The Times 100: Dance

The Times 100: Dance

The Times and The Sunday Times

Music with an irresistible pulse, chosen by Times and Sunday Times critics

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op.  92
IV. Allegro con brio
Vienna Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber
Johann Strauss II
An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 · “The Blue Danube”
An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314
Vienna Philharmonic, Willi Boskovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Swan Lake, Op.  20, TH 12
No. 8, Danse des coupes. Tempo di polacca
Vladimir Jurowski, Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Igor Stravinsky
Le Sacre du printemps, K15 · “The Rite of Spring”
IX. Danse de la terre
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
Maurice Ravel
La valse, M.  72
La Valse, M. 72
John Wilson, Sinfonia of London
Alberto Ginastera
Estancia, Op. 8
II. Danza final. Malabo
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
VII. As at first (slowly)
John Wilson, BBC Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story, Symphonic Dances
VII. Fugue, "Cool"
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Missy Mazzoli
Orpheus Undone
Pt. 1: Behold the Machine, O Death
Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, Tim Weiss
Thomas Adès
Dante
III. The Ferryman
Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel

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