COMPOSERS: Minkus
LABELS: VAI
ALBUM TITLE: Don Quixote
PERFORMER: Nadezhda Pavlova, Vyacheslav Gordeev; Bolshoi Ballet (Moscow, 1978)
CATALOGUE NO: 4407
Minkus’s and Petipa’s museum-piece, using Cervantes as a peg for virtuoso dancing, needs charisma – so skip the dimly-filmed Bolshoi production and watch Plisetskaya in the half-hour extra.
David Nice