The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves. The stories of two French ballets - Giselle and Coppelia - and the three great ballets by Tchaikovsky are presented in engaging style by Jenny Agutter, who was herself a dancer before turning to acting.
These are tales of princes and princesses, of good fairies and bad witches, and, in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the brave soldier and Clara - but does it happen, or is it a dream?
And there is the music - the lovely melody from Swan Lake, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the waltzes and the richly atmospheric passages painting, in sound, castles, forests, mists and lakes.
Canterbury Tales - Volume III, TheGeoffrey ChaucerNarrator : Full Cast PerformancePublisher : NAXOSRuntime : 3 hours 35 minutesCategories : Poetry
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Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young DogDylan ThomasNarrator : VariousPublisher : BBC Audiobooks LtdRuntime : 1 hourCategories : Short Stories
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Classic Women's Short StoriesVariousNarrator : Full Cast ProductionPublisher : NAXOSRuntime : 2 hours 40 minutesCategories : Short Stories
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Dubliners - Part OneJames JoyceNarrator : Jim NortonPublisher : NAXOSRuntime : 3 hours 20 minutesCategories : Classics
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