Product Details

• Actors: Rudolf Nureyev, Maria Tallchief, Jacques D'Amboise
• Directors: Voice of Firestone
• Format: Black & White, Classical, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Run Time: 49 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0013N3LIQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,855 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #83 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Caprices

Editorial Reviews

For more than thirty years, The Voice of Firestone brought the world's greatest artists into the homes of music lovers. Now, through a special arrangement with the New England Conservatory in Boston, Kultur is proud to make these rare telecasts available.

Among the treasures from the Firestone archives are Rudolf Nureyev's American television solo debut; the legendary team of Jacques D'Amboise and Melissa Hayden; the brilliant Maria Tallchief; Carla Fracci in a rare Pas de Quatre set to the music of Pugni; as well as principal dancers of the Royal Danish Ballet and a performance by the Ballet Espanol Ximenes-Vargas.

Ballet Espanol Ximenes-Vargas: Andalusian Dances 12/2/62
Maria Tallchief: Variations after Degas
(Music: Debussy; Choreography: Starbuck) 10/14/62

Maria Tallchief and Oleg Tupine: Caprice
(Music: Rossini, Arr. Britten; Choreography: Pagent) 4/14/63

Rudolph Nureyev: Variation from The Sleeping Beauty
(Music: Tchaikovsky) 6/2/63

Rudolph Nureyev: Variation from Gayne
(Music: Khachaturian) 6/2/63

Kirsten Simone and Henning Kronstam: Pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty
(Music: Tchaikovsky) 6/9/63

Carla Fracci: Variation from Pas de quatre
(Music: Pugni : Choreography: Perrot) 11/18/62

Jacques D'Amboise and Melissa Hayden: Pas de deux
(Music: Tchaikovsky; Choreography: George Balanchine, © The George Balanchine Trust) 12/16/62)

Jacques D'Amboise and Melissa Hayden: Pas de deux from Don Quixote
(Music: Minkus; Choreography: D Amboise, after Petipa) 3/10/63

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money!, September 6, 2008

By 

J. W. Ramsey (Katy, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Firestone Dances: Historic Ballet Performances (DVD)

This DVD is of exceedingly poor quality, both visual and sound. The selections, while of note and fame, are unevenly danced and poorly photographed. It is hard to imagine a Nureyev performance being less than wonderful......but.....these are. All in all, i'd have been happier buying a latte and re-watching another DVD.