancia
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariadne
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
Copland: Appalachian Spring

Honorable mentions: Shostakovich: The Golden Age, Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, Villa-Lobos: Uirapuru, Tubin: Kratt, Tveitt: Baldur's Dreams, Karayev: In the Path of Thunder, Gliere: The Red Poppy, Khachaturian: Spartacus, Glazunov: The Seasons, Martinu: Spalicek, Nosyrev: Song of Triumphant Love, Bliss: Adam Zero

I'd include more Prokofiev, at least Cinderella.  I don't know the Nosyrev, and haven't gotten to the Tveitt.  I don't like Job much.

[kyjo]

I'd include more Prokofiev, at least Cinderella.  I don't know the Nosyrev, and haven't gotten to the Tveitt.  I don't like Job much.

I was limiting myself to one work per composer. Had I not done so, I would have included Prokofiev's Cinderella and On the Dnieper and Stravinsky's Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. Here's the link to the Nosyrev, a meltingly lyrical, exotic work:

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Judging from what I've read about his life, Nosyrev suffered even more under Stalin's regime than did Shostakovich!

[Mirror Image]

P.S. No Job, John?

I love Job, but it hasn't fallen under my radar in quite some time. Again, I simply can't be all inclusive with these kinds of lists. I listed some long-time favorites and listed some recent favorites.

[North Star]

Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu, Sacre, Les noces, Agon
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Debussy: Jeux
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
Szymanowski: Harnasie

[kyjo]

Szymanowski: Harnasie

Why is it that I keep forgetting Szymanowski in my lists? I think I'll replace Appalachian Spring with Harnasie.

[Karl Henning]

Judging from what I've read about his life, Nosyrev suffered even more under Stalin's regime than did Shostakovich!

Well, truly, that was no horse race either. Those angels weep who weigh the suffering of mortals.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Yes, I agree that if we might choose only one, it must be the Op.64.

[North Star]

Why is it that I keep forgetting Szymanowski in my lists? I think I'll replace Appalachian Spring with Harnasie.

Well, it's good that I can remind you

Yes, I agree that if we might choose only one, it must be the Op.64.

Plenty of other excellent ballets, but they're not even close really.

[Brahmsian]

Ooooh!  I will be participating in this thread.  One of my favourite mediums of Classical Music. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake.
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet.
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring.
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé.
Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba.
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin.
Szymanowski: Harnasie.
Glazunov: The Seasons.

[Sergeant Rock]

Please......just one more top 10 thread! In no particular order (with one per composer):

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Stravinsky: The Firebird
VW: Job: A Masque for Dancing
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Debussy: Jeux
de Falla: El amor brujo
Ginastera: Estancia
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariadne
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
Szymanowski: Harnasie

Honorable mentions: Copland: Appalachian Spring, Shostakovich: The Golden Age, Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, Villa-Lobos: Uirapuru, Tubin: Kratt, Tveitt: Baldur's Dreams, Karayev: In the Path of Thunder, Gliere: The Red Poppy, Khachaturian: Spartacus, Glazunov: The Seasons, Martinu: Spalicek, Nosyrev: Song of Triumphant Love, Bliss: Adam Zero

You know, Kyjo, you always cheat. You never list just 10 in your Top 10 threads    In this case you've given us your Top 23 Favorite Ballets 

Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Some of us make the hard choices!!  

Lovenskiold: La Sylphide (I think this is my #1)
Minkus: la Bayedere
Delibes: Coppelia
Glazunov: Raymonda
Adam: Giselle
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Prokofiev: Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

[Brian]

Hmmm. This list is 90% French/Russian.

Copland: Rodeo (complete uncut version)
Khachaturian: Gayaneh
Offenbach/Rosenthal: Gaîté Parisienne
Pierne: Cydalise et le chèvre-pied
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Ravel: Ma mère l'oye
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

Unpopular opinion alert!!: I do not like The Nutcracker except a few highlight bits.

[TheGSMoeller]

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet; On The Dnieper; The Prodigal Son
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin

That's all I can think of right now, wait did Strauss write a ballet? Oh yes he did ....

Strauss: Josephslegende

[North Star]

Ravel: Ma mère l'oye

I knew I forgot something.   

Revised list:

Stravinsky: L'oiseau de feu Sacre, Les noces, Agon
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Debussy: Jeux
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
Szymanowski: Harnasie
Ravel: Ma mère l'oye

[Sergeant Rock]

A baker's dozen...plus one two 

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker
Schnittke Peer Gynt
Stravinsky Le sacre du printemps
Stravinsky Le baiser de la fée
Stravinsky Agon
Strauss Josephslegende
Vaughan Williams Job
Copland Rodeo
Piston The Incredible Flutist
Hindemith The Four Temperaments
Satie Parade
Bernstein Fancy Free
Elena Kats-Chernin Wild Swans

[Brian]

Lovenskiold: La Sylphide (I think this is my #1)

I've never even heard of this composer! Listening now!