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• Ivan The Terrible - Prokofiev | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £9.26   |  Saving you £8.72 (139.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ballet in Two ActsIn 1942 Sergey Prokofiev was commissioned by Sergey Eisenstein to write music for his film Ivan the Terrible. The score caught the attention of highly acclaimed choreographer Yuri Grigorovich who set out to make the material and music into a self-contained ballet. But it took until the 1970s for the idea of this ambitious project to be put into action with the help of Mikhail I. Tchulaki director of the Bolshoi who composed a ballet score for the new production on the basis of Eisenstein's musical film material. The score of Ivan the Terrible is a collage of no less than 377 fragments of the original film score but also of other works by Prokofiev.

• Bolshoi Ballet In The Park - Divertisements | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In 1986 the Bolshoi Ballet toured the UK with this programme of Divertissements after an absence of 12 years. The tour was a spectacular success and proved the Bolshoi worthy of their description as the world s most famous ballet company. Their flamboyance and daring brilliance and technical execution are triumphantly displayed in this programme of excerpts from seven famous Bolshoi ballets which include Les Sylphides Spartacus The Sleeping Beauty La Bayad re Swan Lake Sprin

• Khachaturian: Spartacus (Timofeyeva, Liepa) | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £20.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (8.70%)   |  RRP £22.99

  An opera in 3 acts.