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Background

• A ballet composed between 1875 and 1876. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time.
• In two acts, based on Russian and German folk tales of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.
• Premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet on 4 March 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Choreographer: Julius Reisinger.

Recordings

• Complete Ballets. Swan Lake — Mariinsky Version
  Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
  Cond. Valery Gergiev · DECCA
  Radio 3 Building a Library (2019): Recommended Recording.

• Swan Lake
  State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov"
  Cond. Vladimir Jurowski · Pentatone
  Gramophone Magazine (2018): Editor's Choice
  Radio 3 (2018): Disc of the Week

• Complete Symphonies. Swan Lake Ballet Suite Op. 20
  Philadelphia Orchestra
  Cond. Riccardo Muti · Warner Classics
  Radio 3 Building a Library (2017): Recommended

• Ballet Suites: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker
  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  Cond. Mstislav Rostropovich · Deutsche Grammophon
  Penguin Guide (1996): Rosette

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