Minkus

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

BBC Music Magazine

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:06 pm

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

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